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I've long been an admirer of Jerry "Tycho" Holkins' writing, and the newspost (not comic) from yesterday is a prime showcase of his craft. It's heartbreaking, and beautiful, and is almost a short story as it stands. Sadly, it's nonfiction, but it's definitely capital-L Literature in my book.
It's about 1200 words and takes just a minute or two to read. I figured this forum was as good a place as any to share it:
Further Intrusions of Actual Life
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Moving piece by Jerry Holkins Penny Arcade's "Tycho"
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Salt-Man Z 
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Posted 05 August 2014 - 06:52 PM
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
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Posted 05 August 2014 - 08:46 PM
The bald one.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
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Posted 05 August 2014 - 11:17 PM
I too enjoy reading his writings, and I definitely was moved by this one. However, I often feel like he tries too hard to have his writing be 'sophisticated.' Almost every thing of his that I read begins as a tangle of tangents, leaving the reader thinking, "These things seem pretty random...," but lo! The last sentence comes tramping along and ties it all together! Magnificent!
Except it's not, because it's stale and forced.
I often enjoy reading his writings, but, these days, I don't enjoy how he writes them. (This piece was better than most, though).
Except it's not, because it's stale and forced.
I often enjoy reading his writings, but, these days, I don't enjoy how he writes them. (This piece was better than most, though).
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Posted 05 August 2014 - 11:24 PM
He's the bald one who deliberately obfuscates his grandiloquent verbiage by request of the fans. The skinny one is the fuckwit.
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
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