And no; many men seem far from pigs (or lions, or whatever else she turned men into). I was figuring it was those *specific* men, rather than men in general. OTOH, my memory of the Circe story(ies) is probably largely eclipsed now by the version in Silverlock.
The bugs remain. Dirty creatures always find bugs; men, the lice that crawl on scalp and scrote, pigs, the fleas and tics that adore the mud, machines, the overflow and missing referent.
What was a sorceress to do? Bad code turned into a slovenly pig, a rude and sloppy man into an application with a bad interface, and a tendency to corrupt her files.
Better to throw them all into the sea, and wait for the next ship, the next release, the next herder of pigs to come by.
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Date: 2004-10-22 04:08 pm (UTC)rewrite the operating system.
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Date: 2004-10-22 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 04:40 pm (UTC)And no; many men seem far from pigs (or lions, or whatever else she turned men into). I was figuring it was those *specific* men, rather than men in general. OTOH, my memory of the Circe story(ies) is probably largely eclipsed now by the version in Silverlock.
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Date: 2004-10-25 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 04:51 pm (UTC)creatures always find bugs;
men, the lice that crawl on scalp and scrote,
pigs, the fleas and tics that adore the mud,
machines, the overflow and missing referent.
What was a sorceress to do?
Bad code turned into a slovenly pig,
a rude and sloppy man into
an application with a bad interface,
and a tendency to corrupt her files.
Better to throw them all into the sea,
and wait for the next ship,
the next release,
the next herder of pigs to come by.
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Date: 2004-10-22 07:43 pm (UTC)