tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904298510069073946.post6228996505061780038..comments2024-01-21T11:22:28.211-08:00Comments on The Ants Of God Are Queer Fish: Short Story Review # 7: The Transcendent Tigers (1964)Daniel Otto Jack Petersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07278782665152906956noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904298510069073946.post-24713690674487532712015-09-01T01:06:02.905-07:002015-09-01T01:06:02.905-07:00You know, crazily, I never quite saw this as an en...You know, crazily, I never quite saw this as an end-of-the-world story until I saw another reviewer characterise it that way recently, and then your comment here. I don't know how I missed that. It does seem to imply that this will go on to the demise of the whole planet. Seen that way, it is quite the unique apocalypse - gleeful as you say, even silly, and thereby all the more terrifying. Another song running through my head (making me laugh and scaring me all the more) is 'Needles and Pins'. :) <br /><br />I saw her today, I saw her face<br />It was the face I loved and I knew<br />I had to run away and get down on my knees and pray<br />That they'd go away<br />But still they begin<br />Needles and pins<br />Because of all my pride...Daniel Otto Jack Petersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278782665152906956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904298510069073946.post-16136000797781504762015-08-31T13:48:13.580-07:002015-08-31T13:48:13.580-07:00I have always categorized this story in my mind as...I have always categorized this story in my mind as a gleeful little ditty about the total destruction of the world, along with "Doctor Strangelove," the first chapter of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>, and of course, Tom Lehrer's gleeful "We Will All Go Together When We Go". <br /><br />Just sing along with me:<br /><br />"And we will all go together when we go.<br />Ev'ry hottentot and ev'ry eskimo.<br />When the air becomes uranious, <br />And we will all go simultaneous.<br />Yes we all will go together<br />When we all go together, <br />Yes we all will go together when we go."Kevin Cheekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17615258563790520320noreply@blogger.com