Future Echoes: Hut in the Jungle +

Son of Witz · 20 Mar 2009, 17:10 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:10:52 +0000
Subject: (urth) Future Echoes: Hut in the Jungle +
Message-ID: <W6894120517125921237569052@webmail16>

Wow.
The wine goblet.  duh...
this is too cool.
~witz


John Watkins wrote:
>
>I started to say, "Yes, that made it look like the miracles were a religious
>thing--regilding things, making them more perfect, et cetera, which is not
>obviously connected to time travel."
>
>And then I remembered who Wolfe's favorite novelist is.  Proust.  "In Search
>of Lost Time."  "Time Regained."
>
>Sometimes the answers are simple.
>



Jordon Flato wrote:
>
>> And, if the goblet of water that turns to wine in the Inn in Saltus USED to
>> have wine in it before it held water, that would explain that 'miracle'
>> also...a reversal of time.  This 'miracle' has always plagued me as being
>> qualitatively different than the rest.

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