03-14-2026, 09:24 AM
To which she replied, "I don't know - am I mentioned in your Will?"
But seriously, @rowens, my God, why are you so good at this?
Currently reading E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." 1909, and "prescient" ain't in it. Just starting Chapter 2, and he's already invented Homelessness as a capitalized thing. I feel like I've read it before, but only because every Dystopian/Hive screenwriter must have.
Oh, by the way: my rule of thumb is, "There are no minds without bodies," or the prisoner's truism, "Everybody's got to be somewhere." And J. K. Rowling's complementary caution, "Never trust a thing if you can't see where it keeps its brains."
But seriously, @rowens, my God, why are you so good at this?
Currently reading E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." 1909, and "prescient" ain't in it. Just starting Chapter 2, and he's already invented Homelessness as a capitalized thing. I feel like I've read it before, but only because every Dystopian/Hive screenwriter must have.
Oh, by the way: my rule of thumb is, "There are no minds without bodies," or the prisoner's truism, "Everybody's got to be somewhere." And J. K. Rowling's complementary caution, "Never trust a thing if you can't see where it keeps its brains."
Non-practicing atheist