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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.214 |
The book is here in my hands. It's in fine fettle. Orders welcome. http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nemonymous_prices.htm | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.214 |
The members of this group who are in it: Stephen Bacon Steve Duffy Gary Fry Tony Lovell Gary McMahon | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.240.58.123 |
Des, how much should I add for postage to Belgium? | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.240.58.123 |
oops - I now see it is the same price for surface mail. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.240.58.123 |
oops - I now see it is the same price for surface mail. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
I love Tony's piece. Though he tells me he's revised it since the draft I read. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
Looks like something may have just jumped the queue in my TBR pile. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.214 |
I love Tony's piece. Though he tells me he's revised it since the draft I read. ============= As long as you don't tell anyone which piece is his!  | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
I think I've read most of Gary Fry's, Gary McMahon's and Steve Duffy's fiction, to the extent that I believe I'll be able to identify which story is theirs. I'm unfamiliar with Tony's work so far but I'm highly looking forward to reading it, if Mark's comment is anything to go by. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
Mine arrived this morning, and what a handsome volume it is! I'll be reading the book over the course of the next week - an appetiser course between novels. | ||
| Steveduffy (Steveduffy) Username: Steveduffy Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 86.159.105.54 |
My copy also arrived this morning - cheers, Des! Remember that little dance Snoopy used to do? I'm doing that right now. | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.253.185 |
I shall pick a copy up when I'm paid, Des... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
Got my copy, Des. It looks a smashing book. Just by reading the first line of each tale I think I've identified Mr Fry's and Mr McMahon's already... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Ok, pitch us your best guess . . . A pickled egg if you're right. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Either Zed and I are idiocyncratic stylists or equivalently shite. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
I reckon yours is Fragment of Life, and Zed's is Strange Scenes From An Unfinished Film. But bear in mind I've only based these deductions on reading the first line - that may change once I've read the entire book. Oh, and Des will kill me if I get anyone to confirm or deny anything, so try not to give anything away. Idiosyncratic stylists? - quality always burns bright, mate. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.150.111.93 |
Did you guess your own story, Steve? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.176 |
I think so. I can't be sure until I've read them all, but I think I recognise my own first line... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
I couldn't possibly comment. The egg shall remained preserved in vinegar until Des gives us permission to 'fess up. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.150.111.93 |
The Cern Zoo in Switzerland is possibly where our world will eventually go to be put out of its misery. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
Hopefully not before I've finished reading it, Des. Really liked 'Artis Eterne', and really really liked 'The Lion's Den', but 'Salmon Widow' ... wow. I hope the author has a dozen or so novels and several hundred short stories to their name, because I want to read them all. (Although I'm usually crap at guessing who wrote what, so I may be familiar with them already ...) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.166.189.147 |
First Review: http://matthewfryer.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/nemonymous-9-cern-zoo/ "Cern Zoo is a banquet. A cornucopia of flavour and texture, of many courses and layers. Just beware of the cockroaches lurking in the salad." | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.202 |
Literally Cern Zoo is here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090705/tuk-uk-britain-zoo-escape-fa6b408.html This zoo, I have it on good authority, is the model for the zoo in "The Lion's Den"! And please don't forget this recent news item (the same time as Cern Zoo was tied up in April): http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/12/2009-04-12_unbelievable_photo_polar_b ear_mauls_woman_who_.html | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.234 |
S.D. Tullis (who I think has had more stories in Nemonymous over the years than most others) has agreed to let me quote this bit form an email he just sent me about the CERN ZOO book: "Just finished CERN ZOO and I have to say I was blown hither and thither and eventually asunder by the many fascinating interpretations of that initial inscrutable (for me anyway) theme. Standouts had to be Artis Eterne, The Rude Man’s Menagerie, Salmon Widow, and Fragment Of Life (the latter falling just shy of perfection but for the author’s perhaps over-eagerness that the reader not miss the connection between the strange goings-on next door and Tim’s otherwise compelling descent into metaphysical madness)." And, seriously, I really think it high time someone published a collection of S.D. Tullis stories. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I haven't managed to read more than a handful of stories so far yet, Des, but from those I have read, I'd say that this is the best Nemo yet. Loving it! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Yes, Artis Eterne is a good un. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.234 |
If you want to hear my singing voice: http://www.supload.com/sound_confirm.php?get=613810203.wma | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.168.160.222 |
Anyone who promises to do a Real-Time Review of CERN ZOO on their blog, along the lines of my own real-time reviews here, then I shall send them a free copy of this book with 24 stories. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.171.145 |
A review from Steven Pirie: http://stevenpirie.blogspot.com/2009/09/cern-zoo-nemonymous-nine.html "...provides excellent value for money at 265 pages with 24 short stories." A review from David Hebblethwaite: http://davidhblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/cern-zoo-nemonymous-nine-2009/ "The stories in Cern Zoo are a nicely eclectic bunch; this is true not only of their subject matter, but also of their relationships to the anthology's title." | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
I'd certainly be interested, Des. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.171.145 |
In doing a real-time review of Cern Zoo, Steve? I hope so. If so, please supply your address to me at dflewis48@hotmail.com | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.153.249.0 |
Pete Tennant's interesting experiment with CERN ZOO: http://www.ttapress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11420&sid=bbf87ab31188e670b8c6ef4c 8999b372#11420 | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.147 |
I'm in none of the twelve thingummies there, so deep sadness from me... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I'm in both, but I sense Pete will know exactly which story is mine - anyone familiar with my work will guess it immediately, and Pete's reviewed just about everything I've written. Interesting experiment... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.153.249.0 |
That's slightly too much info, Zed, enabling other people to guess your story more easily (ie narrowing the odds on winning immortality!). But I'll forgive you ... just. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
 Sorry, sir Des. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Actually, Gary, yours is the only one which I'm fairly sure about anyway - I think!  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I'm not really sure if that's a good or a bad thing, so I'm going to pretend that it's a wonderful thing. Like ice cream and nudity. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.152.176.232 |
CERN ZOO was a pre-existing term !!!!!!!!!!!! Not simply an anagram of CONE ZERO and ZENCORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cern_zoo_retrocaused_itself.htm | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.152.176.232 |
The evidence accretes... A nemonymous tweeter escaped from the aviary at Cern Zoo & dropped a bit of beget bread into the Hadron Collider... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/6514155/Large-Hadron-Co llider-broken-by-bread-dropped-by-passing-bird.html | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.89.189.24 |
'...after the small piece of baguette landed in a piece of equipment on the surface above the accelerator ring'. HA! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
That's quite scary - that the machine can be so easily damaged like that. What if it had been in full swing? Would all their "fail-safe" devices have worked and stopped it from overheating and thereby suffering a "catastrophic failure"? I'm beginning to doubt whether these mad scientists really know what they're doing ... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.150.116 |
Maybe the bird was working for God, or the future universe. Or maybe the bird thought it was hungry, like a massive nest. Maybe it makes a hungry baby-bird noise. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
"I'm beginning to doubt whether these mad scientists really know what they're doing ... " What "mad scientists"? "Would all their "fail-safe" devices have worked and stopped it from overheating and thereby suffering a "catastrophic failure"?" Yes. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
"Maybe the bird was working for God, or the future universe." If you're working for the future universe, there's always someone from a further point in the future to trump you. Until you reach the big crunch and we all know who the ultimate boss is there. The devil. God's at the start of the universe, the devil at the end and they're both fighting over it, hence, well - everything. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.234.46 |
First time-traveling particles from the future... now birds dropping baguettes... my GOD, what will happen next?!... (I'm actually more surprised they admitted to this. Surely it would have been easy to make up some plausible story filled with scientific jargon and formulas and whatnot...? I'm smelling a rat: by implying "God" or celestial powers or incredible phenomena had a hand in defeating its efficacy, they are cleverly building up the very "monumental nature" of this essentially spinning money-sucking electrical top....) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.150.116 |
Maybe they're quite innocent, and didn't think we'd a) laugh, or b) think them 'mad'.  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
Mot one scientist said that God was interfering with the LHC. Nor did they say they're looking for a God particle. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.234.46 |
Mot one scientist said that God was interfering with the LHC. Nor did they say they're looking for a God particle. Unless they're living in a complete vacuum, they know what has been written about it, what controversy it's stimulated, etc. Maybe they stoked that themselves? I put nothing beyond the entities that are REALLY at the farthest future points already - publicity agents. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.150.116 |
Really? I've not followed this at all. All I know is that my kids thought the world was going to end during all the build up to it and that they were genuinely frightened. And I like you two btw, so don't go scrapping! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
"I've not followed this at all. All I know is that my kids thought the world was going to end during all the build up to it and that they were genuinely frightened." That's awful, Tony. Blame those nasty scientists who exaggerate everything in their stringently peer-reviewed papers. There's nobody else who's fault it could be. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.150.116 |
The papers were playing it up, I knew, but it seeped through to my kids and there was no way I could comfort them. I blame the papers for alsorts, me. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.234.46 |
The more I think about the bird/baguette, the less I believe this story. It just doesn't pass the smell test. I don't know why someone would make that up, but someone did. It's just too weird. There's news to come, I'll bet... like the whole thing really is a big twirling turd of some kind... a mechanical Madoff machine.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.150.116 |
It happened, but then the fact someone put it in a paper makes it seem shitty. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.152.176.232 |
I don't know why someone would make that up,... ====================== As publicity for the Cern Zoo book, Craig. A FABLE (just written) A large domestic cooler-fan - with fanblades spinning so frantically fast that nobody could see them as fanblades but only in the form of a fast-swirling forcefield randomly minced into a mush of themselves by themselves. Within the hub where the motor resided, there was also space enough for a new-born baby to be kept and only rarely taken out to be breast-fed, if at all. Close proximity with spinning fanblades would make the babies become more intelligent, more able to deal with the world. The belief was so strong that many babies were forced to spend as much time as possible within the purpose-built body of the fan's motor. Sometimes forever. Necessary nursing or, as they called it, 'servicing' of his or her body was managed, for some superstitious reason, between the spinning fanblades rather than via the housing at the back. Skilful avoidance of laceration worked in parallel with intravenous mock-fanblade vanes (known as 'veins') precisely timed with the fast-shuttering/shuttling configuration of the fanblades proper. In the most extreme cases of this infantile care-policy, the fanblades were never switched off and the baby him- or herself grew up with the wiggle-room of the slightly elasticated housing of the hub as well as being simultaneously weaned off an unfortunately hit-and-miss targetting of inward and outward bodily metabolisms. The 'veins' - spinning in tune with the fanblades - had special 'baffles' inserted along the length of their inner 'rifled' circuits both to facilitate and resist, at the optimum moments, various flows of sustenance and slurry. Scientifically-contrived particles were triggered to collide at various crucial flashpoints - a 'process music' that the inhabitants of that land took for granted as the barely heard/whirred substructure of Beethoven's Ninth. A delightful resonance with the fanblades. Until something went awry, which it often did. For example, a piece of bread was dropped on one fan by a passing bird escaped from the aviary in Cern Zoo. You see, the people often kept the fans outside in the garden, because it got too cold and draughty to have them in the house. Thus ends the Fanblade Fable. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.152.176.232 |
The above Fable was first published on this thread in answer to previous points. I've now polished it here: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_new_fanblade_fable.htm | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.14.216 |
That story I find eerily uncomfortable (and sardonically funny).... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Sorry, Proto, I'd forgotten you are a scientist. No general slur on scientists intended by my comment, but I do wonder if those engaged in this particular experiment have really thought of all the eventualities. If the story is true, and a small piece of bread dropped by a bird could cause such a catastrophic failure, have they thought of this possibility before? I don't think it's possible, when you've got something of this magnitude, to think of every possible eventuality and make it completely safe. Yes, the media stirred up a frenzy about it being "the end of the world machine" - that frightened me too, not just your kids, Tony! I don't entirely trust humans not to mess things up entirely - after all they're doing a pretty good job with global warming .. * "oh no", everyone moans - please don't bring that issue up again * And now I'm going to go and enjoy myself reading Des' fable and his short shorts on the other thread .. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
That's an awful couple of paragraphs I've just written - lots of use of the word "possible" and two instances of "entirely" in the same sentence. Sorry folks - I've taken some extra fibromyalgia pills this evening and they're really messing my brain up. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
Sorry to hear you have fibromyalgia - I've a friend who has it and it's no joke. What riles me up about this issue is how science is mis-represented. "End of the World Machine" was nonsense the media came up with. The amchine is just minicking what's already been taking place in nature for billions of years (collisions of cosmic rays). And "catastrophic failure" just means the machine would break - it wouldn't (couldn't!) destroy anything but itself. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
unless it creates a black hole which sucks the whole planet into it!!!!! or maybe it will open a door to the world of the pixies and they'll all come skipping theough and have jolly little teaparties with all of us... as the main course!!! Mwa ha ha ha!!!! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.243.30 |
How do we know it was from a baguette? Or dropped by a bird? Isn't this all assumption? You know, manna from Heaven, and all.... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.171.167.11 |
How do we know it was from a baguette? Or dropped by a bird? ============================  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.226 |
Hmm. Looks an awful lot like garlic toast to me.... Simply remove that bird, Des? And you have quite an iconic image of mystery.... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Sorry to hear you have fibromyalgia - I've a friend who has it and it's no joke.<< Thanks Proto. Actually, I shouldn't have taken the extra pill last night - it turned out my extra aches and pains and feeling b******y awful were down to flu - but, hopefully, not of the swine variety. I keep taking my temperature to see if it's still normal!  That picture is wonderful, Des. I've got half a mind to ask you if we could use it for a Pantechnicon cover! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>or maybe it will open a door to the world of the pixies and they'll all come skipping theough and have jolly little teaparties with all of us... as the main course!!! Mwa ha ha ha!!!!<< Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode, that does. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.171.167.11 |
I've completed five short-short Fanblade Fables inspired by concepts in Cern Zoo (particularly the fifth one). Thanks to the authors, where appropriate, for their inspiration. These fables are linked onward from here: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_new_fanblade_fable.htm | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.107.64 |
Des Lewis made a sort of summary here about the cosmic coincidences and CERN ZOO: http://weirdmonger.livejournal.com/2009/12/10/ | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.107.64 |
Someone's just pointed out to me that the Norway spiral is the cover of CONE ZERO. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.107.64 |
Regarding some new cone zeros, I've thanked 'TLO Zoo' in the 6th comment on this post: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/large_hadron_collider_reflected_in_the_sky_over _norway.htm (a post that seems to have had multiple hits constantly on it since I advertised the Norway phenomenon relating to 'Cern Zoo' yesterday). | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.168.160.26 |
The importance is not in the cause of events but that they happened at all to make a perceptible pattern of connections. Latest episode of 'Have I got News For You' tonight here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pgl7s/Have_I_Got_News_for_You_Series_38_ Episode_9/ has image as penultimate photo right at the end that is very similiar to the 'Berne Zoo' bear incident and cover of'Cern Zoo'. A serious plea - is there anyone who can advise me how to reproduce that image as a picture on the internet. I've done all the google searches possible??? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.168.160.26 |
Thanks to those who answered my plea:    | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.166.189.235 |
I note there was a cone in the sky over Russia on the same day as the Norway spiral; http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m12d19-Pravda- hides-link-between-Kremlin-UFO-pyramid--Norway-light-spiral | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.220.102 |
The excellent programme just broadcast on BBC4 - The Secret Life of Chaos - makes one very fearful of the retrocausality (as earlier reported) of the Large Hadron Collider. The world as Cern Zoo. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.220.102 |
...for example, the 'self-organising' of non-conscious matter... The shameful death of Alan Turing. The butterfly theory demonstrated by the Bern Zoo mauling of a man by a bear. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.220.102 |
Awesome, almost comic, film about the Hadron Collider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu63Qqgd9xY&feature=youtu.be&a | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.130 |
A few days ago, I released the 23 CERN ZOO authors from secrecy about their particular stories - but only if they wish to do so in advance of the official announcement by me of the whole list on 12 March 2010. You can watch any such announcements being made in real-time on the time-line here: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_cern_zoo_page.htm Very pleased to announce that 'The Lion's Den' has been chosen to appear in Ellen Datlow's book here: http://sfscope.com/2010/01/contents-of-ellen-datlows-the-1.html | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
"Very pleased to announce that 'The Lion's Den' has been chosen to appear in Ellen Datlow's book" Superb! I particularly enjoyed "The Lion's Den" - now I've just got to find out who wrote it! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.130 |
It's on that link, Caroline, if you click then on 'The Lion's Den' I never make it easy to enter the enclosure. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Found it, Des. You're right, it isn't easy to enter the enclosure at all! Steve Duffy, eh? Nice one! Looking forward to more names being revealed in due course. There are a couple in particular which I THINK I know who they are but want to know for sure ... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Pebbles - me. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.130 |
PEBBLES by Tony Lovell The Author of 'Salmon Widow': “Pebbles”: I have as much respect for this story as the author obviously has for her or his reader. It hangs like a dream. I loved it. A FAVOURITE. Me: "...the clouds threatening a rain that had not yet come..." A simply beautiful short tale of a girl collecting pink pebbles from a beach and the boy protagonist who met her. Ending with a dying fall that contains a poignant contentment at impossibility. It seems a shame to mould the meaning further than that. But did she really seek just one pebble, one particle of our existence? The story does not give the answer to that question because, I suppose, it does not ask it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
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| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ah! I thought yours might be Mellie's Zoo, Tony. You know when you read a story and it feels like someone is writing about you - all your emotions and fears, in this case, as a child? Well, Mellie's Zoo was that kind of story for me, so now I'm still wondering who wrote that. Pebbles was certainly beautiful too, Tony. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.145.130 |
Caroline, the answer to MELLIE'S ZOO is now here: http://www.acwise.net/?p=528 | ||
| Steveduffy (Steveduffy) Username: Steveduffy Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 86.156.102.61 |
Caroline, glad you enjoyed "The Lion's Den"! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.153.237.251 |
'The Virtual Revolution' says WWW was invented in CERN. Seems therefore a good name for the Internet: CERN Zoo? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.159.146.233 |
....or CERF Zoo (Vint Cerf). | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.131.175.228 |
ZANESVILLE: Lions, bears and tigers roaming Ohio after zoo escape Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/879080-lions-bears-and-tigers-roaming-ohio-after-zoo -escape#ixzz1bFpQ5Dvw | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.131.175.228 |
Escaped Zanesville animals immortalized on Twitter http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-10-19/zanesville-exotic-animals-twi tter/50827030/1 | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh, that's so sad. Why do idiots like this want to effectively imprison wild animals for their own pleasure? My tears are for the animals which will be shot rather than for the owner. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.150.243 |
Are you one of the ones that rooted for the Apes in POTA Caroline? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
You bet, Tony! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.131.175.228 |
Indeed, the Zanesville Zoo incident is sad. (Photo in attached news item may disturb): http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/national/main20123004.shtml | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.131.175.211 |
Here's hopefully another iconic image that I took in 2008 (just rediscovered) that goes with the book's cover that you all know so well already!!  More images here: http://zencore2007.wordpress.com/89-2/ | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.155.24.14 |
carved in stone cerne abbas / zencore | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.58.16 |
Just been told that a real life toy stuffed tiger incident happened on my birthday a few days ago! http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8510609 And there was a stuffed toy tiger in the INTERZONE review I just did here: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/interzone-238/ | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
Lion on loose in Clacton area: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lion-on-the-loose-in-essex-large-cat-128165 1 Cf Steve Duffys' story THE LION's DEN in CERN ZOO and later THE WEIRD! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
False alarm, then. http://www.newser.com/story/152868/uk-cops-end-huge-search-for-large-domestic-ca t.html | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.244.38 |
I heard that and thought of you, Des! I bet those holidaymakers who reported it feel like a right pair of idiots now. I reckon the wife said to the husband "Let's have a lie-in this weekend", and he misheard and thought she said "Let's have a lion this weekend". | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 141.0.11.0 |
It was my fault. I misheard the wonga.com advert and ordered a 3000 unsecured lion. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
Judging by today's Breakfast TV, the fuss about the Clacton Lion goes on! Over the years I have been discussing the escape of lions and bears etc. as a theme of CERN ZOO. I could not then possibly imagine there would emerge a 'real' mythical Clacton Lion on all the world's media!!! (Clacton where I live). | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.244.38 |
There's a picture of it in this BBC report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19396019 I must say that looks more like a stuffed toy to me. There was another one recently where a toy tiger on a roof sparked a bit of a panic, wasn't there? Anyway, take care when you're out walking, Des ... just in case. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
I must say that looks more like a stuffed toy to me. There was another one recently where a toy tiger on a roof sparked a bit of a panic, wasn't there? ==================== Yes, Caroline, it's linked above on this very page: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8510609 Also just realised that St Osyth is mentioned in THE LAST BALCONY (in the story 'Benchmark for Ghosts' written many years ago). | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
...btw, the latest decoy here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19399827 A cat-owner says it was her cat that was the St Osyth Lion. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.244.38 |
Awww, that Maine Coon is just sooooo cute! Glad nobody took a pot shot at her thinking she was a lion. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.129.56.26 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbd3E6tK2U Someone should explain this to the idiots that took the photo - it even looks like a domestic cat in the picture. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.21 |
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| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.244.38 |
 That's brilliant, Des! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.147.66.20 |
http://news.yahoo.com/higgs-boson-particle-may-spell-doom-universe-152236961.htm l | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.147.87.58 |
The Higgs boson is boring! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23245-rumour-points-to-completely-boring-h iggs-boson.html |