Comments on: Condemned to Repeat http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/ over 5 billion neurons served Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Bill Householder http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-12150 Bill Householder Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:35:00 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-12150 All I can say is: wow. Both stories were something else. Zebrowski's is much more of a meditation on evil than the Bisson, but the Bisson punches you in the gut at the end. Have any of you read Thomas Merton's " A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann?" Here's a link: http://www.tomjoad.org/eichmann.htm That knocked me out when I first read it almost 20 years ago. Thanks Brad. All I can say is: wow. Both stories were something else. Zebrowski’s is much more of a meditation on evil than the Bisson, but the Bisson punches you in the gut at the end. Have any of you read Thomas Merton’s ” A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann?” Here’s a link: http://www.tomjoad.org/eichmann.htm
That knocked me out when I first read it almost 20 years ago. Thanks Brad.

]]> By: Paula Helm Murray http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-12148 Paula Helm Murray Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:08:05 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-12148 Thanks, Brad. Was bored at lunch, read MACS and was creeped out. And I read it when it came out and was creeped out then too. Makes me vaguely glad I'm wading through Harry Potter again in a lit crit sort of way, that'll keep me from having nightmares. Thanks, Brad. Was bored at lunch, read MACS and was creeped out. And I read it when it came out and was creeped out then too.

Makes me vaguely glad I’m wading through Harry Potter again in a lit crit sort of way, that’ll keep me from having nightmares.

]]> By: Rory Harper http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-12004 Rory Harper Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:48:32 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-12004 Oh, yeah. I liked the Bisson. Dark and fucked up, and if I was one of the family members, if somebody killed Rachael, I'd want more than 30 days. I'd be crazy and useless for life at the end of it, but that would be okay. Ick. The place where it rings a bit false for me, though, is that I can't see anybody wanting anything other than the original. I don't think guilt is transferable. But all the cultures that have sin-eaters, in one guise or another, would disagree. Oh, yeah. I liked the Bisson. Dark and fucked up, and if I was one of the family members, if somebody killed Rachael, I’d want more than 30 days.

I’d be crazy and useless for life at the end of it, but that would be okay. Ick.

The place where it rings a bit false for me, though, is that I can’t see anybody wanting anything other than the original. I don’t think guilt is transferable.

But all the cultures that have sin-eaters, in one guise or another, would disagree.

]]> By: Morgan J. Locke http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-11941 Morgan J. Locke Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:55:14 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-11941 Bisson does some amazing stuff. I love his work. Bisson does some amazing stuff. I love his work.

]]> By: Maureen McQ http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-11939 Maureen McQ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:04:02 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-11939 I hadn't read it either. Terry Bisson is one of my favorite writers ever. Everyone says sf is a literature of ideas, but Terry is one of the few people who actually write that way. There's no answer to the question of how to deal with evil without introducing more evil, but that doesn't mean the question shouldn't be asked over and over. I hadn’t read it either. Terry Bisson is one of my favorite writers ever. Everyone says sf is a literature of ideas, but Terry is one of the few people who actually write that way.

There’s no answer to the question of how to deal with evil without introducing more evil, but that doesn’t mean the question shouldn’t be asked over and over.

]]> By: Caroline Spector http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-11932 Caroline Spector Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:17:43 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-11932 MACS was just great, Brad. I hadn't read it before. Thanks for the link. MACS was just great, Brad. I hadn’t read it before. Thanks for the link.

]]> By: Steven Gould http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-11930 Steven Gould Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:52:10 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-11930 Macs is brilliant. Macs is brilliant.

]]> By: Morgan J. Locke http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-11929 Morgan J. Locke Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:32:12 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-11929 That's interesting, Brad. And disturbing. Thanks for the reading suggestions. That’s interesting, Brad. And disturbing. Thanks for the reading suggestions.

]]> By: James Hollaman http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/comment-page-1/#comment-11907 James Hollaman Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:12:18 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/05/31/condemned-to-repeat/#comment-11907 i had never read The Eichmann Variations, now i think i want to. Thats sounds weird i had never read The Eichmann Variations, now i think i want to. Thats sounds weird

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