Posts by Islander
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I'm also yer classic introvert and not very sociable (but I am certainly not a recluse). I like people well enough, but am best with those I've known for at least a decade and preferably much longer...I always remember names & faces for that quite large group of folk, but o dear,
when I meet you, I'll probably not take aboard your name or face - unless you have a very unusual name, or face. I collect different names (having some myself) and am very aware of physical differences - comes from an interest in anatomy & portraiture. I envy those who are so much more socially couth than myself (all my family and a lot of my friends) but anything I've tried to make myself at ease with strangers just doesnt work.Having been, since babyhood, an observer on the fringes - well, it's far too late to change.
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A *lot* of the other writers from other eras are still relevant. For instance, John Milton inspired Phillip Pullman, and he wrote probably one of the best trilogies over the past decade (way better than anything J. K. Rowling has written IMHO.
Keir Leslie mentioned the empathy & inspiration that sci-fic/fan writers have for earlier Sf/f writers and how we consciously acknowledge them by using & developing some of their concepts (while writing otherwise new stories.) Many of those works predate my birth-
I really *cannot* understand your desire to 'want(ed) to build on' someone else's work: be inspired by it, great -there's so many writers who do this. But they/we create something new: we dont just steal someone else's characters/storyline - especially when & while copyright holds-
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My best & favourite bro-in-law is a cancer survivor. He has an ongoing tattoo which incorporates Maori motifs, Celt & surfie motifs - beautiful. He's a Pakeha, and he's chosen a nice charcoal colour which looks really good on his skin. I have an ongoing poem about writing life on skin and this good man is the inspiration for it-
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What I said x 3-
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O wow! Steven C & Jack Elder - excellent collectable items for my tattoo collection...
I love 'em but wont have 'em because I change my mind far too frequently and moko is for quite a long time...
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Mark - you obviously havent read my earlier comments.
"Without reinvigorating the public domain,"
-holusbolus?
"the whole thing goes rancid"
-WTF?
"and we enter a dark age"
-doh?
"whre (sic) no one can create anything"
-I'm sorry, everyone is limited to what has been previously created? No shit eh?
"because everyone is holding onto whatever copyrights they hold"
**that's the people who own the rather limited copyrights they are entitled to hold, mmmkay? Who are not restricting anybody else from creating whatever stories or characters or music or whatever they want - right?
"(or can grab.)"
That's a bit of a worry: copyright/intellectual property law is actually supposed to stop this kind of thing...
If I create something it may become part of the social fabric - it doesnt make it available to ANYONE else except as part of their mindscape, and certainly *doesnt* mean anyone else can use it for their own purposes.
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Ooo-err- Apple-lemon at it again - sorry
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There's been a couple of powercuts here, over the past 2 days: I heard enough ominous thunder faraway enough to close down all the electronics (5.08 am) for the first one. It was after 1.50pm before the power got back on-I'd gone into FJG to have breakfast because my gas-stove wasnt working & I didnt want to make the fire that early(10ish-)
but shit o dear! There were slips on the road; it was violent damaging weather. And there were the people in their flourescent hazard vests
busy with their machinery (and manhandling stuff too) anonymously restoring us to our expected comforts when I drove out from the beach - and the power was back on when I arrived back home.There are armies of these folk - the power people, the roadies, the telecom revivers- they're just 'doing their job.' Which, for one, I truly appreciate, commend them for - but cant name names.
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The second one came out of the black & killed one of my machines. Aue, that's sort of ordinary for this area - I crawled off to bed, knowing it wouldnt be warm, but was woken at 3am by the power being re-established -again, people were up and about in the interim just doing their job - which deserves far more kudos and salutations and outright money than bloody politicians-
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There's been a couple of powercuts here, over the past 2 days: I heard enough ominous thunder faraway enough to close down all the electronics (5.08 am) for the first one. It was after 1.50pm before the power got back on-I'd gone into FJG to have breakfast because my gas-stove wasnt working & I didnt want to make the fire that early(10ish-)
but shit o dear! There were slips on the road; it was violent damaging weather. And there were the people in their flourescent hazard vests
busy with their machinery (and manhandling stuff too) anonymously restoring us to our expected comforts when I drove out from the beach - and the power was back on when I arrived back home.There are armies of these folk - the power people, the roadies, the telecom revivers- they're just 'doing their job.' Which, for one, I truly appreciate, commend them for - but cant name names.