The Cooper River Bridge’s metallic dorsal fins cascade in the breeze, a post-modern architectural sight not far from cobblestones and carriages. Charleston is a hybrid of the modern and the historic. From the blue bloods' houses of Rainbow Row to the gigantic warehouse-size building of an on-demand web publisher BookSurge, Charleston runs the gamut.
It is a city where a business was built upon non-profit fund-raising tabulation software but where an arts festival celebrates traditional classical music.
All the amenities of chain stores are there as are the eccentricities of little shops. A cat wanders through a store window. A dog meanders through a bookstore. Down from where once stood more little touristy shops, though, there looms a Sax Fifth Avenue.
No wonder that such a place always inspires me as a science fiction and fantasy author. It is itself a blend of staunch linear buildings and structures intended for pragmatic purposes and the whimsy of salt sea, flags on ancient structures, and fun-loving pixies cavorting through the oaks.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Non-researched Quotes (from Memory) and Responses
Don't stare too long into the abyss, for it stares into you. Dare to tell the abyss that it isn't polite to stare. Anyway, if you're staring into the abyss, odds are you need to be more worried about your contacs burning your eyes.
That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. Yea, unless it somehow deterioriates all of the major muscles in your body.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Yea but somehow Virgil and Dante made it through.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in its petty pace from day to day. I thought that was the public school system over-burdened by bureaucracy and No Child Left Behind.
If music be the food of love, play on. If music is the food of love, there are a whole lot of people on the highway giving me indigestion.
Never a borrower or a lender be. -Particularly in the current housing slump.
(Sic.) and (SICK!) to all. ; )
That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. Yea, unless it somehow deterioriates all of the major muscles in your body.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Yea but somehow Virgil and Dante made it through.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in its petty pace from day to day. I thought that was the public school system over-burdened by bureaucracy and No Child Left Behind.
If music be the food of love, play on. If music is the food of love, there are a whole lot of people on the highway giving me indigestion.
Never a borrower or a lender be. -Particularly in the current housing slump.
(Sic.) and (SICK!) to all. ; )
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