I also recommend the short story "Tonight the sky will fall" by Daniel F Galouye (in the collection "Space Opera" edited by Brian Aldiss)
On 9 February 2014 13:47, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure if that's a recommendation or just a chance to "let off steam" > but anyway - thanks, I will try to get hold of that. > > > On 9 February 2014 13:34, freqflyer07281972 <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I've been following this thread with some interest, waiting for one movie >> to be invariably mentioned among this crowd, and surprised that it hasn't >> been yet: "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater. >> >> Not only would members of this list like this movie, they would also be >> reminded of the different kinds of conversations that go on here. It could >> even be interpreted as a kind of visualization of the QIT. The only person >> on this list who might not like it is John Clarke, since it is filled with >> references to so many useless, deadbeat, unproductive and non-contributing >> philosophers and one of the many pre-occupations of the film is that >> utterly meaningless ASCII sequence/noise "free will" (blech, I threw up a >> bit in my mouth just typing those nine characters, that's how abhorrent and >> senseless the notion is). Also, it is a cartoon, and I'm pretty sure he >> would have stopped watching anything so stupid since Grade 6, or when he >> was 12, or something. And most importantly, it didn't win any awards and >> was not on anyone's top ten list, at least, not anyone who counts as having >> valuable opinions about quality movies. But for the rest of you, I strongly >> recommend you check it out! >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
