Cowie was drawn to the challenge of embodying
the idea of the tangent, of conversation threads and the edges and intersections of communication.
Not exact matches
On a
tangent Jon my son (he's 4) asked me why he should support Arsenal, I said «well because I do, you're granddad does and your great granddad did» I was going to say its because
of the values and principles that our club has but then I stopped myself because I have no
idea what they are anymore other than paying a has been manager and over hyped players a fortune for non achievement while being owned by a majority shareholder that has no interest in the club other than as a business and having a board that view the fans as the gift that keeps on giving.
Anyway, a bit
of a
tangent, but I appreciate this
idea that the journey isn't perfect.
Narrative cohesion is sacrificed on the altar
of every outlandish
idea writer / director Don Coscarelli can fling, and by the time it's over the central story (let along the off - the - wall
tangents) has been such a barrage
of nonsense (literally) you'll struggle to remember most
of it.
I'd had the
idea for years
of writing a novel
of multiple viewpoints and loved the
idea of stream -
of - consciousness monologues but was aware that they could be a bit wearing on the reader if there were too many digressions and
tangents.
Seems simple enough, but the
ideas of Sine, Cosine and
Tangent functions may run the risk
of becoming lost on some students.
The world you rebuild is based upon Marxist philosophies established prior to this alternate timeline's divergent
tangent, meaning there are some terribly interesting mechanics, gameplay
ideas, and underlying psychological commentary running beneath the hood
of this terrifically quirky title.
I got off on a
tangent, a modest proposal that perhaps it was a better
idea to turn all those plastics into building materials that last instead
of disposable bottles that get dumped in the ocean - that if we are going to make plastic, let's make it last.