A walk on the wild side

Jim Russell · 10 Aug 2000, 15:14 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: Jim Russell <J.A.Russell at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: (urth) A walk on the wild side
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:14:54 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
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This is completely irrelevant to the current field of=20
discussion, but I'm writing up my piece for the symposium=20
at the moment, and have just realised that there is a=20
question that I would be interested to hear anyone's=20
opinion on. Its fairly straightforward, so...

In Sword Cyriaca tells the story of the lost archive, and=20
states that at some point in the distant past the=20
starfaring dudes left their wild half behind, which was=20
then sold to the thinking machines who incorporated it into=20
their designs for cities etc, etc. Im sure you are all=20
fairly familiar with the passage. What interests me is:=20
What do you interpret this to mean? - or more precisely -=20
what do you think actually happened for these forms of=20
behaviour to be seperated?

Like I said, pretty straightforward, but I'd be really=20
interested to hear what anyone has to say.
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Jim Russell
University of Exeter

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