For this installment of my science fiction reading project, I wanted to share with everyone a chapter out of one of my favorite “fantasy-like” science fiction novels: The Celestial Steam Locomotive Volume I of The Song of Earth.
The entire novel has a kind of mythic story-telling quality. It takes place so far in the future that the technology is indistinguishable from magic, and even events in our future are myths of the distant past for the characters in the novel. This chapter, Legend of the Wolf Cat, is a fanciful fairy tale that uses fable story-telling format to teach a lesson about jealousy, to explain continental drift, and to explain the name of a particular animal….
OK, I’ll admit it: the last part is my favorite part. It is the punch-line of the story, and the last line of the chapter. And it is one of the worst-best bad puns I’ve ever seen. I don’t want to give it away, you’ll just have to listen to the story….
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This one didn’t have any really funny screenshots to share. I promise I’ll be more “dramatic” for screen shots for future readings.
I don’t like the voice thing you did for the animals. It was weird.
Yeah, in retrospect I don’t think it’s that great either. I’m experimenting around with different ways to make it easy to tell when I’m doing voices of different characters… I’ll get better at it eventually, I promise! 🙂 🙂
Why don’t u just do like different voices? I mean without special effects and stuff.
I agree! I’m totally practicing but the whole “voice acting thing” doesn’t come naturally to me.
I tried doing it for the characters in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqupYWpXXRQ
Hopefully I will get better!! 😐
OK
Should I be ashamed that it took me two or three listens to that pun to understand it? I get it now, but it wasn’t immediately clear to me.
You clearly are not as well-versed in large wildlife as you should be… or something….