Jay Barnes
August 1, 2024
How do those cylinder TVs work, anyway?
In the back of my mind, I had this memory about a book I read a long, long time ago. Talking lizards with their own town, and they would watch TV on a spinning stone cylinder, with their eyes closed…
I was able to get a copy of “Lizard Music” last week and finally gave it a re-read. What a fun story, no wonder I remembered parts of it! Thank you for helping to stoke the fire that’s kept me reading all these years!
Daniel replies:
You're asking me? How does something I wrote about work? In this case How do the sort-of Tibetan prayer wheels the lizards use to watch TV work? What makes you think I have a clue? If you go to the Library of Congress site, you can see 134 titles attributed to me, plus maybe some stuff that hasn't been cataloged. In every case, I started out by asking, "Book? What's a book? Who writes them, and how do they go about it?" Typing, and to a limited extent, spelling, are my skills, not knowing things. Sorry to have been no help with your question.
