More 5HC Variant texts

Michael Andre-Driussi · 12 Mar 2000, 10:53 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com>
Subject: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:53:39
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Well remembered Talarican!

Talarican wrote:

>I recall when I read the hardback library copy, I was struck by one
>particular passage that I was positive had been added from the older
>paperback version. It was in "A Story", where the Old Wise One was
>explaining to Sandwalker how the Shadow Childrens' "singing" worked. In the
>paperback version, as I recall, he said something like "Shake your hands.
>Now imagine your hands gone. That is what we shake. You may call it nothin=
g,
>but what you think is nothing holds all things apart. When it is gone, all
>the worlds are born". I seem to recall the hardback version continued with
>another new sentence, not present in the paperback, which indicated this
>"birth" would follow the collapse of the universe. (so the Shadow Children=
s'
>"singing" vibrates Einstein's Cosmological Constant, or Fred Hoyle's
>C-field? <g>)

Here is the 1976 Ace version (p. 95 in both the $1.75 and $2.50 version <g>=
):

"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.  When it is
gone, all the worlds will be born.  But now listen to me."

Here is the Scribners 1972(?) hardcover edition (p. 88):

"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.  When it is
gone, all the worlds will come together in a fiery death from which new
worlds will be born.  But now listen to me."

This is all I can do, since I don't have the ORBIT version.  But clearly
there is a difference between the Ace paperback and the Scribners
hardcover!

Sounds like a case for Robert Borski!

=3Dmantis=3D



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