tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post7365253312170105183..comments2023-05-14T21:11:23.699-04:00Comments on CHEESEBURGER BROWN: Story Wallah: The Automatic Marlboro - Section III, sub-section (b)Cheeseburger Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-22718688989444708452011-06-06T17:17:00.299-04:002011-06-06T17:17:00.299-04:00Towelette, that ought to say. Damn you, autocorrec...Towelette, that ought to say. Damn you, autocorrect.<br /><br />CBBCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-22691221122243239122011-06-06T17:16:32.249-04:002011-06-06T17:16:32.249-04:00Dear Teddy,
...These zorannics barely manage to m...Dear Teddy,<br /><br /><i>...These zorannics barely manage to make it two centuries, and that is with massive amounts of effort. Jeremiah lasted TEN TIMES THAT...</i><br /><br />Too true, my friend. If nothing else that might put some perspective on just how far into the future SIMON OF SPACE actually takes place -- there's been a lot of time for innovation.<br /><br /><i>Tim blew up the sun, so Sol ENDED right after him. If we're on Mars, Jeremiah hasn't gone back in time yet.</i><br /><br />Bear in mind the gaps, Teddy. When Tim and an iteration of Jeremiah were sent to the Sun to dispose of their out-of-control object, their mission was considered successful by the powers that be. In fact, I haven't checked my notes, but I think several <i>centuries</i> go by before it becomes readily apparent that the Sun is ailing.<br /><br />You are right, though, that this story takes place before any of that. In this current story Ares has yet to develop their military outpost at Titan.<br /><br /><i>WHAT THE HELL IS EVENT ZERO?</i><br /><br />THE SECRET MATHEMATIC will continue in due course. Once again, we at CheeseburgerBrown Co apologize for the delay and would like to offer you a small lemon-scented toilette while you wait.<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-17533792064162377772011-06-06T17:07:26.991-04:002011-06-06T17:07:26.991-04:00Dear SaintPeter,
This is such a fabulous line, st...Dear SaintPeter,<br /><br /><i>This is such a fabulous line, straight out of pulp fiction or a B-rate movie. I love it!</i><br /><br />Cool, thank you very much, sir! You know, anytime you use the term "Martian" it can either work just the way you've pegged, or it just sounds like the worst kind of hackneyed and archaic tripe. I'm glad I dodged the bullet here.<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-43353245318364576602011-06-06T17:04:41.882-04:002011-06-06T17:04:41.882-04:00Dear Sheik,
Do you think I was harping on the poi...Dear Sheik,<br /><br />Do you think I was harping on the point too blatantly?<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-35669768870890994132011-06-02T11:50:59.243-04:002011-06-02T11:50:59.243-04:00Event Zero is still crucial to several major plot ...Event Zero is still crucial to several major plot points. It's out there, in another novel.<br /><br />But yeah, considering what Marlboro said at the beginning of the story, he's somehow going to succeed at the auto-prolonging effort. I doubt that they're going to come up with the new exec bodies in one night, but theirs will be the breakthrough that allows self-healing and reproduction to become more than a possibility.<br /><br />Appropriately, today's captcha is a portmanteau of Zorannic force: "zorce".Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-7661718558923252762011-06-02T03:56:37.105-04:002011-06-02T03:56:37.105-04:00"And I saw Jeremiah's face.
Like the hum..."And I saw Jeremiah's face.<br /><br />Like the human executive I had glimpsed on Maja's World Train, his skin was both leathery and coppery at the same time, creased and wrinkled with the record of a range of expressions, crow's feet at the corner of his eyes and pinched in the corners of his mouth. Unlike the first human executive I had seen Jeremiah had no hair, though he did have faint traces of eyebrows composed of short, translucent fibres. His nostrils were mere slits, his ears faint parabolas of skin around similar slits. His neck was thin, and his face narrow. His hard black eyes were utterly unchanged."<br /><br />This sounds pretty close to the descriptions we've been treated to. However, these zorannics barely manage to make it two centuries, and that is with massive amounts of effort. Jeremiah lasted TEN TIMES THAT when he was sent to biblical era galilee and came back the long way, including much of that time being spent decapitated. I think they're going to make a new body for the executives, one that doesn't need nearly as much servicing, one more along the lines of "My auto-immune system is orders of magnitude more sophisticated than yours, and can even repair near-mortal damage without assistance." (SoS, Chapter 33)<br /><br />Remember now: Tim blew up the sun, so Sol ENDED right after him. If we're on Mars, Jeremiah hasn't gone back in time yet.<br /><br />Also, Mr. CBB: so many questions have been answered. We know what Something Wicked is, we haven't fought it but we've seen it. We've met Dr. Zoran and seen how he comes up with The Secret Math. We've seen Zorannics at many stages in their evolution. We know much of the burgerverse, but there are two nagging issues, hanging chads as it were. One: it would be fascinating to see the solar politic get set up, with the beginning of the queen of space position and meeting the other two races and all those things, I'm sure there are interesting stories there. Two, and this one is most important: WHAT THE HELL IS EVENT ZERO? It's still going to happen, right? It didn't get accidentally wiped out by a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff?<br /><br />Just wanted to check.<br /><br />TRHTeddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06429915965397673079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-85882128631165743332011-06-01T17:17:04.402-04:002011-06-01T17:17:04.402-04:00"...help me save the Zorannics from the New M..."...help me save the Zorannics from the New Martians."<br />This is such a fabulous line, straight out of pulp fiction or a B-rate movie. I love it!<br /><br />Air seems to be much more useful now. I must beware the unreliable narrator. Tricksy Devil.SaintPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02064605142705446251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-42458011684515626422011-06-01T12:03:49.636-04:002011-06-01T12:03:49.636-04:00Also:
It's really weird how small and short-l...Also:<br /><br /><i>It's really weird how small and short-lived people are, and how big our lives seem when we're in their trenches. Overwhelming, our mammal trivia.</i><br /><br />It's funny, how true this turns out to be in his own life a few paragraphs later.Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-60271784863232206512011-06-01T12:01:28.561-04:002011-06-01T12:01:28.561-04:00Sacred faeces indeed.
Act III is going nuclear.Sacred faeces indeed.<br /><br />Act III is going nuclear.Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.com