Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Director: Stanley Kubrick; written by Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
Columbia Pictures (1964) (more…)
Tag: Olaf Stapledon
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December 12, 2013 James J. O'Meara
“The Wild Boys Smile”:
Reflections on Olaf Stapledon’s Odd John, Part 3Part 3 of 3
While smiling a lot, the colonists in Odd John don’t talk much at all, which just adds to their creepiness.
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Part 2 of 3 (part 1 here)
Alan Watts’ notion of “fascinating ugliness” leads us to another important theme is the disquieting or even repulsive “beauty” of John and his kind. Here is Jacqueline:
But though passably ‘human,’ according to the standards of Homo sapiens, she was strange. Were I an imaginative writer, and not merely a journalist, I might be able to suggest symbolically something of the almost “creepy” effect she had on me, something of its remote and sleepy power. (more…)
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Olaf Stapledon
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest
London: Methuen, 1935 (Etext)“Well,” said John, “I’m thought queer because I have more brains than most children.”
After making my way through The Flames, and having read Last and First Men already, I decided to press ahead in my Kindle anthology by tackling Odd John, (more…)