Tuesday, April 27, 2010

A woman a day

I discovered Philip Jose Farmer's relatively late in my adulthood and it was a a wild ride since then. Imagine seeing the old books or comics you have read during your childhood in a 3D. The old two dimensional heroes and villains not only look better but suddenly have also lost their black and white attributes and have become much more complex and interesting human beings. Imagine re-reading and re-living the old myths - an epic adventure in a strange but somehow familiar land. And you can probably understand the excitement I felt once I dived head first in the worlds of Kikaha and Annana, the red Orc and the wild and sexual Lord Tyger (Tarzan reincarnated) who kills an alligator with his knife and sleeps with a beautiful blond in the same night! Oh those happy days of daydreaming and little night sleep...

In the mad world of post 9/11 I always get an inspiration from great literature characters and a special place in my hearth is always reserved  for the flawed, vulnerable but so human and powerful characters of P.G. Farmer.  And here my friends I have to cut my story short as the night is still young and the savage, adult and none stop action stories of the world of tiers are calling me again.