A weird quarantine thought
May. 3rd, 2020 16:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyStill here. It's week seven now? Word is that restrictions are going to start loosening soon but we are not out of the woods yet. I plan to stick pretty close to home for the time being.
I made one new thing this week, the Smitten Kitchen blueberry muffins, in honor of my quarantine drama club tackling The Importance of Being Earnest, and they are delicious.
Perhaps it's because the new Dune movie is being talked about on Twitter etc, but since quarantine started I've been thinking of that scene at the end of one of those Dan Simmons novels--Wikipedia tells me it's The Fall of Hyperion--where President lady Abraham Lincoln (actually named Meina Gladstone?) severs the instantaneous teleportation network because of the evil AIs (???) and the super rich people who had each room in their houses on different worlds are suddenly cut off from one another. Simmons is fucking weird, I read those books in high school and they are deeply 80s and deeply weird, to say nothing of their extremely deep problems. But, yeah. It feels a little like that.
I made one new thing this week, the Smitten Kitchen blueberry muffins, in honor of my quarantine drama club tackling The Importance of Being Earnest, and they are delicious.
Perhaps it's because the new Dune movie is being talked about on Twitter etc, but since quarantine started I've been thinking of that scene at the end of one of those Dan Simmons novels--Wikipedia tells me it's The Fall of Hyperion--where President lady Abraham Lincoln (actually named Meina Gladstone?) severs the instantaneous teleportation network because of the evil AIs (???) and the super rich people who had each room in their houses on different worlds are suddenly cut off from one another. Simmons is fucking weird, I read those books in high school and they are deeply 80s and deeply weird, to say nothing of their extremely deep problems. But, yeah. It feels a little like that.
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Date: 2020-05-04 04:05 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-04 05:00 (UTC)But yeah, you're right, it's been 20 years and I still remember some scenes in those books with perfect clarity. (Granted at least one of those scenes is the literal vagina dentata sex scene, but what can you do.) If nothing else, he can definitely turn a phrase. And those poor people stuck in different worlds! I have definitely thought of them at moments before this too.