At Neil Gaiman’s, there’s an oracle up that I frequent from time to time. Today, I felt a bit uninspired and first I only asked it: “Will I have a nice weekend?” [To which the answer was, quite simply: Yes.]
But then I thought that that’s just not good enough of a question to ask an oracle, so I asked it, “What shall we do with the drunken sailor?”
Here’s the answer:
As I said in my speech, when you’re up against Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King and Peter Straub, and Jack Ketchum, then it really is an honour to be in that company.
I guess that means that Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Peter Straub and Jack Ketchum are drunken sailors and that I should just get a whiskey bottle and get on with it.
Couple both questions and it seems you will have a great weekend ahead :)
lol
Very true…
See, you need to be the right sort to get a proper reply from that Oracle. I shook the Oracle and all I got was “But it’s very out of print”. What does that mean, I wonder?
I guess it wants to tell you that your answer/question is so specific that not many people want to hear it and it’s therefore out of print.
Or something.
Maybe you just didn’t think hard enough about your question?