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Re: OK, then -- how can it be done?
Date: 2007-09-14 01:20 am (UTC)Prose!
> you risk either ugliness (1), lameness (2), or plot-spoilers and distraction (3)
Good writers seem to avoid (1) and (3), and interesting writers avoid (2). If you can find a good interesting writer, you're all set!
Timothy Ferris recently did an op-ed piece for the New York Times about the Voyager 1 & 2 probes. Centauri Dreams' blog pointed out the poetry of Ferris' conclusion: "And 358,000 years will elapse before Voyager 2 approaches the bright star Sirius. Out there, our concepts of velocity become provincial. The stars are moving, too, in gigantic orbits around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Voyager, a toy boat on this dark sea, will not so much approach Sirius as watch it sail by, bobbing in its mighty wake."