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Jun. 11th, 2006 05:23 pmAnother reason why Buffyverse can't be more than an alternate universe: Instead of the actual 10%, more than 90% of the Buffyverse inhabitants are working on Apple computers. Do you think Buffyverse Windows would coincidentaly be much more stable and less viable to virusses and other malfunctioning software? Or did only the designer hardware switch places and are they all running on Microsoft's operating system?
back to the future
Apr. 2nd, 2006 07:53 pmPerusing through books at Fnac my eye falls on one that shouldn't have been written yet. It's my name emblazoned in golden letters on the cover. The title's even the one that has been sitting in my head for years now – I don't recall for how long. It's one of those stories that'll never be written. I've always known that. Which editor would give his money to a story about love and hate, filled with passion, remorse and regret? The one that prints romance novels, I realise now, because that's where I found the book. A book that I don't remember writing.
My memory is failing me. That's the first thing that jumps into my mind. There must be a hole there, where only a nanosecond ago was a very coherent story about writing a book, finding an editor and having it published. I'm ill. I must be. It is the only valid explanation. It's either that or someone stole my identity.
Or I could turn around my whole Theory of Everything, that theory that makes me understand the world and shapes my belief in what'll happen. Apples do fall to the earth and not to the moon. What if, through the power of some weird quantumleap, my book, the one that's unwritten as of yet, comes back from the future? Particles can do that. What if a complete waste of paper did the same? Would I be able to change my beliefs of how the world works? Or would I go for the easy explanation: insanity? Would you?
(Special thanks to P. for providing the right question.)
My memory is failing me. That's the first thing that jumps into my mind. There must be a hole there, where only a nanosecond ago was a very coherent story about writing a book, finding an editor and having it published. I'm ill. I must be. It is the only valid explanation. It's either that or someone stole my identity.
Or I could turn around my whole Theory of Everything, that theory that makes me understand the world and shapes my belief in what'll happen. Apples do fall to the earth and not to the moon. What if, through the power of some weird quantumleap, my book, the one that's unwritten as of yet, comes back from the future? Particles can do that. What if a complete waste of paper did the same? Would I be able to change my beliefs of how the world works? Or would I go for the easy explanation: insanity? Would you?
(Special thanks to P. for providing the right question.)
