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by deSitter
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7/28/04 1:19:17 AM
7/28/04 1:19:51 AM
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New What a strange synchronicity
I was just reading about the terrifying effects of datura, and thinking the very same thing - man is not meant to know some things. In AC Clarke's "Childhood's End", at one point a Ouija board is produced. The Overlords are fascinated by Earth's occult behaviors - for reasons men don't get. In any case the Ouija board spells out

REMEMBERMANISNOTALONENEXTTOMANISCOUNTRYOFOTHERS

I get goose bumps as I write that - the greatest single moment in science fiction. Man is becoming not-Man, and there won't be any resemblence.

Thanks for the synopsis, I suppose I will read it after all. I've got an IWETHEYer expert a few miles distant.
-drl
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What a strange synchronicity
I was just reading about the terrifying effects of datura, and thinking the very same thing - man is not meant to know some things. In AC Clark's "Childhood's End", at one point a Ouija board is produced. The Overlords are fascinated by Earth's occult behaviors - for reasons men don't get. In any case the Ouija board spells out

REMEMBERMANISNOTALONENEXTTOMANISCOUNTRYOFOTHERS

I get goose bumps as I write that - the greatest single moment in science fiction. Man is becoming not-Man, and there won't be any resemblence.

Thanks for the synopsis, I suppose I will read it after all. I've got an IWETHEYer expert a few miles distant.
-drl
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     What is the "Lord of the Rings" about? - (deSitter) - (39) - July 27, 2004, 02:49:54 AM EDT
         Step One. - (static) - (6) - July 27, 2004, 02:54:59 AM EDT
             No. - (deSitter) - (5) - July 27, 2004, 03:09:56 AM EDT
                 Oh, really? - (CRConrad) - July 27, 2004, 03:30:01 AM EDT
                 Then I shan't tell you what it's about. :-) -NT - (static) - July 27, 2004, 03:31:33 AM EDT
                 I consider it to be among the best things written - (imric) - July 27, 2004, 07:15:25 AM EDT
                 OK, what is the last 900 pages book - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 10:14:36 AM EDT
                     Re: OK, what is the last 900 pages book - (deSitter) - July 27, 2004, 12:35:13 PM EDT
         Money -NT - (drewk) - July 27, 2004, 04:44:32 AM EDT
         Rings. -NT - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 27, 2004, 04:50:09 AM EDT
             Lords -NT - (broomberg) - (2) - July 27, 2004, 06:47:04 AM EDT
                 Profit! -NT - (folkert) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 07:07:06 AM EDT
                     The trilogy is about The Ferengis? :-D -NT - (lincoln) - July 27, 2004, 04:39:10 PM EDT
         Good and Evil, Friendship, Power, stuff like that. - (Another Scott) - (18) - July 27, 2004, 08:29:43 AM EDT
             Attention folks, this is the right answer - (deSitter) - (16) - July 27, 2004, 12:25:43 PM EDT
                 Er... - (admin) - (2) - July 27, 2004, 12:29:28 PM EDT
                     Re: Er... - (deSitter) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 12:36:58 PM EDT
                         Fie on such a '04 Pedestrian desire, even in jest-iculation - (Ashton) - July 27, 2004, 05:00:46 PM EDT
                 No, THIS is the right answer: - (pwhysall) - July 27, 2004, 03:39:17 PM EDT
                 No, it's *not* the right answer. - (static) - (11) - July 27, 2004, 09:29:56 PM EDT
                     Re: No, it's *not* the right answer. - (deSitter) - (10) - July 27, 2004, 09:41:20 PM EDT
                         eh? LOTR is time spent away from drudge (reporting or work) - (boxley) - (4) - July 27, 2004, 09:53:55 PM EDT
                             just never warmed up to this kind of fantasy - (deSitter) - (3) - July 27, 2004, 09:58:02 PM EDT
                                 not so much fantasy as much as the world circa 400 AD - (boxley) - July 27, 2004, 10:02:08 PM EDT
                                 Simple - (bepatient) - July 27, 2004, 10:38:36 PM EDT
                                 Let's let Tolkien defend fantasy in his own words - (ben_tilly) - July 28, 2004, 04:51:54 AM EDT
                         That's what you should have said in the first place. - (static) - (4) - July 28, 2004, 01:08:25 AM EDT
                             What a strange synchronicity - (deSitter) - July 28, 2004, 01:19:51 AM EDT
                             Most pithily summarized. - (Ashton) - July 28, 2004, 02:03:27 AM EDT
                             Corrections - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 28, 2004, 03:33:36 AM EDT
                                 I stand corrected. - (static) - July 28, 2004, 03:44:17 AM EDT
             The ravages of war, - (Steven A S) - July 29, 2004, 07:05:10 PM EDT
         either read the dam thing or dont - (boxley) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 09:06:45 AM EDT
             Never saw a machine named that way... - (admin) - July 27, 2004, 10:30:01 AM EDT
         Short people, elves, and whupass. - (admin) - July 27, 2004, 10:32:24 AM EDT
         If you want the short version... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 11:09:20 AM EDT
             Don't feed smug sloth, you ninny. -NT - (Ashton) - July 27, 2004, 05:04:30 PM EDT
         You want to know what the buzz is about? - (Silverlock) - (2) - July 27, 2004, 07:58:35 PM EDT
             You've been waiting for a chance to use that, haven't you? -NT - (inthane-chan) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 08:00:48 PM EDT
                 Chenyin'-A right I have! -NT - (Silverlock) - July 28, 2004, 11:30:24 AM EDT

Somewhat classier digs than the last version.
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