The world can absorb two compelling comet stories.
Isn’t “Don’t Look Up” an excellent comet movie? I feel comfortable stating for the record that I have seen three comet movies: “Deep Impact,” “Armageddon,” and now this one, and I feel “Don’t Look Up” is the best.
There are a couple of stories in “Limericks of Loss And Regret” that deal with extinction-level events, one of which is “Imperator,” also about a comet that everyone knows is coming and how a few characters react to that. It is, quite possibly, one of the greatest short stories ever written, or at least of the stories included in “Limericks of Loss And Regret.”
Q. But wait, isn’t “Limericks of Loss And Regret” a book of limericks? I mean, the very word is in the title.
A. Thank you, Alan. I can see why you might be confused, especially considering the rhomboid shape of your skull. “Limericks of Loss And Regret” is a collection of 50 limericks and 50 short stories—like “Imperator”—designed to be read one per year for the next century.
The words above may or may not have appeared in that transformational unit of literature known as “Limericks of Loss And Regret.”
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ISBNs
LLR paperback: 978-1735343402
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