Save Mars!
Sep. 18th, 2003 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieHeh. I think I amused most people in my poetry class with this week's poem, which, I might add, is completely autobiographical.
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Paid out more money to the bookstore today. We have to read "The Dead" from Joyce's Dubliners for Tuesday in Irish Lit., and it was actually cheaper to buy the Dover Thrift edition of the entire book ($1.50) rather than spend $3.00 and copy all thirty pages of the library's copy. Ay-yi-yi.
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Norgol amuses me greatly. Got this in my e-mail this morning from "him":
Princes and Princesses of Earth,
I am shocked--SHOCKED--to see this unbecoming accusation regarding the true Norgolian intentions toward Earth.
Of course, we expect regime change; but that is only for your own good. What good have Earth's current regimes done? Those of China, North Korea, Iran etc. are murderous, repressive regimes. Those of North America (and South America for that matter) are cannibalistic and care not how their SUVs destroy the biosphere. And wasteful, spending billions of dollars for armies aimed against other countries with their own armies. Does this make sense?
Clearly Earth needs a change of regime. But it won't be done with tanks; we peaceful Norgolians have no "military" left, we gave up such foolish things before we reached for the stars. We have other means--and you'll be grateful once it happens. And never mind, your own solar hydrogen reserves will pay for it.
Yours,
Prince Norgol
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Prince Norgol:
Ah, now your reasons for infering on Earth become clearer. You want to clean up the neighborhood a bit before you move in. Were you planning on asking us if we minded having Norgolians barging in on us less than an AU away? But obviously you don't care much about messing around with things that aren't necessarily yours - your willingness to drown Mars exhibits that particular tendency. Why do you want Mars? Surely there are nicer lumps of rock closer to your own end of the galaxy. Your motives seem a little dubious, at best. At worst, it looks like you're setting up a Martian military base as a first step to taking over the Earth. If you're going to assume we're barbarians, we can hardly be blamed for thinking the same of you. Show us otherwise, and maybe then we could trust each other a little.
-- Ungrateful Princess
I think I've found my own version of these Strongbad e-mails people are always talking about. Hehehe. It's really cool to have a published sci-fi author teaching a bio class--it's definitely Bio for English majors. We get to talk about characters and plot elements and stuff, and very occassionally, she'll talk about writing SF books, which is so cool.
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I get to ride a bike! Ellen's bike! Wheee! If I can remember how to ride one (I was, like, ten the last time I was on a bicycle) I get to use it sometimes!
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And finally, have finished the history paper that's due tomorrow. (Did most of it Monday, did the rest yesterday, revised a bit this afternoon.) I have a feeling this one's gonna be the one where the grade gets dropped (do all four of the essays and the lowest grade is dropped), but that's okay. It's done now.
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Paid out more money to the bookstore today. We have to read "The Dead" from Joyce's Dubliners for Tuesday in Irish Lit., and it was actually cheaper to buy the Dover Thrift edition of the entire book ($1.50) rather than spend $3.00 and copy all thirty pages of the library's copy. Ay-yi-yi.
*
Norgol amuses me greatly. Got this in my e-mail this morning from "him":
Princes and Princesses of Earth,
I am shocked--SHOCKED--to see this unbecoming accusation regarding the true Norgolian intentions toward Earth.
Of course, we expect regime change; but that is only for your own good. What good have Earth's current regimes done? Those of China, North Korea, Iran etc. are murderous, repressive regimes. Those of North America (and South America for that matter) are cannibalistic and care not how their SUVs destroy the biosphere. And wasteful, spending billions of dollars for armies aimed against other countries with their own armies. Does this make sense?
Clearly Earth needs a change of regime. But it won't be done with tanks; we peaceful Norgolians have no "military" left, we gave up such foolish things before we reached for the stars. We have other means--and you'll be grateful once it happens. And never mind, your own solar hydrogen reserves will pay for it.
Yours,
Prince Norgol
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Prince Norgol:
Ah, now your reasons for infering on Earth become clearer. You want to clean up the neighborhood a bit before you move in. Were you planning on asking us if we minded having Norgolians barging in on us less than an AU away? But obviously you don't care much about messing around with things that aren't necessarily yours - your willingness to drown Mars exhibits that particular tendency. Why do you want Mars? Surely there are nicer lumps of rock closer to your own end of the galaxy. Your motives seem a little dubious, at best. At worst, it looks like you're setting up a Martian military base as a first step to taking over the Earth. If you're going to assume we're barbarians, we can hardly be blamed for thinking the same of you. Show us otherwise, and maybe then we could trust each other a little.
-- Ungrateful Princess
I think I've found my own version of these Strongbad e-mails people are always talking about. Hehehe. It's really cool to have a published sci-fi author teaching a bio class--it's definitely Bio for English majors. We get to talk about characters and plot elements and stuff, and very occassionally, she'll talk about writing SF books, which is so cool.
*
I get to ride a bike! Ellen's bike! Wheee! If I can remember how to ride one (I was, like, ten the last time I was on a bicycle) I get to use it sometimes!
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And finally, have finished the history paper that's due tomorrow. (Did most of it Monday, did the rest yesterday, revised a bit this afternoon.) I have a feeling this one's gonna be the one where the grade gets dropped (do all four of the essays and the lowest grade is dropped), but that's okay. It's done now.
