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February 16, 2006
Misc. Updates
The ConcordeThe Concorde was such a cool plane. I’ve never actually flown on it, but it was truly awesome. It was an amazing bird. It was a supersonic transport plane. It was beautiful. It was a community. It was too darn expensive for everyone, but it sure was a cool plane.
Why all this talk about the Concorde? Well, I dug through some old VHS tapes and played one that’s a PBS documentary about it. It’s too bad they discontinued it. Sure was cool while it was around. 9/11 killed it. About 40 of the most frequent flyers of Concorde were killed in the WTC attacks.
The War of The Worlds
In other news; In my recent literary excursions, I have finished H.G. Wells’ famed novel about alien invasions from Mars, The War of The Worlds. Now, the commentary. At first it seems like timing really is everything. I started it when I started reading Tale of Two Cities. When I started War of The Worlds, it seemed like a rather hard read. A good read, but nonetheless a hard one. So, as time progressed, I sort of stretched my literary ability on Tale of Two Cities. Due to schoolwork (and mainly laziness) I had set down The War Of The World’s for a decent amount of time. Then I got the War Of The Worlds DVD from the library. (The old one) It was a really good movie. So, seeing that got me wanting to read the rest of the book. So I did, and due to reading Tale of Two Cities, it seemed like a lot more of an easy read than it did in the beginning. It was really interesting. The first person style of writing is very convincing. One feels as if they are actually conversing with an eyewitness to the Martian invasion. At the start of the book, H. G. Wells emphasizes the character’s experiences following the Martian landing near his house. On the other side of the halfway mark, Wells winds up taking on this philosophical look into life and how it pertains to the recent Martian occupation of the world. Some of his conclusions and ideas are a bit muddled in terms of real Truth, but they are very interesting nonetheless. This is quite possibly the book’s coolest quote: “I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel. With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.” Awesome.
Blog update
I hope this blog is not turning into being wholly about my literary experiences. My truest apologies, I will try and post about something different.
Posted by Addison on February 16, 2006 06:30 PM
