I’m about two thirds of the way through Dune. Still well written but all this stuff about the machinations of Fremen culture and Paul going off his nut and having visions all the time, I’m finding a bit less compelling plot-wise. Also I don’t like things that are underground or in caves. Makes me feel claustrophobic.
Category: culture
I like East Coker by TS Eliot. I don’t think I understand it all. But I like it.
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.”
I’m reading Dune at the moment. First time doing so. It’s really good so far. It feels a bit like a fantasy book, but with little hints of sci-fi thrown in here and there.
I like the way it’s written. I like how the characters have these little thoughts as asides now and then.
Feuding dukes doesn’t really get me going plot wise, but some of this CHOAM company stuff seems like it could be interesting.
Oh dang, I just realised where the record label Mille Plateaux took its name from.
I used to love their Clicks & Cuts series, and listened a lot to Vladislav Delay.
Love little linkages like that.