{"id":132,"date":"2009-09-12T21:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-09-12T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T01:18:12","slug":"the-disaster-in-lucifers-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/archives\/132","title":{"rendered":"The Disaster in Lucifer’s Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019ve got a hell of a story, he thought\u2026 Not only do millions think the world\u2019s going to end, but millions more hope so. It shows in their attitudes. They hate what they\u2019re doing, and keep looking nostalgically at the \u2019simple\u2019 life. Of course they won\u2019t voluntarily choose to be farmers or live in communes, but if everybody has to\u2026\u201d (159)<\/em><\/p>\n

People are becoming increasingly compelled and yes, hopeful for the hammer at this point of the novel.<\/p>\n

It can be speculated that the \u201cdisaster\u201d of this novel\u00a0actually underlies the comet and is within\u00a0the lives that\u00a0people made for themselves. She is growing tired of having to sleep around in order to keep her job and repeatedly needing to remind herself that she\u2019s not a tramp, and he is deeply unhappy from the pent-up sexual frustration in his marriage, cheats on his wife, and is now suppressing the guilt by repeatedly needing to remind himself that he loves his wife.<\/p>\n

People are waiting for a release from daily routine and anxieties. They are living in a prison (you can take it both figuratively and literally) and are so unsatisfied to the point that, after deeper consideration, the idea of a comet blowing up their world is not such a horrid idea after all.<\/p>\n

Additionally, as Harvey mentions on pg 159: \u201cbut if everybody has to\u201d- the idea of ALL <\/em>survivors starting over is what is especially satisfying. Social hierarchy will be shattered and re-built upon completely different standards. It won\u2019t be about the number of degrees you have under your belt, but how well you can cope in the wild- yeah\u2026no fridges and no Internet.<\/p>\n

In fact, almost all BS that people hold as high importance in today\u2019s society would be nothing amidst an apocalypse. No one is going to care about the $600,000 car you show off to pick up girls behind your wife\u2019s back, where you went to college or grad school with now your umpteenth degree, how embarrassingly large your debt is, or even something as stupid and minor as what she said or what he said. What people are really going to be needing are your inherent, cool-and-calm leadership qualities, or how much alcohol and bullets you have in stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019ve got a hell of a story, he thought\u2026 Not only do millions think the world\u2019s going to end, but millions more hope so. It shows in their attitudes. They hate what they\u2019re doing, and keep looking nostalgically at the \u2019simple\u2019 life. Of course they won\u2019t voluntarily choose to be farmers or live in communes,… Continue reading The Disaster in Lucifer’s Hammer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}