<span>I just read in The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, which is a really wonderful book despite a weird last act, that if you spend all of your money on horses at the outset, you can travel 900 miles a day and get where you're going before anybody even gets hungry, much less consumptive. </span>
I can't find ANY evidence that backs me up, but I feel as if the song that plays towards the end of the video ("Home" by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros) has become a sort of cinematic shorthand for bittersweetness or turmoil, or what-have-you.
Brilliant. Is Qix next?
ReplyDelete<span>I just read in The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, which is a really wonderful book despite a weird last act, that if you spend all of your money on horses at the outset, you can travel 900 miles a day and get where you're going before anybody even gets hungry, much less consumptive. </span>
ReplyDeleteLOVE THIS.
ReplyDelete"Nobody wants to be the Carpenter!!"
This is epic truth.
Nice! I always loved playing that game, even though I never won. I wish there was a version available now - I bet I could beat it as an adult.
ReplyDeleteYour wish is our command--Virtual Apple lets you play.
ReplyDeleteI can't find ANY evidence that backs me up, but I feel as if the song that plays towards the end of the video ("Home" by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros) has become a sort of cinematic shorthand for bittersweetness or turmoil, or what-have-you.
ReplyDelete"No, shopkeep! Just the bullets."
ReplyDeleteI have a mild addiction to the iPhone version.
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