ext_12254 ([identity profile] lassiterfics.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] be_themoon 2010-06-29 07:27 pm (UTC)

Re: a world without stars

AUGH AUGH AUGH YOU BREAK IT YOU BUY IT, GIRL, NOW YOU HAVE TO BUY MY HEART. As if it wasn't yours already.

The United Federation of the Pacific!! Oh absolutely. 2+2=??!??

each time she learns a new version, it's the one that's always existed.
YES, OMG.

So I gotta wonder if those early voyages by vikings and Polynesians, by Magellan and Columbus and Vasco de Gama ever took place, because weren't they navigating by stars? Did the Age of Sail ever exist? The Age of Discovery. And how many books and poems and songs don't exist now because they relied heavily on star metaphors? The star is an INTEGRAL SYMBOL, like, everywhere. How does our mythology warp without it? If we have to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", then what did little prodigy Mozart do variations of? Are the names in Hollywood's Walk of Fame now inscribed in a different shape?

Do you remember the Hitchhiker's Guide book where there was a planet where the sky was just a blank space, so no one ever paid attention to it? Earth has become that! What is the myth of the sky without stars? What does it all MEAN?!

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