{"id":380,"date":"2007-03-08T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T00:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-07-29T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:38:48","slug":"sunnyvale-talk-castle-rock-with-gunnar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/sunnyvale-talk-castle-rock-with-gunnar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnyvale Talk; Castle Rock with Gunnar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was at the Sunnyvale Library on Wednesday night, I gave a talk about my life as a writer, read a short-short story \u201cPanpsychism Proved,\u201d\u009d and did some Q&A. I recorded the evening (with some fan noise in the background) and broke it into two podcasts, click the button below to hear them.<\/p>\n

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My neighbor Gunnar had his 73rd birthday. Gunnar is very New Age. He\u2019s even been to India! He\u2019s a fanatical coot like me, we both think everything\u2019s alive. I fed him lunch in my back yard. We ate tofu. And then we went for a hike at Castle Rock.<\/p>\n

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This is getting to be one of my favorite parks. There\u2019s a whole hidden zone that you can find if you buy the rock-climber\u2019s map for the park. These rocks each have names. This is the Castle Rock itself. I\u2019m glad I live in California.<\/p>\n

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Some idiot drew UFOs on a bunch of the rocks. As if you needed to draw <\/em>them\u2014when people like Gunnar and me can clearly see them anyway<\/em>. This rock is called Platypus Rock by the way. Gunnar’s Norwegian, he’s never heard of a platypus.<\/p>\n

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The branches are ideograms spelling out the code for the rest of my novel. I can\u2019t quite decipher them yet, though. It helps to take naps.<\/p>\n

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If you relaxed enough, maybe you could turn into dust. And turn that into something else. As my brah Sonic says, \u201cIf you push it far enough, your atomic silps lose it\u2014and your molecules fall apart. They\u2019re like, ‘Never mind that H-2-O jive, we wanna just be two H\u2019s and an O.’ And then if you knife right in, the dust congeals into a tree.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Shapeshifting for nice skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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