Lara’s Book
Author: Douglas Coupland
Release: July 1, 1998
Tagline: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider™ Phenomenon
Publisher: Prima Games
Genre: Video Games, Strategy, History, Culture
ISBN-10: 0761515801
ISBN-13: 978-0761515807
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Quotes and Lines
…even if I were to die or somehow not even be a real person, I would always be real – or more real than real: hyper real – because my essence had expanded itself so hugely. And this would make me something strange indeed … … something eternal.
I think that we people are kind of lazy and arrogant when it comes to the future.
In the past century we’ve gotten used to having other people draw pictures of what the future’s supposed to look like – people like car makers and architects and Daddy and his stuffy club friends.
And we’d look at the pictures they’d hand us and we’d say, “Well, right then – no point working too hard, because the future’s going to look like tail fins and space hotels and food that comes in pills.”
But think about this: even a hundred years ago, people rarely ever thought about the future, and if they did, it wasn’t too hard and it wasn’t too clearly.
It’s really a peculiarity of modern life that the future exists as something to control and modify and anticipate and plan.
We’ve never been able to know the future. It isn’t knowable. It never will be. And we were silly gits to think it was ever possible.
Whatever Lara’s future holds, the world won’t have long to wait before they begin playing and active role. The next installment is slated for release just prior to Christmas 1998.