Hi Terry, and Harry,
For Terry:
Thanks for the U-Tube video Clip. I shall pass this along to my
Science Fiction friends in Madison.
For everyone else:
Here's what I previously said:
I suspect that if anyone were to be so foolish as to
conduct a seance and attempt to communicate with the
Errata
I meant to say:
...one of the last things I WOULDN'T do after I died would be to hang
around seedy séance chambers in the hopes of getting a message back to
the living that I was still alive.
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Terry, and
Author-Authur wrote a short story 55 years ago - “The Nine Billion Names of
God” which has not received as much comment in the various obits which have
come out -- as the more famous Childhood's End ... which curiously, was
written at almost the exact same time.
One of my favs. Here's the whole short story:
http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html
Terry
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author-Authur wrote a short story 55 years ago - The Nine Billion Names of
God which has not received as much
Thanks Terry for making this story available. Although Sir Clark
provides a cute tale, it resets on the hubris of the human belief that
God cares what we do and has any more or less interest than for the
billions of other aware life forms in the universe. In fact, the
salvation of our life
Edmund Storms wrote:
Thanks Terry for making this story available. Although Sir Clark
provides a cute tale, it resets on the hubris of the human belief
that God cares what we do and has any more or less interest than for
the billions of other aware life forms in the universe.
Yes, but
I realize the story is fiction and it does not represent Clarke's views.
In fact, the plot might even be considered sarcasm because it is based
on a simple-minded attitude that many people have about humans being
God's chosen people. Clarke might well have been poking fun at people
who think
Back in the late 1970s I actually had the fortune of being cast in a
small bit part for an amateur audio production of ACC's Nine Million
Names of God sponsored by our local Science Fiction community based
in Madison, Wisconsin. Thirty years later I remember very little about
the experience other
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's dead!
Is he? He lives within us and on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXQ7rNgWwg
His last public statements.
Terry
Edmund Storms wrote:
I realize the story is fiction and it does not represent Clarke's
views. In fact, the plot might even be considered sarcasm . . .
Yes, gentle sarcasm, although he would not be a bit surprised if
someone took it seriously.
To me, the story is a simple allegory that
On 28/3/2008 2:56 PM, OrionWorks wrote:
I suspect that if anyone were to be so foolish as to conduct a seance
and attempt to communicate with the spirit of Arthur from the Great
Beyond all they would get back for their efforts would be disturbing
visions of a black void filled with stern
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