I passed 33,000 words today, with a target of 50K and 150-200 formatted pages. That’s quite a mechanistic goal, but what can I say? The only way people ever actually paid me to sit at a keyboard all day was as a tech writer. I fear – as I always do at this point in a project – that I have lost all objectivity and am no longer a fit judge as to whether this whole thing is a narcissistic pile of shit.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Reading about your life is entertaining and sometimes inspiring
My daughter gets that attitude once in a while. I tell her she’s pretty, and smart, and everyone like her.
Joel…you’re pretty, and smart, and everyone likes you, big guy. There, there…shhhh…
Oh FOMCL and ROTF
Can you work this into the book???
Anybody tells me I’m pretty, I know right away he’s lying. 🙂
I’m assuming that you will include the full story of Ghost and LB. 🙂 Oh, and the cats, sad as it is. The chicken chronicles are also expected…
How you scared the bejabbers out of Desi and two French bulldogs (but not Desi’s happy-to-be-in-the-middle-of-nowhere wife)
Mud. The mud thereabouts is a notable character.
The guys on the hill and the bear
Civil servants in the desert/the time the local government tried to make the place more friendly for rich out-of-towners
“Liberating” solar panels
How the cops discovered Joel didn’t have his papers in order
The various ways you tried to commute to work after that