Comments on: Chimeric Thinking in the Trough of Disillusionment

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:46:14 +0000

Woop. Correct.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:16:24 +0000

YES, we like Chimeros, too!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:38:19 +0000

(Psst. I think it was actually one of the other Matts-of-BERG who wrote that post: Matt Jones.)

By: Frank Chimero

Frank Chimero — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:05:02 +0000

Who you callin’ discontinuous?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:56:57 +0000

Oh, and I totally agree about my punctuation post. All day now, I've been thinking: "Dropped apostrophes + emoticons + hyperlinks + footnotes + big f---ing posters + hashtags + brains + screens + code + computers = WTF, something's here, I'm going for it." As the great Frank O'Hara said: You just go on your nerve. If someone’s chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don’t turn around and shout, "Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep."

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:42:38 +0000

There's a great line in Warren Ellis's Ultimate Nightmare (which I totally recommend, by the way): Sam Wilson (The Falcon, who's like ten times as cool in the Ultimate Marvel version) hacks into a decommissioned ex-Soviet base, and he says to Black Widow (about the entry system) "Typical Russian, if you don't mind me saying. An 80s keypad stuck on a 60s computer system. Take two things that work and nail them together." Of course, when they get into the base, they find out it's really a prison, packed with mutants who've got different alien body parts bolted onto their bodies to augment their powers. Take two things that work and nail them together. I'm wondering, though -- is there a distinction between chimerical thinking and constellational thinking? Or are all of these implausible recombinations/illusions -- constellations, chimeras, pieces nailed together -- do those metaphors themselves make a constellation? Or a chimera?

By: Paula Kerr

Paula Kerr — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:38:52 +0000

Yah! I like it too! In fact, I think I AM a Chimera. Moongirl xxx