Comments on: "You're maybe going to take this journey with me for a spell, People aren't stones."

"You're maybe going to take this journey with me for a spell, People aren't stones."

divabat — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:56:23 -0800

"... That's the way with epiphanies: You can't know in advance what they'll be. Even me. I can see them coming, but I can't understand something until I understand it."

T he man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:09:56 -0800

I want to see the wacky tawdry reality TV show version of this, one with pop-up cartoon thought bubbles

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:19:33 -0800

That is really one of my favorite short stories in a while.

By: Palindromedary

Palindromedary — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:40:28 -0800

Thank you.

By: gagglezoomer

gagglezoomer — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:10:42 -0800

Wanted to make some sort of crap-town joke tying this to the Jekyll and Hyde thread from earlier this week. Didn't. Still didn't stop me from submitting this comment. That's the best in terms of maturity you're going to get out of me at this juncture. Or, maybe I'm not really that funny and this is just a cover in terms of insecurity, and what not. Who knows.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:51:24 -0800

Interesting and well-written story. Thanks!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:43:03 -0800

Absolutely loved it. I'm currently obsessed with memory-messing (omniscience, time-travel, mind-erasing, etc.) love stories. Great stuff! Did not like how some of the details were straight out of The Time Traveller's Wife though.

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:47:07 -0800

This was a great read, thanks. (The Boston/Cambridge porn -- Punjabi Dhaba! Diesel Cafe! -- was a nice mint on the pillow as well, and somehow it's fitting that, for me anyway, it added an extra layer of nostalgia.)

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:05:34 -0800

The ocean feels utterly forgiving, like you can dump almost anything into the ocean's body and it will still love us, and Judy and Doug cling to each other like children in a storm cellar and watch the waves.

Excellent.

By: Mooski

Mooski — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:06:21 -0800

That's a really, really awesome story to read when you should be getting ready for work on a Friday morning, and I thank you 1) for posting it, and 2) for the ruminating I will do all day about whether or not being just slightly late this morning will have changed anything about my life.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:43:33 -0800

It's good stuff. Hugo nominated, and hopefully Hugo-winning!

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:33:44 -0800

Story of my life.

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:33:42 -0800

Wow. That's really something.

By: Tesseractive

Tesseractive — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:25:49 -0800

This goes really well with the story about the video store from an alternate timeline that came up a couple days ago. Put together they both remind me I really like short stories but I somehow forget.

By: jeather

jeather — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:28:57 -0800

I'm pretty indifferent to who wins in most of the Hugo categories this year, but this is one nominee I really want to win. (Also Remedial Chaos Theory.)

By: Turkey Glue

Turkey Glue — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:30:28 -0800

"To Marva, the main advantage of making an omelette is that when it falls apart halfway through, you can always claim you planned to make a scramble all along." Aw shit, the story knew I was going to read it! (That was fantastic. It's like a documentary about an overanalytical person's greatest fantasy and most crippling fear.)

By: malapropist

malapropist — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:56:58 -0800

Hah, nice story. I had a nice bit of deja vu when they mention Lady Gaga gets arrested after winning the Nobel Peace Prize; it was mentioned in that timeline of future events further down on the blue. SPOILER: I think Doug is an even more tragic character when it turns out at the end that things aren't as set in stone as he thinks they are. That gave me a sad.

By: KHAAAN!

KHAAAN! — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:37:27 -0800

I guess I get to be the Mefite sourpuss on this one. Yeah, the story was slickly written, and the premise had clever, marketable touches here and there, but all I got out of it was a slowly-building sense of seething irritation. I didn't like the way the story treated Doug, who was the character I identified with. Judy's 'there are always options' attitude...Ugh. I'm getting pissed off again, just thinking about her. Grar, and more grar, I say.

By: divabat

divabat — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:54:58 -0800

malapropist: that's how I found the story!

By: likeatoaster

likeatoaster — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:20:26 -0800

"The thing I like about Providence," says Doug, "is it's one of the American cities that knows its best days are behind it. So it's automatically decadent, and sort of European." This guy loves Providence as much as I do. What a delight!

By: subversiveasset

subversiveasset — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:02:26 -0800

I liked the pieces...although I think it was kinda purple...but then I read the comment by Nick pointing out that this story is about quantum uncertainty. Whoa.

By: Elementary Penguin

Elementary Penguin — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:18:31 -0800

SPOILER: I think Doug is an even more tragic character when it turns out at the end that things aren't as set in stone as he thinks they are. That gave me a sad. What makes it worse is that things aren't set in stone for him, but he thinks they are, because his past memories always change when he changes timelines. If he wasn't aware of his future in the current timeline, he could jump to a better one, but because he is aware of his future, he always does whatever he can to ensure he stays in it. It's pretty bleak.