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September 19, 2005
Bad Day/Good Reading/Quotes
I’m having a bad day.
I feel terrible and it's making me all grumpy and distraught.
I guess that's why when I read this it hit me hard:
"I’m a curmudgeon. My bad days are tectonic. The EPA issues alerts about me. If you want courtesy, you need a subpoena. It takes a court order just to get me to return a phone call. Does that sound like a saint?"
It’s from a story called "A Quantum Bit Exists in Two States Simultaneously: On" by David Gerrold in the September issue of "Fantasy & Science Fiction." It’s the narrator explaining why he isn’t qualified to be a saint.
At first I was on the fence about the story, but the “Church of the Chocolate Bunny" started to win me over. I’m a chocoholic so a religion that revolves around chocolate is kind of amusing to me. (It certainly explained why there was a chocolate bunny on the front cover, something I had been wondering about.) But then I got to that quote and I was hooked.
Then there was all this discussion about faith and why there isn’t a science of spirituality, which was interesting.
I wish I could refer you to the story online, but it looks like the magazine doesn’t have a web edition. You can order the back issue here though:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/toc0509.htm
One more great quote from the story:
"You want to know the secret, don’t you? It’s no secret, it’s just this – you can’t ask people to be generous unless you first show ‘em what it looks like. That’s all."
‘Nuff said.
Posted by Selena at September 19, 2005 05:54 PM