Our move in is almost done... this was a long and painful weekend... i usually take some pride in not being tied to the internet all the time.. unlike a lot of people.. turns out that I am not that different.. our internet link is still down.. and that bugs me. Also our TV is on the blink.. no sound.. looks like we are going to need a new one... so there...
Also read, against my better judgment, a Ken Follet book. I was right, he is a truly trashy writer with really mediocre ideas and even worse narration skills. And then saw Fail-Safe, based on the book I have reviewed recently (The end of everything)... an excellent piece of work.. brings out the tension and mounting agony beautifully. My favourite scene was was General Bogan is talking to his opposite officer General Koniev who was in charge of air defenses in the USSR and at the moment they realise that the impending catastrophe is actually upon them, and that there is no way out, none at all, they also realise that they are not soldiers on opposite sides of the fence, they are not capitalist and communist opponents, they are simply men overwhelmed by the complexity of their own fears. And at that moment, Koniev says to Bogan, 'goodbye, my friend', an acknowledgement that they had both fought with tenacity and courage against almost impossible odds, but tinged with infinite sorrow, for they had fought in vain, and in spite of their best efforts, men would die in screaming agony, die in the false dawn of the mushroom cloud. Transistors and computers had replaced brave men, because we had deemed it expedient. And the price for such folly would be terrible.
Also read, against my better judgment, a Ken Follet book. I was right, he is a truly trashy writer with really mediocre ideas and even worse narration skills. And then saw Fail-Safe, based on the book I have reviewed recently (The end of everything)... an excellent piece of work.. brings out the tension and mounting agony beautifully. My favourite scene was was General Bogan is talking to his opposite officer General Koniev who was in charge of air defenses in the USSR and at the moment they realise that the impending catastrophe is actually upon them, and that there is no way out, none at all, they also realise that they are not soldiers on opposite sides of the fence, they are not capitalist and communist opponents, they are simply men overwhelmed by the complexity of their own fears. And at that moment, Koniev says to Bogan, 'goodbye, my friend', an acknowledgement that they had both fought with tenacity and courage against almost impossible odds, but tinged with infinite sorrow, for they had fought in vain, and in spite of their best efforts, men would die in screaming agony, die in the false dawn of the mushroom cloud. Transistors and computers had replaced brave men, because we had deemed it expedient. And the price for such folly would be terrible.
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