Have you read A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle? He touches on the same themes of infinite cognizance and diminishing memory. From what I remember, he wrote it while still in college (long before The Last Unicorn), and his prose is almost as beautiful as in his more recent works. Highly recommended!
@oyaji327 I have not read Fine and Private Place. Fun Fact: Peter S. Beagle almost ended up playing my guitar at last year's Philcon. He wanted to borrow it for a filk show, but I had to catch a train so I could not loan it to him!
Yay for mink car cover CD's and as for memory and death there is a book called Tuesday with Morrie I got a lot out of a few years ago I think that this may fit "As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
It's been a while since I read it but if i remember correctly this did sort of come up with one of the main characters from the comic book Powers. He was implied to be as old as recorded time (from early caveman eras) yet can only remember as far back as a human mind can. This fact about his memory was used as a significant plot point...knowing this makes me feel far far too geeky.
This has been flagged as spam show
I've listened to it over an over again. I love Mink Car Cover. It's fun to hear the different versions.
obscenenewg 4 months ago
I've listened to it over an over again. I love Mink Car Cover. It's fun to hear the different versions.
obscenenewg 4 months ago
@obscenenewg Thanks! Glad you like it!
BlueintheFuture 4 months ago
Have you read A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle? He touches on the same themes of infinite cognizance and diminishing memory. From what I remember, he wrote it while still in college (long before The Last Unicorn), and his prose is almost as beautiful as in his more recent works. Highly recommended!
oyaji327 4 months ago
@oyaji327 I have not read Fine and Private Place. Fun Fact: Peter S. Beagle almost ended up playing my guitar at last year's Philcon. He wanted to borrow it for a filk show, but I had to catch a train so I could not loan it to him!
BlueintheFuture 4 months ago
Yay for mink car cover CD's and as for memory and death there is a book called Tuesday with Morrie I got a lot out of a few years ago I think that this may fit "As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
Heylookatthis1 5 months ago
OMG it has THREE DIMENSIONS!!!!! XD
OnyxSparrow 5 months ago
@OnyxSparrow It's in 3D!!!!!!!!
BlueintheFuture 5 months ago
It's been a while since I read it but if i remember correctly this did sort of come up with one of the main characters from the comic book Powers. He was implied to be as old as recorded time (from early caveman eras) yet can only remember as far back as a human mind can. This fact about his memory was used as a significant plot point...knowing this makes me feel far far too geeky.
Zoonerd100 5 months ago
@Zoonerd100 This sounds cool. And no, you are not way too geeky. ;)
BlueintheFuture 5 months ago
What!?! You're part of Mink Car Cover? How did I not know this!?!?! Yet another excellent reason to buy the album. Excite!
rossexton 5 months ago
@rossexton dude! Of course I'm part of Mink Car Cover! Haven't I been talking about it FOREVER? :)
BlueintheFuture 5 months ago
@BlueintheFuture Curse of the newbie, I guess :-P
rossexton 5 months ago
Yeah! Getting my CD soon!
AdamOfNebb 5 months ago
@AdamOfNebb Yeah! In the mail!
BlueintheFuture 5 months ago
How many CDs do you have to put into envelopes? How many presold?
RockingJamboree 5 months ago
@RockingJamboree So far I've put around 160 into envelopes...
BlueintheFuture 5 months ago
@BlueintheFuture Cool! Rock on!
RockingJamboree 5 months ago
Yay CDs! I can't wait to get mine. :)
extrokurt 5 months ago
@extrokurt Mail! Mail! (Sing it to the Blue's Clues tune.)
BlueintheFuture 5 months ago