Horns abilities

Marc Aramini · 26 Oct 2011, 15:21 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Horns abilities
In-Reply-To: <4EA8243C.7000605 at gmail.com>
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--- On Wed, 10/26/11, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I chose the word 'consensus' precisely because it doesn't
> mean 'unanimity'.

In Bill and Ted, a garbage nonsense movie, their ability to influence the course of events is absurdly "ghost in the machine" type stuff.  They need help out of a tight spot so they simple say stuff like, "Let's not forget to provide for that eventuality and aid ourselves later by coming back in time and fixing it."  Then, they are instantly aided.  

The system of cause and effect is reversed and undermined, and I think the same thing is ocurring in the Wolfe story.  And I'm telling you it's definitely time travel related in one fashion whether anyone on earth except one or three other men agree with me or not, that's all there is to it.  A woman knows the child is hers, a man has faith that it is.  That's all I want to say on it.

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