Monday, August 28, 2006

The seach is over(ish)

Warren Ellis writes:
I remember, as a kid, reading Doris Lessing’s foreword to her novel SHIKASTA and being struck by an aside comment: that the youth of “today” (1981) could not conceive of how wonderful the present was, where any book you could think of was there to be had “on a nearby shelf.” Soon, I will have to explain to my daughter, who, through her love of story and fantasy will soon be interested in fringe, “occult” knowledge, that part of the joy of seeking it out was the quest itself.

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Friday, August 04, 2006

Being CD

You readers have most likely noticed that i don't write a lot on this blog (not that I have other blogs, where i actually do write a lot).
So can I call myself a blogger?
I have a blog but I don't blog?
It's a bit like CD - Colin Dobson in Ben Eltons "Stark" - he's a writer although he hasn't actually written anything yet.