Sweet Asheville, North Carolina

Sweet Asheville, North Carolina
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Certain Women Have Extraordinary Skills

It’s pretty early. Debbie is still sleeping. She’s just as beautiful in her sleep as she is awake. She’s is a truly remarkable woman. If life suddenly required her to lift the corner of a large skyscraper, she would find a way to do it with one hand while keeping the other hand free to make sandwiches for the homeless, while at the same time using her free foot to help someone move furniture into a new apartment--she has learned how to manage life and love it all at the same time.
One of my heros - Michael Swanwick
 
I just finished Michael Swanwick’s short story, Libertarian Russia. Holy crap--life’s tough in rural Russia in the near future. (From my reading, Russia seems to have always been a rough and tumble kind of place). Apparently, in the near future we’re all going to be able to make certain technological enhancements to our bodies (machine guns on our finger tips, rocket launchers out our wazoo, and the like) which we’ll need to remember to do in case we run up against any former Soviet security personnel out of a job--their going to be pissed off and their not going to transition well into a more egalitarian society.  Also, if you happen to be on a
Russia has always been a little wierd
  search for genuine freedom while riding to Siberia on your grass fueled motorcycle on the lam for petty crimes committed while fleeing Moscow, go ahead and pick up that prostitute. She may just save your life. Mr. Swanwick, this is another little masterpeice. Thank you for helping me to feel somewhat happy (safe anyway) about living in lil' old North Carolina.


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