Charlie Bell wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: >> I could just laugh along and pretend I got that; however, I have no >> idea to what that reference joke actually refers. >The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, who ran as fast as she could >just to >stay in the same place. :)
My first thought was that it was an Alice reference, but I've never read the actual books and didn't know that was part of her character. >> _Consider Phlebas_ and _A Player of Games_ >Cool. The next two (_Use Of Weapons_ and _Excession_) are great too. I've heard good and bad about UoW, that it's an aggravating book in some ways. Excession I don't know much about at all. >> I've generally thought of it as Western society writ large, wherein >> the "government," such as the Culture has, does nasty things that >> their citizens would never actually imagine them doing. >Mebbe. It's worth reading "A Few Notes On The Culture"... I ought to >put it >up on culturelist.org really. It's probably in the Culture >Data Repository >though. (http://cdr.culturelist.org) I'll try to check it out some time. >>I mean, most Americans view our country as the guys with the white >>hats, and I'd like to think they're disturbed by some of the ugly >>things coming to light right now. >I agree with you - more and more Americans seem to be slowly coming >to the conclusion that something is rotten in the states... I hope so. But there's always the "yahoo" factor here. That is to say, there's enough "yahoos" that refuse to even consider the possibility that the US is, on occasion, the bad guy, that real change may be a while coming. I still think we're *generally* the good guys, but the folks running the show right now are working hard to make us look like Snidely Whiplash, using 9/11 as an excuse for all manner of things that sound, to me at least, downright un-American. Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
