"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
I used to read steampunk before it was even a thing... that's because I consider Michael Moorcock's Nomad of Time books to be prototype steampunk, even though the term wasn't coined until several decades after their first publication (though even now somebody is arguing "but Steve, surely Jules Verne is the original prototype of steampunk" to which I reply STFU, jerk, this is my damn comment!).
So I like the image of Kerry arriving in a massive coal fired steam powered Zeppelin, from which is lowered a huge steam powered phaeton, in which he chugs to the ceremony beneath a cloud of black coal smoke.
Bonus points if he's wearing brass goggles, a top hat, and a silk waistcoat.
I used to read steampunk before it was even a thing... that's because I consider Michael Moorcock's Nomad of Time books to be prototype steampunk, even though the term wasn't coined until several decades after their first publication (though even now somebody is arguing "but Steve, surely Jules Verne is the original prototype of steampunk" to which I reply STFU, jerk, this is my damn comment!).
ReplyDeleteSo I like the image of Kerry arriving in a massive coal fired steam powered Zeppelin, from which is lowered a huge steam powered phaeton, in which he chugs to the ceremony beneath a cloud of black coal smoke.
Bonus points if he's wearing brass goggles, a top hat, and a silk waistcoat.
but Steve, surely he could use clean burning anthracite...
ReplyDeleteOne might ask Kerry his opinion of clean burning anthracite... and then watch him enter brain lock.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the end result of that question would resemble what happens when Captain Kirk argues with a computer in the 23rd Century...
The best clowns were always Irish or Jewish. Why no WASP leaders? Because it's a clown show.
ReplyDelete(Kerry is an Irish name, and his tall gaunt figure is a classic type of the old 'navvies' who built roads, railways and anything made of stone).
I think WASP ideology still rules, but they put clowns out front to take all the flak.
From JFK to JF Kerry, it began in tragedy and ends in farce. He epitomises our farcical age, not in the way he hoped, but as a major clown.
Steve: I'm diggin' that steampunk imagery!
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