tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post4305843791806466435..comments2024-03-28T18:59:57.979+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: A Spiritual SpectrumKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-52190272721071119342016-03-16T07:00:16.442+00:002016-03-16T07:00:16.442+00:00Hi, David!
Oh, boy! Even S.M. Stirling would be h...Hi, David!<br /><br />Oh, boy! Even S.M. Stirling would be hard put to top THAT! (Smiles)<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-80570692811383124932016-03-15T20:59:45.707+00:002016-03-15T20:59:45.707+00:00Paul:
"...offerings are made to a fictional g...Paul:<br />"...offerings are made to a fictional goddess created for a cinema film (so what is the status of "belief"?)"<br /><br />An apparently true anecdote, put to pen by Nury Vittachi, from the late 1990s:<br />"You know how weddings are often held in traditional Chinese settings for unwed dead people, ghosts, spirits, and so on? Well, a college in Taiwan has just held a multiple wedding ceremony to appease four sets of unfulfilled lovers 'from mythology' ... [including] Jack and Rose from the James Cameron movie *Titanic*."<br /><br />Truth is AT LEAST as strange as fiction.David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.com