TALES OF THE DARK GOAT O' PENN'S WOODS, NIGHT TWELVE
6MIDNIGHT!
(Work account access MOSTLY restored, but currently kind of spread across a couple machines.)
GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS? IT’S TARANTULA SEASON IN CALIFORNIA! Whoo-hoo! Who doesn’t love spiders? Me for one.
H. G. Wells was best known for science fiction when I was a boy, but that was some time ago. George Orwell is said to have described him as “too sane to understand the modern world”, but that could be said about a lot of people not in politics. Also according to Wikipedia Wells so influenced the real exploration of Mars that a rather large hole on that planet was named after him, but probably not by the Martians themselves. Apparently Wells’ last book, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945), suggested that it might not be a bad idea for humanity to be replaced by another species, but stopped short of actually saying cats. Roy Glashan’s Library is where I got this. And who is this Roy Glashan, you ask? If you find out, let me know. Well, here ya go:
Herbert George Wells
THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0609221h.html#c58
Bertrand “Odilon” Redon
…Is our guest ghost artist tonight. Weird stuff - I like it.
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Man, Odilon Redon was amazing.
I saw
Maybe I should go to bed.
@mehcuda67 - That is a jolly-looking spider, isn’t it? They say tarantulas are really quite nice.
@aetris When I was in college, I really wanted a tarantula. Didn’t think it would be a problem as long as I usually kept it in a cage. (Keeping the crickets to feed it might have been problematic). However, my roommate said that if a tarantula moved into the room, I would be looking for a new roommate. And furthermore, my chances of getting a girl into the room would instantly evaporate. (To be honest, I was more than a little intrigued about what kind of girls might still be interested if I had a tarantula in my room, but I digress). So in the interest of peace (and maybe piece) I deferred getting a pet tarantula to my bucket list.
It is well known that I Math inconsistently, but does that spider looking thing have 10 legs?
@JnKL - You’re RIGHT! It should have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs able to inject venom. We must submit a complaint to @riotdemon.
@aetris @JnKL I didn’t know that I was the scapegoat.
@aetris is clown with the tear-away face. Here in a flash and gone without a trace.
@RiotDemon - You’re a volmod AND an artist - fix that picture!
@mediocrebot -
@aetris what about this one?
@JnKL My friend, it’s SYMBOLISM. Not only does it not have to be strictly accurate, the less strictly accurate it is the better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_(arts)
Also: As you clearly already know, a spider-looking thing is not a spider.