Marginalia

[coalescent]

Genius: "FACT! As of today, November 10, 2004, it is one year since 'Hey Ya' was released in the UK. So all you Beyonces and Lucy Lius and Babydolls GET OFF THE FLOOR.' And keep reading down to the 'note to DJs' at the end ...

Via tamaranth (several days ago), the Guardian interviews Neal Stephenson.

At Locus, Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person like The Incredibles a whole damn lot.

Philip Pullman clearly never saw 'Isaac and Ishmael', or maybe just disagrees: "The Christian right in America is the mirror image of the Islamic fundamentalists," he says.

An adaptation of The Master and Margarita causes controversy: 'Russia's Orthodox church has reacted with dismay to a film of the seminal novel The Master and Margarita, saying it offers a version of the Gospel that is "nothing but negative" and fearing it will offend or confuse many believers.' Shocking.

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

In an emotional sense? Or as a writer? Or both?

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

They were talking about books that resulted in 'epiphanies' (not necessarily religious/spiritual epiphanies) and he mentioned it as a book that had a big impact on him as a person and changed the way he thought. So more the emotional sense. But I suspect that if it affected him in the emotional sense, something of that will carry over into his professional life as a writer.