Comments on: Cordwainer Smith Quotes http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/cordwainer-smith-quotes.html About his science fiction and his life, run by his daughter Rosana Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Laslett http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/cordwainer-smith-quotes.html/comment-page-1#comment-769 Chris Laslett Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:27:02 +0000 http://cordwainer.your-kitchen-shop.com/blog/?p=12#comment-769 The most evocative phrase for me is "The Suffocating Benevolence of The Instrumentality", which I believe was a strapline from one of the early books. This would make an amazing T shirt :) I have to admit to borrowing character names for online gaming, which has had the benefit not only of starting conversations with other fans but also of allowing me to spread the word. Although the conversation tends to go "Lost Cmell? Where did you get that?" "It's the name of a girlygirl in a Cordwainer Smith book." "But you're a guy." "Yes, so?" "...Okay..." The most evocative phrase for me is “The Suffocating Benevolence of The Instrumentality”, which I believe was a strapline from one of the early books. This would make an amazing T shirt :)
I have to admit to borrowing character names for online gaming, which has had the benefit not only of starting conversations with other fans but also of allowing me to spread the word. Although the conversation tends to go “Lost Cmell? Where did you get that?” “It’s the name of a girlygirl in a Cordwainer Smith book.” “But you’re a guy.” “Yes, so?” “…Okay…”

]]> By: David Doughan http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/cordwainer-smith-quotes.html/comment-page-1#comment-732 David Doughan Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:06:26 +0000 http://cordwainer.your-kitchen-shop.com/blog/?p=12#comment-732 Sorry - I forgot to say that my second quotation is not from "The Dead Lady ...", but from "On the Gem Planet" - and of course the sixth word should read "violently". But I'm sure Cordwainerites will have spotted that already.... Sorry – I forgot to say that my second quotation is not from “The Dead Lady …”, but from “On the Gem Planet” – and of course the sixth word should read “violently”.

But I’m sure Cordwainerites will have spotted that already….

]]> By: David Doughan http://cordwainer-smith.com/blog/cordwainer-smith-quotes.html/comment-page-1#comment-730 David Doughan Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:27:20 +0000 http://cordwainer.your-kitchen-shop.com/blog/?p=12#comment-730 Madness is always better than X, and X to each patient is individual, personal, secret and overwhelmingly important. ... Wedder reformed the culture so vioently that whatever had been slovenly now became atrocious. Madness is always better than X, and X to each patient is individual, personal, secret and overwhelmingly important.

… Wedder reformed the culture so vioently that whatever had been slovenly now became atrocious.

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