Chris Howard's Writing & Art: Tell me O muse...which one?

22 March 2005

Tell me O muse...which one?

Trying to remember...Terpsichore, Clio, Thalia, Calliope...who's the muse who handled clichés? Urania! That's it. It's got to be Urania. Come on, with a name like that.

John Scalzi's editing the Spring 2006 edition of Subterranean Magazine, and he wants fiction and non-fiction on the theme of Science Fiction Clichés. And he's even giving us time for inspiration. Check it out.

Mar 22, 2005 2:36:30 PM | Writing

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Not a lot, but enough I wrote another 1000 words or so last night, not a lot, but it keeps the story going.

Chaos just isn't nice Aristotle, following Pythagoras--as well as your typical Athenian in the street--thought the unlimited, the infinite, was evil, and the limited good. Evil is unordered, chaotic. The good is ordered and finite. Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited, as the Pythagoreans conjectured, and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult- to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of...