“Now you’re freaking me out,” Gary said. “I’m freaking myself out,” Jim said.

Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall, Night of the Living Trekkies [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Anderson Stall Night of the Living Trekkies now freaking me out myself

Consider also:

  1. Omnium Gatherum: 22aug2021
  2. “I’ve prepared a PowerPoint presentation that will cover the basics of what I wish to discuss with you,” Lucifer begins, opening up the ThinkPad. “Stop,” Billy says. “PowerPoint?” “It’s my preferred medium,” says Lucifer. “No,” Billy says. “Just no. You want to talk? We can talk. But I’m hungover, I’m annoyed, I’m still kind of losing my shit, I’m not watching a freaking PowerPoint presentation.” “PowerPoint is actually quite unfairly maligned,” Lucifer says.
  3. “Plenty of men—and women—have already gone where I’m going. But I’ll be the first person currently in this room to make the trip.”
  4. “I crave the small, tactile simplicity of my new Kindle Paperwhite in its purple leather cover, which is currently home to what would make up around three boxes of physical books, but whose screen’s digital imprint is flattened of all memory and association. It’s soulless and almost weightless. On the other hand, the smug little ereader has not broken my spirit and my knees in the way that disposing of half my library has done, driving me to tears, rage and paracetamol.”
  5. “The value of a ritual is that it involves self-discipline and belonging. The ritual is pointless in itself so the doing of it is purely a matter of discipline and the willingness to do it.”