Monday, May 27, 2002
Yes, I am blogging at four-thirty in the morning. It's Memorial Day, and I don't have to work. Ha.
Actually, I have just finished reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos. Now, I love the Vorkosigan series, and Bujold has created some pretty strange things in the Vorkosiverse, but this one... well, this book has just left me feeling almost -- I don't know -- unsettled, in a way. You know what I think it is? In all of the Vorkosigan books, I think Ethan has the most direct reference to anything like organized religion -- including repeated reference to God the Father (though not God the Son, presumably because recognition of God the Son would require at least some recognition of Mary the Mother), as well as reference to religious education, sin, and even something as simple as kneeling to pray. It's kind of hard for one to distance that from Christianity as we know it -- especially considering that the religious structure of Athos in the Vorkosiverse was no doubt derived from Christianity anyway -- but the society of the planet Athos is Just Not Right. An all-male, reproducing society, in which women are regarded as lesser and evil, something not to be even seen or contacted with... yet it's the only society that seems to have such a religious structure (unless I have seriously missed something in the other books, which I suppose is possible). It's just... odd and disconcerting.
Still on the topic of the Vorkosiverse, I received such a cool present yesterday. Cally should share her title of Gift Giver Extraordinaire, because Erica's gift was really cool too. I mean, come on, what Bujold fan doesn't want a pair of ImpSec Eyes? Erica, you've made up for those virtual chocolates now. Hee hee.
The note was just as good as the gift though:
I tried to think what would be appropriate for a pair of authors who manage to so cleverly whitewash Tom Riddle, and who are also Bujold fans, and it occurred to me that you both thoroughly deserve a position in some organization where manipulating people's better impulses in a sneaky, underhanded fashion is valued as much as it ought to be. So... here are your ImpSec lapel pins. The eyes of Horus are upon you. Enjoy. TAA rules.
The eyes of Horus... Ha ha ha!
Fan fiction might not be lucrative, though it does earn one some fun gifts -- but even better, it's given me several great friends. Thanks, Erica.
Wow, that was really sappy. Say it with me: Awwwww.
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