{"id":10411,"date":"2013-05-05T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T01:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2013-05-05T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T01:10:56","slug":"sunday-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10411","title":{"rendered":"Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wrote this today:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you going to finish that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. His coffee has grown cold while she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kept him waiting, and for that she apologizes, but they really do need to be going. She takes the cup and places it next to her own untouched coffee on the desk. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spoken with his direct superior on the phone and confirmed his credentials — she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sure he can understand her precaution — but now they only have a limited window in which to talk with the prisoner.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not completely sure what you hope to accomplish here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says, staring at him. Young, eager to please, no doubt exceptionally bright, but also obviously naive. They always are, the ones they dispatch here to investigate these things. She has seen his sort all too often. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know exactly what his bosses at the Bureau have told him, but it will almost certainly not have been enough.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell who he is just by looking at him,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You could stand right next to him, have a long conversation. You could invite him into your home, and you still wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to tell. And I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so good at hiding it or because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re simply so eager not to look.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u009dI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen his kind before,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he tells her. He is impatient to begin what she thinks he will foolishly call in his notes after this is done an interrogation.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not like this. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen remnants, the broken armies of the Shard. Those were echoes, whispers in a distant room, compared to this. This is darkness. This is evil.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take you for the superstitious sort, Doctor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just want you to understand,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that the man in there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a man. Whatever he may tell you, whatever lies he may spout, you need to understand that much. But he also isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like the animals that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve rounded up and killed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re extra-terrestrials, Doctor. Not demons or ghosts…or whatever it is the fanatics are believing these days. The Shard came to Earth to conquer it. And they failed. If this man is what you say he is — if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s committed the crimes you say he has — then he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just another one of their fallen army that we need to quarrantine and eliminate. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing special or mysterious about that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t one of the Shard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the doctor says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is what I have been trying to tell you. The thing in there is much, much more dangerous. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of their gods.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s definitely a little bit of the influence of Hannibal<\/i> running around in there, the sfnal elements notwithstanding. I watched this week’s episode this morning, after the Sunday crossword puzzle kicked my brain’s ass, and it really disturbed me. I say that as a good thing, as the show has thoroughly surprised me with just how good it is, but these folks are not<\/i> kidding with their “viewer discretion advised” warnings.<\/p>\n

The silliness of Iron Man 3<\/i> helped, I think. It’s pretty slow to start, and probably more silly than intelligent, but the second half (or last third) at least is genuinely entertaining.<\/p>\n

And that was Sunday. I haven’t looked at my work e-mail once since Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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