I come for the advice but stay for the metaphysics, I guess. What a resonant piece, and not only because I’m watching videos of LA burning while listening to Beautyland.
Voyager always makes me cry and I don't even know why, really, other than I was a nerdy science-loving and space-loving kid in the Carter years. When the news had come that we had lost contact with Voyager II, I cried. When the news came that we'd reestablished contact, I cried. As always, I'm glad I'm not alone.
This is beautiful. Thank you. What you say here about Carter's beautiful sentence made me think right away about something Robert Falcon Scott wrote as he was dying in Antarctica: "Had we lived, we would have had a tale to tell. . . ". Had we lived. The man is writing from after his own death. It's a courageous act, deranged and childlike, as you say. It's what we do.
I think this is the loveliest thing written about literature and the human condition that I have ever read, and it was written by my agent.
I come for the advice but stay for the metaphysics, I guess. What a resonant piece, and not only because I’m watching videos of LA burning while listening to Beautyland.
Voyager always makes me cry and I don't even know why, really, other than I was a nerdy science-loving and space-loving kid in the Carter years. When the news had come that we had lost contact with Voyager II, I cried. When the news came that we'd reestablished contact, I cried. As always, I'm glad I'm not alone.
This is beautiful. Thank you. What you say here about Carter's beautiful sentence made me think right away about something Robert Falcon Scott wrote as he was dying in Antarctica: "Had we lived, we would have had a tale to tell. . . ". Had we lived. The man is writing from after his own death. It's a courageous act, deranged and childlike, as you say. It's what we do.
I didn't know how much I needed that. Thank you.
Wept.
This is beautiful, and reminded me why I friggin love beauty.
My freakin' HEART.
This is so beautiful, thank you.
Thank you for this.
Astonishing! Thank you for this precious post.
Thanks for this.