I give in

[ritaxis]

I'm doing the second draft. I know the substance of the last scene, but it just won't write, and I do know what I want to do in the second draft, so foo.

On another front, Day 6! After today, only 8 more days until I can eat fruit and grains again. But I don't pine for them. Or potatoes, either. So if I get to Day 14 and I still don't want to, I won't. But it will be an option.

Once, in a rasf* usenet group, I said: "In this great and creatorless universe, where so much beautiful has come to be out of the chance interactions of the basic properties of matter, it seems so important that we love one another"

It's all over hell and gone now, mostly on the sidebars of science blogs. It would make me proud except that when I said it, it was an illustration of how the atheist world view doesn't make for easy snippets you can force into every conversation the way that certain religious people do with God stuff. Because the sentence, if you look at it, doesn't follow or make sense. But there it is. It's not as widespread or prominent as James Nicoll's observation on the English Language, but it's apparently the mark I'm making in the world.

Comments

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

That's a great sentiment.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I remember when you wrote that...I think it was on rasseff.

Do you at least get credit? James often doesn't. (Booker T. Washington.)

[pameladean]

It makes sense to me. It's not very pithy, but I think that pithiness is overrated.

P.

The original Usenet message

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I remember you saying something in here about being unable to find the original message because of someone sigging it right away. I don't see it now...did you edit the entry? Anyway, I went and found it in the Google Groups archive: Interesting Development (US).

In this great and creatorless universe...

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

same here, on both counts.

and it's way cool that it's been spreading.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I always get credit! I think because of ArJay's signature: people just lift it whole, credit and all.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

It's the grammatical structure of the sentence that's wrong. It implies that the second half of the sentence follows from the first half, but they're really independent thoughts.

the words are written

[theridger.livejournal.com]

It makes sense to me. We need to love each other, because there is no one else to love.

Anyway, as you know, it's on my blog's sidebar and it's staying. As JM Coetzee said, in another context altogether, "The words are written; I cannot control the associations they awaken."