Comments on: More Catching Up http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/more-catching-up/ falling indelibly into the past Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: BT http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/more-catching-up/#comment-454 BT Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:03:36 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=225#comment-454 <p>My lack of comment on this is indicative of the fact that I’m feeling (a) like, wow, it was a long time ago that I read that, and do I really remember it well enough to comment (for example: I can remember quite clearly what the compass and the knife are and do, but the spyglass—is that what the woman is using in her lab?; and (b) I really should have something better to say than (a); and (c) that thinking about how good Pullman’s work is as a whole makes me (with my own little project in the same genre) feel decidedly queasily bad about my own work, and wonder for the umptimillionth time whether I should just chuck it in. </p> <p> That’s why I’ve been rather quiet.  But I’m going to think about this some more… </p> My lack of comment on this is indicative of the fact that I’m feeling (a) like, wow, it was a long time ago that I read that, and do I really remember it well enough to comment (for example: I can remember quite clearly what the compass and the knife are and do, but the spyglass—is that what the woman is using in her lab?; and (b) I really should have something better to say than (a); and (c) that thinking about how good Pullman’s work is as a whole makes me (with my own little project in the same genre) feel decidedly queasily bad about my own work, and wonder for the umptimillionth time whether I should just chuck it in.

That’s why I’ve been rather quiet.  But I’m going to think about this some more…

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