TWENTY PLUS YEARS AGO? Wow! I remember suggesting this - you were (almost definitely) one of the last I recommended it to as for some reason it slipped off my playlist. Can you recall any other suggestions I made? That was quite a different time and I had very different interests!
I think they were independent recommendations - I taught all three, but only in SAT Prep. And never all in the same semester - I mixed things up to keep myself interested.
hey i was one of them seven, or an unremembered eighth. of those on whom you pressed Noon's superb 90s cyberpunk novel Vurt back in the day, i mean. whether as fantasy it comes in more nearly utopian than dys- has much to do with the cast of the mind of the nihilist who happens to be reading it. utopian as i recall, albeit depravedly so. now, it's possible the late accretion of adult respectability and other preponderant calcifications proper to petty-bourgeois rectitude, barnacles, and death might just ruin the book's demonic enticements for me now. but probably not.
Of course! I definitely would have pressed this book on you - though I think you're probably closer to two or three. Back in the day, indeed. Vurt's a depraved utopia, no question. I read it for the (third?) time about ten years ago and was once more sucked straight into its world. A friend of mine who went to university in Manchester had mentioned it in the staff room at lunch and we got into one of those conversations which led to a re-read. But what I remember most is that he said the locations and settings were all real places. Which added a completely new layer to the novel. It's a superb novel - and now, along with The Magus, I've got to re-read it again.
Adding Morris Day to the playlist was a great way to sneak more purple into The Bus without a Prince track. My own detour: I drove past Paisley Park every day on my way to a temporary assignment in Chanhassen.
The subconscious is certainly amazing. I'd not connected the two until you mentioned it ... but then it wasn't until last night that I clocked the topic's timing could be connected to the Queen's Jubilee. Which was definitely unintended!
I think many people believe you would have been one, too! The purple in my image is composed of six different pigments - only one of which is purple. But that purple is my favourite: Winsor and Newton's dioxazine purple. Apologies, as I know that sounds pretentious, but it's the purple you just want to have a tube of around the house. I try hard to match colours with the shade in my mind - this one is pretty close!
Currently reading “Lamb”, one of your earlier suggestions, and Tyrian purple is mentioned! Did The Bus detour even further?
I was curious to see if Vurt would make an appearance on The Bus, what a great read. One of many fantastic recommendations from you 20+ years ago.
TWENTY PLUS YEARS AGO? Wow! I remember suggesting this - you were (almost definitely) one of the last I recommended it to as for some reason it slipped off my playlist. Can you recall any other suggestions I made? That was quite a different time and I had very different interests!
I cannot recall if these were books we read in class of if they were independent recommendations but Brave New World, 1984, and Catch 22 come to mind.
I think they were independent recommendations - I taught all three, but only in SAT Prep. And never all in the same semester - I mixed things up to keep myself interested.
hey i was one of them seven, or an unremembered eighth. of those on whom you pressed Noon's superb 90s cyberpunk novel Vurt back in the day, i mean. whether as fantasy it comes in more nearly utopian than dys- has much to do with the cast of the mind of the nihilist who happens to be reading it. utopian as i recall, albeit depravedly so. now, it's possible the late accretion of adult respectability and other preponderant calcifications proper to petty-bourgeois rectitude, barnacles, and death might just ruin the book's demonic enticements for me now. but probably not.
Of course! I definitely would have pressed this book on you - though I think you're probably closer to two or three. Back in the day, indeed. Vurt's a depraved utopia, no question. I read it for the (third?) time about ten years ago and was once more sucked straight into its world. A friend of mine who went to university in Manchester had mentioned it in the staff room at lunch and we got into one of those conversations which led to a re-read. But what I remember most is that he said the locations and settings were all real places. Which added a completely new layer to the novel. It's a superb novel - and now, along with The Magus, I've got to re-read it again.
Adding Morris Day to the playlist was a great way to sneak more purple into The Bus without a Prince track. My own detour: I drove past Paisley Park every day on my way to a temporary assignment in Chanhassen.
The subconscious is certainly amazing. I'd not connected the two until you mentioned it ... but then it wasn't until last night that I clocked the topic's timing could be connected to the Queen's Jubilee. Which was definitely unintended!
Purple has always been my favorite color; now I know I must have been an Empress in a former life.
I think many people believe you would have been one, too! The purple in my image is composed of six different pigments - only one of which is purple. But that purple is my favourite: Winsor and Newton's dioxazine purple. Apologies, as I know that sounds pretentious, but it's the purple you just want to have a tube of around the house. I try hard to match colours with the shade in my mind - this one is pretty close!
Fascinating. Should we infer from the illustration "Purple (Number 3)/Bryan Padrick" that you have been squeezing a few hypobranchial glands yourself?
My right thumb and forefinger are cramped from overuse.