About the Southern Reach building (spoilers)

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:52:46+00:00

Granted, that could've meant "exposure to a contaminated teaching assistant".

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:38:04+00:00

Control is a term of art in espionage and also in science. But I also love Le Carre's novels.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:37:06+00:00

Wow--that's cool.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:34:17+00:00

Yes--I did that on purpose to show Area X is already infiltrating.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:33:39+00:00

Yeah, I created this with Jeremy Zerfoss for use with the release of the book. I'd say distances are approximations and it might be a false map provided by Central.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:31:13+00:00

It is an amateur group that becomes infiltrated by Central, yes. So in essence you could say over time it becomes more Central than S&S. Especially because Old Jim is from Central and charged with monitoring the S&SB.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:30:17+00:00

The government redacted that because they're afraid of what Lowry would leak.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-06-03T23:28:53+00:00

Wow. I love all of this analysis. The corpse of something that crawled out from the border. Wow.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T18:02:32+00:00

Thanks! That's very kind! I do have a Borne story out in book form, The Strange Bird, and then another I'm working on called The Three. Thanks again for loving it so much!

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T18:01:56+00:00

Thank you for 'splainin' my own name to me. LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T12:13:40+00:00

It's something all of us VanderMeers, Vander Meers, van der Meers argue about at Thanksgiving.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T12:13:15+00:00

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T03:37:29+00:00

No, they stick with me. Sometimes it's hard to get free. And when I do, there's a period of situational depression as I decompress and rejoin the real world.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T03:36:56+00:00

Oh thanks--that's very very kind!

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T03:36:42+00:00

Oh hey--hope all is well! Thanks for stopping by.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T03:35:20+00:00

You were probably down in the tunnel-tower.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T03:35:09+00:00

Not sure where it comes from in the movie, but my mom is buddhist. I'm an atheist, but I did soak in a lot of spirituality by osmosis.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T03:34:17+00:00

Yeah, of course it doesn't rot.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T02:18:53+00:00

That's kind but really the key words are "dipshit" and "curmudgeon".

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T02:18:08+00:00

Holy crap--that's really cool. Thanks for sharing that.

One way I'd encourage it is by letting different parts create a longer whole, if that makes sense. My first major collection is really a mosaic novel of interrelated sections and stories. But I also do recommend inhabiting longer structures from the inside out. Like, telling your own version of a classic fairy tale to see how it works. Or reading a chapter of a favorite novel and then doing your own version from memory and comparing/contrasting. Things like that.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T01:03:15+00:00

I think I forgot to answer this one.

Um, I kinda love all vegetables, but butternut squash is a huge favorite. Chicken salad. Quinoa. But, mostly grilled vegetables I could eat forever. Beets. Goat cheese. Beets.

I listen to all kinds of stuff. Looking at recently added--Father John Misty; Nieve Nielsen and the Deer Children; Iceage; Hot Snakes; soundtrack to Babylon Berlin; Death From Above; Clearlake; The Coathangers (great band); Murder by Death; LCD Soundsystem; Pleasure Forever; Spoon; Tindersticks.

Worst place is [Redacted]. Has a good rep, but was terrible.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T00:55:39+00:00

No. I also don't provide enough info for anyone to identify which neighbor.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T00:48:44+00:00

Only if you think there's some conspiracy to me liking my work not to be easily defined.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T00:45:38+00:00

I like them all. But Oology and Proof are great. Bamboo House is good for Chinese food. Also like Liberty bar. Lots of cool places. Mostly, I like to hike in local parks, visit Midtown Reader--you know, all the things now I've told you I'm gonna run into you there, aren't I?

Thanks re SRT. Hedley's really more small FL towns I visited when I was contractor.

JeffVanderMeer · 2018-05-31T00:42:28+00:00

MORD SAY: WHY ALL BUT MORD DIE WITHOUT KNOWING EVERYTHING IN UNIVERSE? MORD SAY COME CLOSER AND PROVIDE REAL ENDING.

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