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Found in a .txt document of random notes I'd saved on my desktop:
The Liars' Club - "Where the only truth is that everything here is a lie."
There's an establishment in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood that I used to pass by all the time whenever I drove up to DePaul, and it was, indeed, called "The Liar's Club." For a while now, I've had the seeds of a short story set in a fictional Liars' Club (note the subtle change from singular to plural here) told from the POV of a Mostly-Innocent Bystander (perhaps a bartender at the bar, or related to a bartender, or maybe a fly on the wall who gets swatted at the end of the story) who barely bats an eyelash at the well-groomed businessman talking about his exploits as the most-expensive whore this side of the city one night and then boasting about his religious belief in chastity the next. This Liars' Club is a place where you can bullshit all you want and no one will call you on it - and if they do, it's seen as a challenge to be even more mendacious and outrageous.
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Venus of Dreams by Pamela Sargent is an intriguing novel, first in a trilogy, set in a future where Earth is actively trying to terraform Venus. There's a lot to chew on here, ranging from the fact that the dominant ruling ideology has shifted from Christianity to Islam (o noes how unpatriotic!), to how Sargent handles changes in Earth's society and how these changes have affected the cultural attitudes of her characters, to the fact that, hey, the Earth is actually trying to terraform motherfucking Venus.
-Reileen
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The Liars' Club - "Where the only truth is that everything here is a lie."
There's an establishment in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood that I used to pass by all the time whenever I drove up to DePaul, and it was, indeed, called "The Liar's Club." For a while now, I've had the seeds of a short story set in a fictional Liars' Club (note the subtle change from singular to plural here) told from the POV of a Mostly-Innocent Bystander (perhaps a bartender at the bar, or related to a bartender, or maybe a fly on the wall who gets swatted at the end of the story) who barely bats an eyelash at the well-groomed businessman talking about his exploits as the most-expensive whore this side of the city one night and then boasting about his religious belief in chastity the next. This Liars' Club is a place where you can bullshit all you want and no one will call you on it - and if they do, it's seen as a challenge to be even more mendacious and outrageous.
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Venus of Dreams by Pamela Sargent is an intriguing novel, first in a trilogy, set in a future where Earth is actively trying to terraform Venus. There's a lot to chew on here, ranging from the fact that the dominant ruling ideology has shifted from Christianity to Islam (o noes how unpatriotic!), to how Sargent handles changes in Earth's society and how these changes have affected the cultural attitudes of her characters, to the fact that, hey, the Earth is actually trying to terraform motherfucking Venus.
-Reileen
I've got a fast connection, so I don't have to wait