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Date Posted: 13:09:38 07/19/02 Fri
Author: Glory
Subject: Seril and Lij...
In reply to: Seril 's message, "Disturbing post of the day" on 11:15:19 07/19/02 Fri

Good gawd, that article was disturbing. I can't see a lot of graveyards going for that, though. At least I hope they won't. The death industry is pretty conservative.

It reminded me, though, of something that Philip K. Dick might have written. Have you guys ever read anything by him? He died about 20 years ago but he wrote a bunch of crazy and brilliant sci-fi novels in the late '60s and '70s. (The movies Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report were all based on novels and short stories he had written.)

Anyway, one of the themes that always ran through his books was the obnoxiousness of consumerism and commerce, and his books were always full of funny details on how advertising would work in the future. And how everything would cost money.

Anyway, if you haven't read anything he's done I highly recommend Ubik, Valis, or A Scanner Darkly. Fucking amazing books I could go on and on about, but I'll spare everyone that. ;)

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[> Re: Disturbing post of the day -- Shell, 14:03:43 07/19/02 Fri [1]

Creepy, but not all that suprising. I studied quite a bit of advertising in college, being a design student, and it always made me ill, how far people would go to publicize their product. Gotta give them props for creativity, even if they are assholes. At least they put some thought into the concept, not like most the crap we have to see every day.


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