http://monroelab.net/blog/?p=194 Not summer's bloom lies ahead of us Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:34:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://monroelab.net/blog/?p=194&cpage=1#comment-136 Barista » Blog Archive » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:19:35 +0000 http://monroelab.net/blog/?p=194#comment-136 [...] Personally I think Lem and Ballard stand in the relationship with their culture, literatures and times. The two were both apostate doctors. There is a good tribute to Lem at Weber’s Polar Night, while the official Lem site is a good indication of the man. His autobiographical fragments are typical of his dry sense of humour - In my fourth year I learned to write, but had nothing of great importance to communicate by that means. The first letter I wrote to my father, from Skole, having gone there with my mother, was a terse account of how all by myself I defecated in a country outhouse that had a board with a hole. What I left out of my report was that in addition I threw into that hole all the keys of our host, who also was a physician… [...] [...] Personally I think Lem and Ballard stand in the relationship with their culture, literatures and times. The two were both apostate doctors. There is a good tribute to Lem at Weber’s Polar Night, while the official Lem site is a good indication of the man. His autobiographical fragments are typical of his dry sense of humour – In my fourth year I learned to write, but had nothing of great importance to communicate by that means. The first letter I wrote to my father, from Skole, having gone there with my mother, was a terse account of how all by myself I defecated in a country outhouse that had a board with a hole. What I left out of my report was that in addition I threw into that hole all the keys of our host, who also was a physician… [...]

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