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Vanna Bonta (IPA: ['vɑː.nɑː 'bɒn.tɑː] born April 3, 1958) is a novelist, poet and actress. She is best known as the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (Meridian House 1996), the multiverse parallel dimension story of an amnesiac girl with no navel, and award-winning collections of poetry as well as for her cameo role as Zed's queen in the fantasy movie The Beastmaster. She is also the inventor of the 2suit, inventor of the 2suit, a garment for intimacy, work and thermal applications in the microgravity environments of space.

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[edit] Quotes

[edit] General sources

  • What goes up can continue.
    • Lyric from the song "What Goes Up". What Goes Up... Vanna Bonta film short, YouTube.
  • Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.
  • We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
    • Comment by Bonta on her blog, tweet about social media and World Party Day.[citation needed]
  • I was really gobsmacked.
    • Comment by Bonta upon being informed that a spaceship entered in the 2007 NASA Lunar Lander Challenge had been named Lauryad by rocket engineer Allen Newcomb, after the spaceship in her book Flight. A Spaceship For Sale On Ebay May Win Half A Million Dollars Space Travel, Exploration and Tourism February 07, 2007
  • I'm in love with the whole world.
  • Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
    • Holiday advice from Bonta essay "Ribbons vs. Strings" adapted to Christmas audio Tale "It's the Gift That Counts" (Holiday Magic 2005 CD). Vanna Bonta Has Holiday Gift Advice WAlEG Celebrities; December 16, 2006
  • Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
  • God and I were nude.
    • to a randy reporter about modelling au naturel for Woman in "Ex Nihilo," the Creation sculpture by Frederick Hart that frames a portal arch of the Washington National Cathedral. The Things They Say Reporter7; July 6, 2006
  • Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

[edit] Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)

Space: What love's got to do with it, by Vanna Bonta; The Space Review, October 25, 2004

  • I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality.
  • Love consults itself.
  • The success of SpaceShipOne was Justice Day for dreamers and pioneers past, present and future.
  • When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.
  • 'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

[edit] The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)

The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society ESA Publication; December 2005

  • Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.
  • Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
  • The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility.
  • Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

[edit] Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art], Dora Books, September 1, 1989

  • Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
  • She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.
  • Popularity is not an indication of quality.
  • I am, therefore I think.
  • People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
  • When we love there is no reason why.
    • "Nothing Besides Itself"
  • Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. ... I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile.
    • "Stella's Earrings"
  • The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.
    • "Do I Have To?"
  • In her heart she harbors hatred for me, but it would ruin the game if we didn't have tea. The words slither out laced with venom so vile it would pucker my face but she says it and smiles.
    • "Do I Have To?"
  • Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer.
    • "Vacuum"
  • Love is the eternal first breath.
    • "Home"
  • Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.
    • "Inversion"
  • Have you, with your work, made anyone glow? Erupted their sorrow? Evicted their woe? Have you been anyone's consolation through a night? Have you evoked unrehearsed emotion? Chiseled a crack in someone's encasement and watched them escape? Followed the muses wherever they led? Kept on creating when left for dead? Do not bother me with punctuation until you have earned your degree.
    • "To Some Critics"
  • Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
    • "The Enemy"
  • Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting."
  • Within me, and in others, what I seek to know is the darkness and the glory of all humanity. My vulnerability leads me to Truth, which is the ultimate defense."
  • The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul ... the soul ... There is no bandage -- even crying is in vain.
    • "Only the Soul"
  • Evil's last voice croaked to me, "How did you know I was only bluffing?" Because he wept. Because he wept.

[edit] FLIGHT: a quantum fiction novel (1995)

  • Which came first — the observer or the particle?
    • Preface
  • Once, before Time...
    • Prologue
  • Our trust exchanged dependency.
    • Ch. 1
  • He was acting on a reason other than the avoidance of pain. The sentiment was loyalty, and it felt glorious.
    • Ch. 3
  • The door swung smoothly open, surprising her. A girl stood there. Barefoot. Dressed in a trash bag.
  • Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense.
    • Ch. 15
  • I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.
    • Ch. 17
  • How amazingly genetic.
  • "Wake up!"
  • I suppose it would be a lot easier if a training manual were issued at puberty. Chapter One: what you're body is feeling isn't necessarily you.
  • Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?
  • Life kissed her however it could.
    • Ch. 22
  • Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.
    • Ch. 23
  • Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial."
    • Ch. 28
  • Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex.
    • Ch. 32
  • "Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"
    • Ch. 32
  • On Earth it was day in some places, night in others.
    • Ch. 44
  • It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true.
    • Ch. 48
  • "I hated you because you reminded me of...how I once was...of what I lost."
  • "It hurts to care! It hurts so much to care!"
  • Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.
  • There is no hospitality like understanding.
  • Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.
    • Ch. 50
  • Those who had entrusted their leaders knew it was for a purpose, and the purpose should be maintained.
    • Ch. 50
  • The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
    • Ch. 60

[edit] Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum Fiction: Author Interview (2007)

Author audio interview, Interview: Vanna Bonta talks about 'quantum fiction', IMDb, November 2007. Flight: a quantum fiction novel Audiogeist; February 11, 2008. Novel melds reality, fantasy by Kyle Bell; Alexandria Gazette; October 1996. Flight: quantum fiction and alternate realities Gaggle of Book Review; January 26, 2008. An Interview with Author Vanna Bonta Producer/director Laurel van der Linde interviews author Vanna Bonta about the emerging genre of quantum fiction; November 2007. Audiobook Podcasts November 13, 2011[specific citation needed]

  • Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a sub-atomic level.
  • Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe.
  • The genre is broad and includes life.
  • How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
  • Through the process of elimination, the observer or some aspect of awareness is indirectly quantified.
  • In life, the way we perceive life and reality is often instrumental in how things can unfold.
  • Through characters, non-linear plot lines, or the involvement of multiple dimensions, it ultimately witnesses the physical world as inextricable from consciousness or the observer of that world.
  • Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
  • Pythagoras' idea of the transmigration of the soul is central.
  • It's closer to Platonic Idealism in the theory that substantive reality is only a reflection of some other non-quantified spirit, awareness, consciousness, whatever you want to call it.
  • Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
  • I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay.
  • Various editors, senior editors at major houses who wanted the book said that they didn't quite know what genre it was.
  • I said, "...it is quantum fiction." The first line of the story is "Which came first, the observer or the particle?" - and it goes from there.
  • When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.
  • I certainly didn't write it to be popular.
  • The real plot in fiction parallels life in that it happens within the characters.
  • Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.
  • At the end of a person's life that's what they are looking at. What happened inside? How did that experience change me, and how did I change it?
  • In quantum fiction adventures, things like coincidences, synchronicity, telepathy, déjà vu, and an assortment of odd experiences that have been formerly the realm of the paranormal can now - at least theoretically - be explained by a new look at the physical world.
  • The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.
  • What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.
  • There are infinite possibilities.
  • People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.
  • As people become more aware of this universe as a quantum universe, it will embrace things like holographic entertainment experiences. Already, virtual reality and virtual interaction are an element of quantum fiction.
  • In Flight (a quantum fiction novel), essentially our protagonist is a writer who is writing a novel and then begins to see things from his novel occurring in the reality around him, and he questions "am I losing my mind?" or "am I somehow influencing reality around me?"
  • Essentially Flight is just an adventure of multiple realities.
  • Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

[edit] Shades of the World (1985)

  • The true poem rests between the words.
    • "Servants to Thought"
  • Love is a quality, not a quantity.
  • Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.
    • "Hearts"
  • Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.
    • "Gratuitous"
  • Understanding precedes peace.
  • There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!
    • "The Illusion"
  • Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in.
  • What goes up can continue.
  • You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.
  • What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.
    • "She's Dead?"

[edit] The Universe - Sex in Space (2008)

History Channel television series DVD

Bonta and her husband in zero gravity testing the 2suit.
  • The 2suit is a utilitarian garment that functions by itself as a flight suit, and can unzip or attach with velcro and attach to a partner's suit with very lightweight fabric inside that can expand.
  • One impression I had was how zero zero gravity is.
  • We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.
  • To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

[edit] Zero Gravity interview (2006)

Sex in Space, by Laura Woodmansee; Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. (August 1, 2006)

  • Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
    • p. 29
  • As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned.
    • p. 29
  • On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.
    • p. 31
  • Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.
    • p. 31
  • Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.
    • p. 75
  • Space settlements would also contain biospheres replicating Earth conditions and atmosphere."
    • p. 75
  • If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
    • p. 75
  • It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
    • p. 76
  • It’s vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity’s continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
    • Ch. 5
  • Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.
  • People have been making love and having sex in space over the thousands of years that our ancestors lived and traveled in small hunting-and-gathering bands. Earth is in Space.
    • p. 90
  • Sex in space is not about going somewhere else to have sex; it's ultimately about expanding beyond our immediate neighborhood, into a Universe to which we belong.

[edit] Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

  • The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
    • "The Beauty"
  • Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
  • Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
  • Always is no Time at all.
  • You won't feel under-dressed when with your naked heart you come to me, for mine is past the point to dress for company.
    • "Eeeeeee"
  • I wished to dub as Masters: Love, Truth, Serenity. They'd feed and house and teach me with total sovereignty.
    • "On the Avenue"
  • Flaws like roadmaps I see. They are detours to you that I don't take.
    • "Reach"
  • I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.
    • "Reflection"
  • Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.
  • You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
    • "Where No Word Can Travel"
  • I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.
    • "I Gave My Smile"
  • Life is my lover.
  • Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.
  • I wanted you to know me.
  • Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing.
    • "Your Kisses Are Thieves"
  • If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.
    • "Love Beyond Time"
  • Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.

[edit] Quotes about Bonta

  • Vanna's 2Suit is just one small step toward humankind colonizing the universe.
  • Now this is a writer.
  • I was inexpressibly struck, overtaken by chills, the likes of which I have not felt since the time I studied Sylvia Plath. Vanna Bonta is an important discovery.
    • Margherita Guidacci. Degrees, Thoughts Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales] Margherita Guidacci review
  • Ready to test that law [physics] and go where no man and woman have gone before is Vanna Bonta.
  • I think the concept of the 2suit is perfect. But I also think just the philosophy of thinking, thinking beyond normal into creating a suit for two people is wonderful.
    • John Spencer, President and Founder, Space Tourism Society, [History Channel, The Universe TV series], History Channel The Universe, Episode 36; December 2008

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