-Are you sure your husband's dead?

The first time I saw the trailer for THE TRUMAN SHOW, I thought they'd made an adaptation of TIME OUT OF JOINT until about 3/4 of the way through.

I'm pretty sure I remember a Winona Ryder interview where she raved about how wonderful it was to be able to just go in and do her performance. No hours in makeup, futzing endlessly with hair, etc.

Error
It's interesting that Dick, in that devastating afterword, uses the word Error to describe his friends decision to take drugs. Phil was a keen amateur student of Greek (he was obsessed with the first century Christians) and he would have known that Error is arguably the best translation of the Greek word…

I, too, kept thinking of IJ while rereading SD. There's a lot more to IJ (several hundred pages more, for one thing :).

I agree that _All that Heaven Allows_ is a good starting place. Fans of _Mad Men_ really need to see it, BTW.

Plays that aren't Shakespeare, Mamet or Shepard…

I'm enjoying the HDB canon, but, hey, Tristram Shandy, anyone?

Resnais and Duras
Resnais's first feature length film, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959), was based on a Margaret Duras novel. His second (1961) was Last Year at Marienbad, so there's that relationship, anyway.

Wow! From all the comments, down here and up there, I'm really glad I didn't read the interview. I started skimming it and found Duras's attitude really annoying. So I stopped.

Crazy, crazy book. It looks like a children's book, but it nearly as multi-faceted as Riddley.

I was doubly thrilled by this book. I loved it long ago, but I was almost afraid to revisit it. I'm pretty sure I was even more impressed this time.

Destruction, yes, but I think Hoban strongly implies that by figuring out how gunpowder works, mankind will once again, one day, have boats in the air and pictures on the wind, and, presumably, again, destroy them.

For something along these lines, don't miss Howard Waldrop's incomparable short story:

Argh! That was supposed to go in the next thread down, about future societies worshiping today's superheroes.

For something along these lines, don't miss Howard Waldrop's incomparable short story:
"Heirs of the Perisphere". In a post-apocalyptic world, 3 AI powered icons (a mouse, a duck and a dog-like creature…think about it) go on an epic journey. I won't say more…

Wow Swibble I like it. Not sure I buy it, but I like it. :)

"if Goodparley can read the captions of St. Eustace's wall painting and come up with a recipe for gunpowder, who are we to say he's wrong?"

I certainly got the feeling that there's a lot of casual telepathy that Riddley doesn't call attention to since he assumes we're familiar with it.

Speaking of Hoban's children's books, both The Mouse and His Child and The Marzipan Pig are pretty intriguing for "grown-up" reading.