rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (Default)
rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [personal profile] thefourthvine 2009-12-26 05:46 pm (UTC)

the theramin or whatever that horrible instrument is screeching and wailing on the soundtrack

If it's screeching, it wouldn't be a theremin. The theremin is the one that makes the high-pitched yet morose weebling noise instantly recognizable as the Generic Science Fiction Sound of the 50s and 60s.

in a moment apparently designed by Theodore Sturgeon solely to incite women everywhere to take to their - I don't know, typewriters, notepads, whatever they had back then - and write write write

Having read Mr. Sturgeon's short stories, I feel fairly confident in saying that whatever he may have been doing here, it wasn't unintentional.

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