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Much-Much More Love from Michael Mott! Part 8

on 5/29/03 11:53 PM, Odd Empire at odd_empire@yahoo.com wrote:

> No, I doubt it. I haven?t been to one of those things
> since Dragoncon was the called The Atlanta Fantasy
> Fair. I?m thinking about going up this year however.
> I?m curious to see how the science fiction scene has
> changed over the last couple of decades.
>

You'd leave the luxury of Florida for the smog of Atlanta?

It's a lot of fun, there's no doubt about it.

> I wasn?t kidding about writing a couple of novels. I
> got the writing bug late last year and cranked a novel
> out and about seven short subjects in the space of
> around four months. I have four short stories in the
> submission train right now. I?m papering a wall with
> rejection notices. I?m working on the sequel to novel
> #one and expect to have the third novel written by
> December of 2003.
>

Go for it! Rejection notices are just part of the game.

> I?m not a ?frustrated writer?, not yet anyway. I?m
> having too much fun producing this stuff. Even if they
> sit in a shoebox covered in rejection slips I won?t be
> dismayed too much. I?m fully aware of how difficult it
> is to get into the business. At the same time I don?t
> intend to pay someone to publish my work, they will
> either stand on their own merits or not at all. Either
> way, I get some satisfaction out of just doing it and
> the rest, can take care of itself.
>

That is the right attitude.

> Incidentally, I?ve read some of your writing over the
> last couple of hours. You have some interesting points
> of view, kind reminds me of Shaver?s stuff. I can?t
> say that I agree with your conclusions very much. You
> seem to be relating a bunch of urban legend and
> couching it as fact.
>

No, it's based solely on verifiable fact. Patterns can be found which
correlate to one another, back to the most ancient accounts.

It really is more of an updated look at folklore, but with an eye toward
discerning the possible truths behind the legends. It's not so much similar
to Evans-Wentz, as it is to Robert Kirk, in general philosophy.

Shaver was just one thread in the tapestry. He was confabulating due to
shock over something he'd experienced, and draped it all in pulp-scifi
trappings to protect his own sanity. IMO.

> Now there is nothing wrong with doing that but
> realize that most people are going to (and have) just
> reject(ed) you out of hand.
>

As is their right. Plenty of others--hundreds, actually--believe I'm on the
right track. People who have had frightening, inexplicable experiences, and are tired or fearful of ridicule, derision, and scoffing, are looking for
answers. Little do most realize that their experiences are nothing new, not generated or caused by "aliens," but are native to this planet and have always been experienced by human beings.

One of the areas explored in the book is the way in which folklore--even
"urban legend"--is used as a safety-valve and as a protective mechanism for the collective human psyche. Happens all the time.

> Have your read ?The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries??
> (W.Y Evans-Wentz, Citadel, New York NY. ISBN
> 0-8065-1160-5) That stuff has been around for a very
> long time and is probably related to modern ideas of
> UFOs and other phenomena.

Yes, of course.

>Whether this stuff is
> actually related to aliens or subterranean Detrimental
> Robots is quite another thing.

No aliens. The entire extraterrestrial school of thought is fraught with
misinformation, disinformation, and deception. This deceptive quality is
part and parcel of encounters between humans and "others," however. It
always has been.

> One would have to
> really look at the evidence, and good evidence is very
> hard to find! My family even has stories of strange
> caverns on property that we own, but when one tries to
> actually find the caves they are conveniently missing.
> That seems to be the nature of the beast, if one looks
> too hard the evidence becomes nonsense.
>

Maybe you shouldn't dismiss those stories out of hand. A little serious
investigation may at the very least reveal the existence of those caverns.Since most of the southeast U.S. sits on either limestone or sandstone, cavern systems are almost guaranteed to exist throughout. This is due simply to the processes of water and carbolic acid. This doesn't mean that entrances which are large enough to permit ingress would exist, however.Surely your family preserved those stories for a reason. Of course, the caves are probably just ordinary, dripping caves.

--M.

p.s., You may want to be a bit more careful with your derision....

>From www.m-w.com:

Main Entry: judg·ment
Variant(s): or judge·ment /'j&j-m&nt/
Function: noun
Date: 13th century
1 a : a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion b : an opinion so
pronounced
2 a : a formal decision given by a court b (1) : an obligation (as a debt)
created by the decree of a court (2) : a certificate evidencing such a
decree
3 a capitalized : the final judging of mankind by God b : a divine sentence
or decision; specifically : a calamity held to be sent by God
4 a : the process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and
comparing b : an opinion or estimate so formed
5 a : the capacity for judging : DISCERNMENT b : the exercise of this
capacity
6 : a proposition stating something believed or asserted
synonym see SENSE

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One entry found for pronouncement.

Main Entry: pro·nounce·ment
Pronunciation: pr&-'naun(t)s-m&nt
Function: noun
Date: 1593
1 : a usually formal declaration of opinion
2 : an authoritative announcement

Hmm, he is actaully starting to make sense, in a Fortean kind of way that is.

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