A ZipBook: Ron Goulart's _When the Waker Sleeps_ (1975)
mimus
horse-related injury?"
When the doctor nodded an old-style hypo fell out of the crinkly hair at
his temple. "Much more much more profound things are happening, young
man. You stand on the brink the brink."
*
"What what do you know about cryptobiosis?"
"Well," said Nate, wishing he could scratch his ear, "we did a segment on
it a few months back on the News for Tots show. Of course when your chief
newscaster is a hand puppet you have to be a little superficial . . . ."
*
"What nature has done for the Nematoda I can do for you."
*
The conductor passed through the entertainment car of the train handing
out crash helmets. "We'll be going by Harlem soon, folks. Let's get
these on."
*
"Cadavers don't eat," said Zayna. "Even if they did, I'll be darned if
I'm going to share a meal with one."
"I'm not a cadaver. I have never been a cadaver."
*
"I'm something of a history buff myself, when I'm not wrapped up in devil
worship."
*
"Everybody sleeps late hereabouts. That's one of the advantages of devil
worship."
*
"I've got a stungun aimed right at your crotch," announced a girl's voice.
"I don't know if you've ever had your crotch stunned before, but they say--"
*
"Golly," said the navigation box on the dash. "I'm having a real tough
time flying in the dark."
"We're not flying, we're driving."
*
"My feeling is, a research center doesn't have to be dull."
*
"Better by far if I'd stayed dead."
*
"Lake Survivor, in case you may have slept through the name change, is one
of the few remaining Great Lakes."
*
"Doesn't it take more than one guy to make a Junta?"
*
"They ate the last real swan years ago. Those are mechanical, like all
the other wildlife in this preserve."
*
"Fourth floor," announced the see-through elevator, "farm land, Official
University of Mexico, restaurant row, Museum of Twentieth Century Arts,
Artists Quarter, impenetrable rain forest."
*
"It must have had something to do with the collapse of Western
Civilization."
"Oh . . . did that happen while we were asleep?"
She answered, "More or less. You remember that plague stuff the
Presidents of America were always swearing they weren't using?"
*
"Some kind of chariot appeared out of the sky a few weeks ago. It hung
suspended over the apex of the Great Pyramid and a strange dark god
descended from within it."
"Zanzibar!"
"I think maybe it was. This god of the chariot inscribed a strange
message on the upper face of the pyramid and then departed," the girl went
on. "That's why the pyramid tribes are angry."
"A miracle made them mad?"
"They've already got a god they worship, this simply confused them."
*
"NAPPERS! SUCCESS! WE HAVE IT!"
*
*
*
--
tinmi...@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
Since when is a mechanical cow an act of God?
< Goulart
dave hillstrom
wrote:
and there we have the complete readers digest version of this book.
now, class, if youd turn to page 387 in our text...
--
dave hillstrom mhm15x4 zrbj
this signature is NOT for mimus. so there.
but it is for hatchetmama and shirley and smee.
mimus
The scary part is that all that is more or less rationally connected in
the book (with divers alarums and excursions).
> now, class, if youd turn to page 387 in our text...
Damn, that's not a Goulart novel-- his rarely run 150 . . . .
--
tinmi...@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
_Thurb_, tinkle, boing, fump, twang. Music, by
heaven. Music.
< _The Thurb Revolution_
Alie...@gmail.com
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:19:32 -0400, dave hillstrom wrote:
The scary part is that those who can't see the connections think
those of us who can are crazy...
Mark L. Fergerson
Lorrill Buyens
Scourge of the alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk Seas, yo-ho-hoed:
I'm not surprised. He used to write stories about Hollywood for _Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine_ that were always totally outrageous and yet totally plausible.
--
Lorrill Buyens
MHM: 9x1; Smeeter: #21; WSD: #3; Gutter Chix0r #19
Alcatroll Labs; Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Division
"dsysm, its sooooo smooth and clesr."
- Dave Hillstrom's ringing endorsement of mead, in
aav3f
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Lorrill Buyens <buy...@interlacken.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>I'm not surprised. He used to write stories about Hollywood for _Ellery Queen's
>Mystery Magazine_ that were always totally outrageous and yet totally plausible.
If you enjoy that kind of thing, look for old issues of Mark Evanier's
"Crossfire" comic and his essays in CBG and elsewhere. Very funy stuff,
based on his experiences in la-la land.
Ted