[CT] Have to share

[Daniel Moran]

It's at least partially an artificial distinction -- with the exception of 
the Star Wars stuff, everything I've ever written fits on the Great Wheel 
somewhere. Hell, even other writer's stuff fits on the Great Wheel if you 
want to put it there -- there's a footnote -- the only footnote, I hasten 
to add -- in AI War, reffing a planet elsewhere on the Great Wheel, shaped 
like a disc, that travels through space on the back of four elephants that 
stands on the back of a great turtle.

Terminal Sue and Bogie Freedom are further south on the Great Wheel than 
the Continuing Time, but they're on it. (Some of the backstory here -- TS 
and Bogie were originally characters in a comic strip, "The Sunset Strip." 
They escaped from "The Sunset Strip" and got jobs working in books -- a 
step up, sort of.) I doubt Jodi & I are ever going to do "Sunset Strip" at 
this point, though I still hope for an illustrated book some day -- the 
main characters of "Sunset Strip," Joe Cool and his sister Mondo, are 
actors who are marched into "The Sunset Strip" at gunpoint after TS & Bogie 
escape. TS & Bogie, as characters in TF and any later books, don't know 
that they're being played by actors -- but when they appear in "The Sunset 
Strip" as guest stars, then they know. This is from maybe the 30th strip -- 
we wrote the first 8 weeks or so once, years and years ago, when we were 
trying to get it done as a daily strip.

1. Joe, Mondo, Terminal Sue
Joe
Okay. Restraint is where you don't do something immediately even though you 
want to.

Terminal Sue
Why not?

2: Joe stares at Terminal Sue.

3: Joe stares straight ahead.

4: PANEL FOUR:
Joe
(turns to Mondo)
Mondo? Mondo?

Mondo
Don't rush me.

~~~~~

This is (and it's the first strip, so it requires no setup):

~~~~~

Monday
SHIP IN SPACE
1960: A ship is lost in space. And not just any ship -- an Administration 
Battle Cruiser.

EARTH -- from space
The Present: Still lost. But is seems as if they've a place to land . . . 
Earth.

SHOT OF SHIP IN MEADOW
The 2000 elections have just taken place. Amid all the confusion, nobody 
even notices one lost, demoralized Administration Battle Cruiser --

SHOT INSIDE SHIP
-- full of Motorpigs.

CHIEF MOTORPIG
Okay, fatheads. Where are we?

wEDNESDAY
GROUP SHOT  MOTORPIGS IN SAUNA

In a daring midnight raid, the Administration Motorpigs take over the 
entertainment industry.

MOTORPIG
(looking down into sauna, hands on hips)
Hey, I dropped my chili.

SHOT OF MAN WATCHING TV, CHILI IN LAP

This, everybody notices. But they like it. Bowling for Dollars is on 24 
hours a day. Chili commercials run rampant. Only people who sound like 
"Kasey Kasem" are allowed on the radio.
MAN W/BOWL OF CHILI
I like it.

CALVIN AND HOBBES WITH CIRCLE AROUND THEM, BARRED.
Legend: Even comic strips are affected. "Calvin and Hobbes" is forced into 
retirement --

THREE SHOT  JOE, MONDO, FEMALE AGENT
A big pic of The President hangs behind the agent: he has little baby tusks.
Legend: And movies. There are no more.
JOE
You can't do this to us. We're serious actors.

At 03:36 PM 6/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Harold Ogle wrote:
>
>:> > "The Armageddon Blues"
>:> > "The Ring"
>:> > "Emerald Eyes"
>:> > "The Long Run"
>:> > "The Last Dancer"
>:> > "Terminal Freedom"
>:>
>:> _The Ring_ isn't part of the Continuing Time, is it?
>:
>:True. But then again, neither are tAB or TF.
>
>I think of tAB as the first of the continuing time novels, although I
>suppose it more appropriately corresponds to the great wheel of
>existence, of which the Continuing Time is only a part.
>
>The same would apply to Terminal Freedom, but there is no explicit
>references to the nature of existence as is in tAB (which is still one
>of my favorite books).
>
>Ben Bishop
>
>
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