Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 04 Jun 2010, 14:32 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:32:31 -0500
Subject: (urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe
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On 6/4/2010 8:19 AM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Dreams don't take place in linear time.

That makes it even less likely - how does a person's sleeping mind 
select an images of an event from among all the events, ever? Imagine a 
radio that picks up not only every station in the world, but every 
program every station has ever played.

When Clarke used the idea in CHILDHOOD'S END, it made bit more sense: 
the occupation of the Earth by aliens was a singular event in human 
history, and signaled the approaching end of human history.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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