planetary problems

António Pedro Marques · 28 Dec 2010, 16:53 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:53:06 +0000
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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James Wynn wrote (28-12-2010 16:26):
> On 12/28/2010 10:06 AM,  wrote:
>> wrote (28-12-2010 15:17):
>>>
>>>> Thomas Bitterman-
>>>> The idea that astral travel uses mental maps rather than physical
>>>> ones is a good one, at least as good as the "Silk = Blue" or "Blue is
>>>> a time-traveling version of Green" theories that are going around.
>>>
>>> James Wynn-
>>> Do you really think this is a possibility?
>>
>> Ant?nio Pedro Marques-
>> Besides the fact that it is *the* probable way a travel powered by the
>> mind would work?
>
> I can't even imagine the mechanics of this. It sounds more like
> mysticism than fantasy or SF. Either that is like one of those cartoons
> from the 1930s where the characters walk in and out of books. Are you
> saying that the Rajan psychically emplants himself in the memories of
> other people or are you saying he's a meta-fictional character than can
> travel through Wolfe's own novels?

Sorry, you've lost me. You seem to be replying to Thomas's hypohtesis that 
dream travel occurs between books that are close to one another in the 
shelf. That's not what I commented on.

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