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Joan D. Vinge
American
Author
Born:
Apr 2
,
1948
Also
Myth
Own
Queen
Time
Write
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
Joan D. Vinge
Life
Health
Change
Personality
Our
Characteristics
Out
Physical
Born
Life Experiences
Physical Health
Lays
Genetic
Know
Well
Blueprint
Experiences
Which
Us
Unique
Appearance
Basic
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
Joan D. Vinge
Time
Behavior
Maddening
Make
Contradictions
Same
Human
Same Time
Human Behavior
Fascinating
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Joan D. Vinge
Life
You
Kind
Vital
Developed
Studying
Anthropology
Existence
Listed
Human
Which
Holistic
Human Existence
Aspects
View
Necessary
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Joan D. Vinge
Immortality
Mortality
Obsession
Because
Human
Chose
Universal
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
Joan D. Vinge
Political
Write
Didactic
Want
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Joan D. Vinge
Goddess
Our
Emerging
Throughout
Unconscious
Over
Like
Venus
Cultures
Stories
Themes
Ages
Certain
Sea
Disparate
Basic
Widely
There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
Joan D. Vinge
Free
Lunch
Free Lunch
Least
Karmic
Thing
Level
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Joan D. Vinge
Time
Myth
Naked
Own
Relate
Easily
More
Could
Traditions
Listeners
Clothed
Storytellers
Meaning
Body
Each
Each Time
Deeper
Deeper Meaning
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge
Strong
First
Thinking
Characters
Strong Female
About
Write
Had
Female
Female Characters
Lot
Wanted
After
Decided
Story
Next
Novel
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge
World
Closed
Own
Our
Collapse
Our World
System
Out
Run
Would
Weight
Ecosystem
Gas
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge
Balance
Own
Ancestors
Human
Established
Upsetting
Humans
Fragile
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
Joan D. Vinge
Moon
Girl
Sets
Out
Naive
Also
She
Native
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
Joan D. Vinge
Natural
Queen
World
Own
Universe
Our
Seek
About
Also
Became
Within
Equilibrium
Snow
Story
Natural World
Large
Even
Lives
Need
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
Joan D. Vinge
Situation
Satisfied
Our
Earth
Never
Taken
Perhaps
Makes
Truly
Maybe
Far
Us
Unique
Thing
Humans
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Joan D. Vinge
You
Path
Every
Abandon
Must
Another
Forever
Choose
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
Joan D. Vinge
Queen
Made
Own
Control
Changed
Minds
Characters
Futures
Beyond
Well
Forced
Ultimate
Hearts
Snow
Unexpectedly
Them
Choices
Things
Profoundly
Fates
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Joan D. Vinge
Myth
After
Story
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