Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Well, it's more that it's difficult to make penguin cheese with a complete lack of penguin milk.
That's being logical. Penguin milk is metaphysical.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
DCJensen - Jun 29, 2004 10:41:48 am PDT #931 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
-t - Jun 29, 2004 10:43:36 am PDT #932 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Forward did Dragon's Egg, right? I love that.
Unfortunately, I just read an anthology of hard science fiction that has forewords and introductions explaining why each story is hard science fiction and why anything that isn't hard sf is crap, and it made me unable to think about the subject rationally.
But I can say that I love Brust so much that I spent years reading Jack Chalker novels because I thought he wrote To Reign in Hell. I was so relieved when I realized my mistake, and so grateful to rediscover Brust!
tommyrot - Jun 29, 2004 10:59:59 am PDT #933 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I want to see tommyrot milk a penguin. Mammals have dominated that market for way too long.
Well, some cultures talk about something known as "man-milk."
Penguin milk is metaphysical.
Or rather, the non-existence of penguin milk is a... a... metaphor or symbolic or something of something.
Gus - Jun 29, 2004 11:10:14 am PDT #934 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
-t,
I am nearly ready to say that I am not altogether fond of Brust's work.
Feathers! I say that am close upon that opinion. It grows nigh.
I hereby halve the distance to it. And halve it yet again.
Yet, I retreat. An entire novel of such constructions is sometimes too long, but the net effect is fun.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 11:11:38 am PDT #935 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::regards Gus with suspicion::
Gus - Jun 29, 2004 11:15:18 am PDT #936 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
::regards ita with a cool-as-a-cucumber crooked eyebrow::
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 11:21:46 am PDT #937 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::recoils slightly from the crooked cucumber::
BRUST IS THE BOMB!!!
::regains composure::
DCJensen - Jun 29, 2004 11:26:43 am PDT #938 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
::Looks genuinely amused::
DXMachina - Jun 29, 2004 11:30:19 am PDT #939 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
::Checks to make sure everybody closed their italics tags::
Gus - Jun 29, 2004 11:30:22 am PDT #940 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
:: snorts in derision at the notion that any Gus cucumber is in any way crooked ::
:: begins to recite... ::
Chapter the Seventeenth, How Piro and His Friends, Upon at Last Reaching Dzur Mountain, Met Someone Whom We Hope the Reader Will Consider an Old Friend...