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Music speaks a thousand words. But then again, so does silence.
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With teeth gritted and fists clenched, Val said, “and even if i did have any body self-consciousness, which I don’t. It does not help that now i’m a freakin’ space-yak!” Audri looked at her hands and said, “I feel the same way at least about being a space-yak.” Annoyed, Val leaned against the balcony wall and said, “good. We’re on the same page. Can we please talk about something else?” Pointing at herself, Audri said, “hey, I was the one talking about love! Nick and I had a date planned tonight, and now i’m standing him up! Which isn’t my style! And he’s going to be upset and worried!” Audri started pulling bells out of her bandolier and continued, “Here, let me try to express how I feel.” Tongue hanging out, she began playing the bells — Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Wide-eyed, Val asked, “was that “I touch myself” by the Divinyls?” Smiling, Audri said, “dont worry, I wash my hands frequently.”
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I haven’t heard that song in a while, still haven’t, I just read the bell clangs.
Maybe it’s the lack of a straight man here, but I’m just really not finding either of these two particularly engaging. They’re supposed to be running from cops/people with guns, right?
I find their aimless banter sort of endearing. They could use to be interrupted by a third person or find some help, however.
Well, their chemistry is… lacking. Keep waiting for when this chapter finally engages the way the other ones did, and…it hasn’t happened yet.
I think that’s half the point, to start with anyway, that they’re VERY different people who have no natural chemistry, but will nonetheless find a way to FORCE it like how Fritz Haber finally found a way to break the Nitrogen Atomic triple bond efficiently for ammonia mass production (which most other chemists up to then had been increasingly cynical of ever being possible). It was a bigger deal than we ungrateful brats bother to learn anymore. The biggest famine EVER would have occurred by 1950 if he had failed.
My point is, almost ANY odd couple can make chemistry work if they’re desperate enough. Just give them time.
Ok, now I want more info.. WHAT famine?
Without looking it up, I believe it enabled the production of fertilizer (without manure or guano).
The hypothetical famine that Malthus was convinced would destroy the world, & he did have reason to fear it as all efforts to efficiently break the Nitrogen triple bond on an industrial scale in his lifetime were futile. Not until the Chemist Haber & the engineer Bosch’s technique of placing nitrogen in an extreme pressure chamber with an osmium catalyst (they use platinum nowadays for fewer toxic byproducts), were they able to finally prove the Malthusian pessimists wrong with artificial ammonia, that the growing world CAN be kept fed, with limitless fertilizer from the air.
A pity Haber didn’t stay neutral on the growing tensions in Europe like Randolph Diesel, although doing so plausibly cost Diesel his life. The two most likely suspects for his murder were either Rockefeller or Kiser Wilhelm, (via paid assassin or government agent); we’ll never know which, but it was definitely one or the other.
People with guns, sure. We’ve seen no evidence that the police are involved.
I mean, by now I’m rooting for whoever’s chasing them…
And I thought the relentless body self-shaming was too much information.
Sackety yaks.
Wait, now I’m lost. Where did the bells come from?
the fabricator made them to order a few pages earlier