A great sentence

[dreamer_easy]

"He moored the boat to the cliff by means of the powerful suction cups he'd brought for the purpose."
- Michael Moorcock, The Final Programme

In unrelated news, (most of) the Luther Arkwright comix arrived today. Octobriana looks fucking stupid.

Comments

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

Octobriana may look stupid, but her true history (as opposed to the version presented in Bryan Talbot's fiction) is an absolute gold-mine.

Did you know, for example, that she is a public domain character who derives her superpowers from sex and coca-cola, and that she is approximately 6,000 years old (adopting a different persona every few centuries) and has a dimensionally transcendentalv golden sphere called the Wondermachine that hovers in mid-air with the brilliance of a sun! Its crewed by displaced Soviet submariners whom she uses to keep her energy reserves topped up!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

There's an essay up the back of one of the issues about this! Wild stuff!

In the audio version - I'm missing the comic issue, for now - she gives the source of her strength as "sex and vodka", sidestepping the trademark problem. :-)

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

My personal theory is that she is a future incarnation of the Time Lady Ace seen in Death Comes to Time....

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That sentence is an example of sheer beauty.

I'm just reading Don Watson's Weasel Words. Many of the empty adminspeak terms are familiar from my years of tarting up Powerpoint presentations. >:-)