we are still innocent

[impersona]

So I was at Z's journal and watched the Carl Sagan autotune vid she linked, and was struck at how many good fic-able prompts there were in the man's language.  I hope I'm not seeming to trivialize or make trite his work, but a lot of these are really invocative and compelling, and I wanted to keep a list of them somewhere in case I need a prompt pool to draw from in the future.  A few of them seemed really good for Kingdom, particularly for inspiring Geld-era stories ("Testing the structure and consistency of the world", "If we do not destroy ourselves", and "Of exquisite interrelationships of the awesome machinery of nature").  Some of them pinged me for Perfect World and Arcadia as well.

My text is being funky.  Sorry I am too lazy to fix it now.

• I'm not very good at singing songs
  
  
• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe

• Some when-else in time

• We will one day venture to the stars

• A still more glorious dawn awaits

• The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
  
• Of exquisite interrelationships of the awesome machinery of nature

• In which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky

• Testing the structure and consistency of the world

• Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

• The sky calls to us

• If we do not destroy ourselves

• Full of strange sounding ideas

• When we are in fact visiting other worlds

• A morning filled with 400 billion suns

• The rising of the milky way

• The shore of the cosmic ocean

If you have any more prompts to suggest, or places where I can find good prompts, please drop me a comment!

Comments

[nanners]

My favourite Sagan quote, hands down: "The cosmos is also within us; we are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

[sporky_rat]

I like the B5 version of that quote better.
'We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest trying to figure itself out.'.