More from the Doctor

[dreamer_easy]

"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

"I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. A new high-end Cadillic will go ten or fifteen miles faster if you give it a full dose of 'Carmelita'."

- Hunter S. Thompson

When HST is in his pursuing justice mode, he reminds me of Xanthian; when he goes off into one of his mad pseudo-autobiographical stories about drugs and crime, he reminds me of Jerry Cornelius.

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Please go and look on my LJ. I found domething for you.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That's fabulous - thanks! (Smith is said to have begun undressing himself with the sheer excitement of his discovery, though this is probably apocryphal. :-)

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Well, Archimedes ran naked throught the streets of Athens when he discovered the law of displacement. Is there a corealtion between making an exciting discovery and getting naked? Does anyone out there know?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I would have to say "yes" to that one.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[pedanther]

So, in fact, there *is* a correlation between making an exciting discovery and getting naked, but the causation runs in the opposite direction to what murasaki_1966 had assumed?

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly interested in the urge to throw off things when making a greatdiscovery, or having a religous experience. There seems to be a correlation between huge emotion and stripping your clothes off.

And, yes, I know Archimedes was already naked. It amuses me that he didn't grab a towel (did the Ancient Greeks have towels?) before running through the streets. Now I know the Greeks viewed nudity differently to us, but a naked shouting philosopher must have been a bit of a shock. Nudity in Ancient Greece was kept for home, sporting events and training, and the public baths/gymnasium. At least as far as I'm aware.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

"I've found it! I've found it!"
"Hardly worth the effort, was it, dear?"

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

*cough, ahem*

And I thought I had a dirty mind.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

most people would simply remain in whatever state of dress they were in when the experience struck

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[gdwessel.livejournal.com]

You SO need to read Transmetropolitan sometime.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*makes a note of it*