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I love the fact that Rimmer doesn’t respect the dead and just kick the Creator’s body in the balls, coming from a dead man, that’s ironic...

Come on Rimmer, your Chris is showing, you had more than enough sitcoms, A Prince Among Men for example, wasn’t really necessary, was it? lol

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The Stone Sky

“The Stone Sky” demonstrates how resistant some people are to change through its narrator, Qfwfq, because he sought to find Rdix following her abduction simply so that they could return to their old routine. Furthermore, the story expresses the dangers of unchecked curiosity. Before Rdix’s abduction, she and Qfwfq lived together beneath the earth’s surface in one of its many cores. They often explored Earth’s inner layers in an attempt to reach the center of the Earth, where they would “start to make it liveable from its core outwards,” (Calvino 334). The outer layer of the Earth, which humans inhabit, frightened them. One day, while Rdix was sating her curiosity through exploration, she went into the mouth of an “extinct” volcano. The narrator is discomforted by the sound of an earthquake and chooses to retreat back inside of the crater. Meanwhile, Rdix was drawn out of the darkness by the unfamiliar sound(s) she heard and explored the area around the volcano. Suddenly, Rdix is snatched and taken away, exiled to the outer portion of the Earth. The narrator retreats further into the darkness—he is happy he escaped the “torturous” outer world but overwhelmed by Rdix’s loss. He vows to retrieve her. Eventually, a volcano erupts and Qfwfq takes the lava flow up to the Earth’s surface where he hears a song, which contains Rdix’s voice and approaches it. The narrator catches a glimpse of Rdix and continues his approach, only to find that she and her captor had vanished without a trace. Qfwfq returns home in temporary defeat, (he will have his revenge). Qfwfq renews his vow to retrieve Rdix, his desire stemming both from a need for things to return to what they once were and an inability to figure out what to do without Rdix present. Although he views Rdix as a “prisoner” of the outer world, Qfwfq seems as though he only wants her back to imprison her himself by forcing her not only to live within the Earth, but to continue their descent to the center of the Earth. He never says he loves or misses her as an individual.

Rating: 2.3/5 stars

Source:

Calvino, Italo. The Complete Cosmicomics. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.