Dylan Callens's Blog: The Silent Guardian, page 15
August 3, 2016
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part IV
Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide Part IV Chapter Title: On the Politics of Kicking Ass and Taking Names This chapter – oh this chapter. I had a very difficult time with this chapter. In the early days of writing the novel, this chapter almost ended the whole effort. I chalk it up to inexperience because now I would have approached it differently.
In this chapter, after God enters from another Bacchanalia, Freud tweaks on crystal meth. Crystal meth is one of those drugs that I’d love to...
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part IV
Chapter Title: On the Politics of Kicking Ass and Taking Names
This chapter – oh this chapter. I had a very difficult time with this chapter. In the early days of writing the novel, this chapter almost ended the whole effort. I chalk it up to inexperience because now I would have approached it differently.
In this chapter, after God enters from another Bacchanalia, Freud tweaks on crystal meth. Crystal meth is one of those drugs that I’d love to try but fear, so I don’t. I watched many, many...
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part IV
Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide Part IV Chapter Title: On the Politics of Kicking Ass and Taking Names This chapter – oh this chapter. I had a very difficult time with this chapter. In the early days of writing the novel, this chapter almost ended the whole effort. I chalk it up to inexperience because now I would have approached it differently.
In this chapter, after God enters from another Bacchanalia, Freud tweaks on crystal meth. Crystal meth is one o...
July 27, 2016
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part III
Chapter Title: On the Aesthetics of Guarding One’s Ass
How beautiful can it be to guard one’s ass? I’m not sure. But it makes me giggle.
In this chapter we’re introduced to the Norse gods Odin, Loki, Thor and Freya. They basically play their traditional roles from Norse mythology; that is to say, Odin believes himself to be the leader, Loki is a trickster, Thor the strongman, and Freya is beautiful but cunning. There are only a few caveats to their traditional roles. First, since the gods ar...
July 21, 2016
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part II
Chapter Title: On the Genealogy of Better Beginnings
The title of this chapter is taken from Nietzsche’s first essay in The Genealogy of Morals. At first, I attempted to replicate the entire opening paragraph but that proved to be quite a boring read, so I only took a couple of phrases from it. I don’t mean that Nietzsche’s work is boring – far from it. I just mean as a piece of fiction, it didn’t work very well. At any rate, here is the paragraph from Nietzsche’s work:
July 13, 2016
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part I
Chapter Title: On the Nature of Re-Genesis
The titles of each chapter are probably my favorite parts of the book. I can’t remember how they came to be, exactly, but they are meant to poke fun at philosophical treatises. Each one follows the format: On the (philosophical term) of (something relevant to the chapter). I’m not really sure what the nature of re-genesis is, but I do like the sound of it.
The first inside joke happens pretty much right away. I like to try and use numbers that are r...
July 7, 2016
The Operation Cosmic Teapot Reader's Guide - Part 0
When I first set out to write Operation Cosmic Teapot, I did so to entertain myself. I wanted to write a book that would make me laugh while allowing me to look into a number of philosophies. OCT was the result. More recently, I started thinking about writing a reader’s guide because while I did try to layer the book so that it would be amusing to both non-philosophers and philosophers, it occurred to me that maybe some people would like to know just what the heck I mean by one thing or anot...
May 29, 2016
10 Author-Deaths that are Stranger than Fiction
Writers can be a strange breed, including the way that they died. Here is ashortlist of the most bizarre.
1o. Tenessee Williams (1911 – 1983)
While known for abusing a variety of substances, the one that did him in wasn't meant to get himhigh. Williams choked to death on aplastic cap from eye drops. The cap lodged in his throat and he was unable to spit it out, apparently due to the vast quantities of drugs in his system. He could have at least made it an animal figurine, for the sake of...
10 Deaths that are Stranger than Fiction
Writers can be a strange breed, including the way that they died. Here is ashortlist of the most bizarre.
1o. Tenessee Williams (1911 – 1983)
While known for abusing a variety of substances, the one that did him in wasn't meant to get himhigh. Williams choked to death on aplastic cap from eye drops. The cap lodged in his throat and he was unable to spit it out, apparently due to the vast quantities of drugs in his system. He could have at least made it an animal figurine, for the sake of...
10 Author-Deaths that are Stranger than Fiction
Writers can be a strange breed, including the way that they died. Here is a shortlist of the most bizarre.
1o. Tenessee Williams (1911 – 1983)
While known for abusing a variety of substances, the one that did him in wasn't meant to get him high. Williams choked to death on a plastic cap from eye drops. The cap lodged in his throat and he was unable to spit it out, apparently due to the vast quantities of drugs in his system. He could have at l...
