Feeling Stabby
I finished reading Solaris
Gross. and yes, embarrassing. Worse, it made it harder for me to separate the visuals in my head from having seen the movie (universally agreed to be horrible, but it’s probably better than a lot of movies in recent years).
This is slightly less gross and embarrassing but at least Solaris is a purple planet.
That’s construction paper, glue and scissors. This DIY project was a symptom of the space-crazies, or coming off days of solid marathon writing and I needed something silly to do. Don’t mock me today, I’m in a terrible mood because I hate people. I’d probably just stab someone with scissors or give them a spitefully bad haircut. You don’t want any of this, sucka.
Even Wil Wheaton is in a terrible mood today, and normally he’s pure sunshine.
[later]
My friend just sent this article to the class re Solaris, and I think it’s pretty cool.
Also more happy-making, my Marc Johns print arrived. Thanks for the tip, Kosta!
Speaking of purple… http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/purple-exed.png
that’s super funny. heheh I can hear the little kids in another apartment singing the Barney song often enough that i still HATE that thing.
curse Park Slope
i’m trying to think of a clever comment that plays on judging books by their cover, but i got nothing.
i do like your new cover, though.
heh I know Chrissy, I felt like it begged the same joke. Meanwhile I’m reading this scholarly article (2nd to last link above) and am thinking, if I looked at the cover, which book would i think is “an elaborate metaphor for the cultural and philosophical implications of scientific uncertainty for Western culture”?
The gross cover’s blurb made it sound like the WHOLE reason the book is worthwhile is that it was made into a movie. But how about this, which I think makes the book really tempting:
It can be read as a Swiftian satire, a tragic love story, a Kafkaesque existentialist parable, a metafictional parody of hermeneutics, a Cervantean ironic romance, and a Kantian meditation on the nature of human consciousness. But none of these readings is completely satisfactory, and Lem intended it to be so. The simultaneously incompatible and mutually reinforcing readings make the process of interpreting the text a metaphor for the scientific problem of articulating a manifestly paradoxical natural universe.
Chrissy, you just sorta gave me the idea to write my own blurb on the back. How funny is that? I’m a nyerd ;)
Glad I could inspire nerdiness in someone other than myself! Am now thinking of putting Solaris on my to-read list.
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