I am almost moved to start yelling about coincidences.

[green_dreams]

IMPOSSIBLE
Means: 1 I wouldn't like it and when it happens I won't approve; 2 I can't be bothered; 3 God can't be bothered. Meaning 3 may perhaps be valid but the others are 101% whaledreck.

LEADERSHIP
A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own.

ART
A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain.

COINCIDENCE
You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

HIPCRIME
You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope.
-- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

Chad C. Mulligan was a sociologist. He gave it up.

(Excerpted from Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner. Published 1969.)

Comments

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Could I borrow that book sometime? I read and liked his The Shockwave Rider many years ago, and this sounds fun.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I'm actually borrowing it from iclysdale. Let me check with him?

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Soitenly!

[torrain.livejournal.com]

He speaks, and says surely.

I know I won't be able to make it to your game on Sunday, but if Angela or Jason is going, let me know and I can pass them the book on Saturday evening?

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Jason's coming, afaik; thanks!