S&S vs. SF in BotNS

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Dec 2011, 19:11 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:11:37 -0800
Subject: (urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS
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Lee Berman wrote:

> I really feel that Wolfe is trying to send a diffferent message. What the ancients called
> magic, we call science and we tend to denigrate magic to fakery. But 10,000 years hence won't
> some people snicker at the ridiculous belief in "science" we have; laughing at such folly as
> neurology and sub-atomic physics as we snicker at thunderbolts from Zeus and witches riding
> brooms?

I'm not sure what people 10000 hence will laugh at. I hope they have
something to laugh at.

> I have had discussions myself with Gerry on layers of meaning so I hate to interfere in the current
> productive (imho) conversation. But I would like to ask Dan'l if, when he is discussing missing
> layers of meaning if he means only in the context of Wolfe literature or also in the realm of our
> lives and the universe.

By all means, I believe that there are such layers of meaning in
experiential reality.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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