tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463345720775263702.post4706004613148733566..comments2023-10-07T14:38:30.036+05:30Comments on The Enemy Within: A World Lost.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07480720884562196673noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463345720775263702.post-37413285698568840722008-11-10T13:41:00.000+05:302008-11-10T13:41:00.000+05:30hv u read his andromeda strain?hv u read his andromeda strain?Apurvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15520353719761330153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463345720775263702.post-24919313253152036942008-11-07T05:11:00.000+05:302008-11-07T05:11:00.000+05:30Good question :-) It has turned quite bloggish... ...Good question :-) It <I>has</I> turned quite bloggish... but I still don't think of it as a blog, because <BR/>* No one reads it :P<BR/>* If it's a "blog" then there is the expectation that I'm writing something fit for someone to read, which is "too much pressure" :P<BR/>[Actually I feel this more generally too -- that I can no longer write, or even think clearly. Mark Twain's admonition to "Use the right word, not its second cousin." was written for exactly this kind of sloppiness. (That's from <A HREF="http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/rissetto/offense.html" REL="nofollow">Fenimoore Cooper's Literary Offenses</A>; you should read it if you haven't :-)]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463345720775263702.post-35491478834440491042008-11-06T12:49:00.000+05:302008-11-06T12:49:00.000+05:30Heh. I'm in the process of reading the essay on yo...Heh. I'm in the process of reading the essay on your blog.<BR/><BR/>Why the quotes, btw? Your webpage more than meets the requirements of a weblog, and I can't quite see you would use them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07480720884562196673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463345720775263702.post-12786912488771637332008-11-06T12:46:00.000+05:302008-11-06T12:46:00.000+05:30Thanks for writing this. Sad news indeed...I start...Thanks for writing this. Sad news indeed...<BR/><BR/>I started writing a comment here but it became too long and incoherent (even by my standards) so I dumped something else on my "blog" instead. There is an essay by Asimov part of which shows that Crichton was special in the world of SF...<BR/><BR/>[BTW it seems the speech is still available at <A HREF="http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html" REL="nofollow">this link</A>.]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com