On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:23:50 -0800 (PST), Duggy
 wrote:
>On Feb 13, 6:09 am, lizardgirl  wrote:
>> the recent events in haiti i think bare witness to just how horrific
>> and messy a mass die off is.  jumping the story to 'every body's dead
>> except we three' feels like a bit of a cheat that white washes all the
>> blood and gusts (unless of course everything/one has been vaporized
>> during the invasion) and why movies like 'zombie land' are strangely
>> appealing, "so, like there was this virus and can you believe the shit
>> we have to deal with now.?"
>
>I think I get where you're coming from.  There's always that "where
>are all the bodies"/"why are there suddenly a dead-traffic jam for no
>apparent reason?"/"Shouldn't there be more/less structural damage to
>the city"
>I've found "Life After Man" an interesting documentary to mentally
>compare with all the PA films I've seen and think "yeah, I didn't
>think there'd be no evidence of civilisation in only 30 years."
>
>Is this a bad time to say that the other week I left my house to spend
>the cyclone at a friend's, looked at the 4 volume set of "How Things
>Work" and decide that, no, this wasn't "the end", they
could wait for
>that evacuation.
>
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>= DUG.
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Add in 'Lucifer's Hammer' as a good P-A novel, that tells the messy
story of the apocalypse itself...
Charlie
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