Singleshot: To William

William Ansley · 08 Aug 2001, 22:50 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Singleshot: To William
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 22:50:26
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At 9:38 AM -0700 8/7/01, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>First of all, we're talking a little longer ago than mice. But let
>that pass; let us assume that we're talking about the small mammals,
>some of them pretty mouse-like, that existed contemporaneously with
>the later Age of Reptiles.

I could address some of your other comments in your reply to me and I=20
may do so later, but I feel I have to address your implication that=20
either I or Ray Bradbury believe that mice were contemporaneous with=20
dinosaurs.

I am sorry if my previous message was confusing. In it I quoted from=20
an article about a possible movie based on Ray Bradbury's story "The=20
Sound of Thunder." The passage from the article I quoted was mostly a=20
quotation from the story itself. So the stuff about mice was by=20
Bradbury. It was part of a lecture given to the time travellers=20
before they set off on their dinosaur hunt to explain why it was so=20
vitally important that they stay on the path (a metal walkway=20
levitating over the surface of the ground). The butterfly didn't get=20
crushed until quite a bit later in the story and wasn't discovered=20
until the end.

So Bradbury didn't think mice were contemporaneous with dinosaurs,=20
even if my clumsy juxtaposition of passages from different places in=20
his story made it seem as if he did. And I was just addressing=20
Bradbury's text.

--=20
William Ansley

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