”The Belcebron people used to cause great resentment and insecurity amongst neighboring races by being one of the most enlightened, accomplished, and above all quiet civilizations in the Galaxy.
As a punishment for this behaviour, which was held to be offensively self righteous and provocative, a Galactic Tribunal inflicted on them that most cruel of all social diseases, telepathy. Consequently, in order to prevent themselves broadcasting every slightest thought that crossed their minds to anyone within a five mile radius, they now have to talk very loudly and continuously about the weather, their little aches and pains and the match this afternoon…”.
”The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.
Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is
what most beings in fact do.For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire ”intelligent” population of which lives
permanently in one fairly small and crowded nut tree.
In which tree they are born, live, fall in love, carve tiny speculative articles in the bark on the meaning of life, the futility of death and the importance of birth control, fight a few extremely minor wars, and eventually die strapped to the underside of some of the less accessible outer branches.”
”She had spent her carrier attempting to make contact with the most remote and alien of strangers, while in her own life she had made contact with hardly anyone at all. She had been fierce in debunking the creation myths of others, and oblivious to the lie at the core of her own. She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Contact (1986) av Carl Sagan (astronom, 1934-1996).
”She was comfortable describing to him her snatches of memories, childhood embarrassments. And he was not only merely interested but fascinated. He would question her for hours about her childhood. His questions were always direct, sometimes probing, but without exception gentle. She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside her were permitted to come out. If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all these sub-personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness.
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. With her previous partners, it seemed, at most one of these selves was able to find a compatible opposite number; the other personas were grumpy hangers-on.”
– Contact (1986) av Carl Sagan (astronom, 1934-1996).
Musik och från produktion i programmet Kultur- och medieproduktion på Malmö Högskola som jg deltog i hösten 2008. Vi fick i uppgift att presentera en annan klasskamrats livshistoria. Jag valde skriva en sorts operaliknande första akt av studenten Eva Neimantas liv.
NEW DAWN (musik och text Fredrik Lindgren; sång Anna Aronica Lindgren)
ACT ONE: ”Introduction of Neimanta”
This girl was born and held to the year of a supernova In the sky of Leipaja of the earth of Latvia
In a decade of age or a decade of thought She left her loved Eden for a journey abroad
She taught and read and sang — for reason She quickly learned the land — of Sweden (in feelings she found her way)
In the Crown of Carl she began to master arts Cultural philosophies new age digital crafts
A new dawning will glow in skrapers of Malmoe Hope and dream, the city mantra perfect place for Eva Neimanta
She taught and read and sang — for reason She ’s walked the crooked land — of Sweden (in feelings she found her way)
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