Re: FW: 10 Ultra-Weird Science Fiction Novels that Became Required Reading
Helge Moulding <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Charley Seavey <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps we need to have a discussion of what constitutes "weird." One > person's garbage, another person's treasure, and all that. > Weird is really a cultural construct, not so much personal, at least that's how I see it. Weird also doesn't seem to be a linear scale, more like a landscape with valleys of the ordinary, and peaks of weird. Culture and maybe some personal sensibility draws fairly fuzzy watermark through that landscape. -- Helge