Anybody remember Elric? The ultimate anti-hero, a degenerate albino aristocrat and warlock wandering a dreamy, non-sensical land with his big black soul-sucking sword, Stormbringer. Classic stuff by way of Michael Moorcock.
My sailing was by bike this afternoon. The old girl has snazzy new tires from Tioga, and was just humming along sunny and breezy Dallas road. Found myself all the way out at the Oak Bay Marina, sitting on a park bench by the water, listening to the wind whistle and murmur through the masts and wires of all the docked sailboats. A strange kind of music. I smell the sea just remembering it…
Up the steep winding back way to Gonzales Hill, where the breeze was really blowing up through the strait. Then it was down and back past Beacon Hill park, where I ran into Irina taking pictures. There were some dudes pulling off gnarly riffs with these gorgeous contraptions half way between a windsurfer and a parachute (a parasail?). I want one. Looks unbelievably dangerous…
Nice to get back on the bike and move around a little. I think the sound of cycling — the comings and goings of the Doppler Effect — may be the most amazing part of it. Just like the sound fate. Whoosh….
March 28, 2007 at 4:08 pm |
oh mon dieu…
the drama..
fate, I don’t buy..
self-fulfilling prophecy..sounds more like it
you know poli-sciers have the agent/structure debate..and no one seems to step back enough to see that agents impose and re-form, alter and shape structure either by their actions or by their understanding of the structure..
alas, only you control your destiny..
March 28, 2007 at 7:11 pm |
Maybe. But the part of the Elric saga I’m refering to is all about fate, destiny and the idea of free will — I thought I’d just go with the theme. Michael Moorcock wrote good books, BTW — probably unknown to the great bulk of political scientists (among others…). Though his fantasy world, a la Hobbes, was a place where lives were nasty, brutish and short…Particularly for anybody who got a little too close to Stormbringer…
March 28, 2007 at 10:38 pm |
umm… I am pretty sure that political scientists are really quite illiterate at the end of the day..(just my cynicism for the day…since my supervisor decided this morning would be a good morning to bitch me out)
March 29, 2007 at 2:23 am |
Doesn’t he read lots of Star Trek novels? Speaking of illiterate…Anyway, hang in there…
April 7, 2007 at 8:18 pm |
Me want one too.
April 8, 2007 at 11:38 pm |
Yeah…looks most wicked…