23. Dezember 196*

Clarice Starling

hat an diesem Tag Geburtstag.

(Thomas Harris, "Hannibal" 1999)

wünsche ich all meinen Lesern!

Babas Fotos

Zwischendurch quergelesen:

Una Troy, "Wir sind Sieben"

Das Buch habe ich schon sehr lange, die schmale DTV-Ausgabe ist schon recht verschlissen. Ab und zu muß ich einfach mal reingucken, weil die Story so nett ist. Seltsamerweise habe ich mich bei diesem Buch noch nie bemüht, das Original zu finden, sondern war immer mit der Übersetzung ganz zufrieden.

"Eine blutrote, dampfende Flüssigkeit.
Männer hocken um sie herum."

(Heinrich Spoerl, Die Feuerzangenbowle, 1933)

Erste Sätze

"The house was in waiting; low, an still, and grey, with clean curtains in the long windows, and a fresh line of white across the edge of the steps.

(A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, 1964)

Erste Sätze

Neu gelesen:

Joanne Harris, "The Lollipop Shoes"

Die Fortsetzung von "Chocolat", aber nach meinem bisherigen Eindruck zugleich völlig unabhängig von dem ersten Band. Ob er auch so gut ist, wird sich noch zeigen...

Zitate gibt's (noch) nicht allzuviele, eins füge ich sinngemäß aus dem Kopf hier ein, weitere werden nachgereicht, sobald bei IMDB ein paar mehr eingetragen werden.

[from trailer]
Polygraph Operator: I'm going to ask you a series of control questions. Are you currently in a seated position?
Klaatu: Yes.
Polygraph Operator: Are you human?
Klaatu: My body is.
Polygraph Operator: Do you feel pain?
Klaatu: My Body does.
Polygraph Operator: Are you aware of an impending attack on the planet earth?
Klaatu: You should let me go.

Dr. Benson: What were you before you were human?
Klaatu: It would only frighten you.

Regina Jackson: Why have you come to our planet?
Klaatu: YOUR planet?

Helen Benson: You said you were here to save us!
Klaatu: I said I was here to save the Earth.

Klaatu: If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.

Klaatu: There are some things I can't do.
Jacob Benson: But you have powers.
Klaatu: I'm sorry.
Jacob Benson: Please. Please!
Klaatu: Jacob, nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing. Everything is simply transformed.

Professor Barnhardt: There must be alternatives. You must have some technology that could solve our problem.
Klaatu: Your problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.
Professor Barnhardt: Then help us change.
Klaatu: I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat each other.
Professor Barnhardt: But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually.
Klaatu: Most of them don't make it.
Professor Barnhardt: Yours did. How?
Klaatu: Our sun was dying. We had to evolve in order to survive.
Professor Barnhardt: So it was only when your world was threated with destruction that you became what you are now.
Klaatu: Yes.
Professor Barnhardt: Well that's where we are. You say we're on the brink of destruction and you're right. But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment. Don't take it from us, we are close to an answer.