In a message dated 11/24/2002 9:34:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I enjoyed it, though it's funny that you should call the Uplift universe anti- > Campbellian. Only with the aliens, only with the aliens. Ah, the change to the >>> works. Much better. >Considering Dr. Brin's apparent dislike for the sociological > impact of the hero myth, In movies or in real life? I didn't catch the latter. Then again I didn't catch the LOTR references the first time. >the fact that you'd point out that Earth, the star > of the show as it were, [I've already suggested to Dr. Brin that sooner or later he has to have an Uplift novel that does not have a single Earthclan character after the first chapter.] >is the only place where there can be dragons and > heroes is ironic. God is an iron. > > Does that imply then, that while Earthclan wears the white hat, they're just > a misguided member of the Four Galaxies? Not everyone wears the white hat. Remember some of them followed the Wormtounge, err Rohan, err umm Rothan. Yes Rothan. >Some kind of self-deluding race > that buys into that Campbellian nonsense? Those who do not study the past are condemed to look silly on Jeopardy. Realizing the use of myth in the past does not mean that we expect the same use of it in the future. (Except possibly when dolphins materialize out of nowhere to deliver cryptic messages.) > And BTW, William, you're the biggest Hoon fan I've ever spoken to. ;-) > > Jim The Tymbrimi and the Tytlal were both designed to be funny. A joke designed by the Hoon is going to be so much more funnier because they are going to CHOOSE to be funny. I do not view the idea that the Hoon will compete on Earth for the America's Cup as a possibility. I view it as an inevitability. Dr. Brin set up dominos A and B and C and D. I'm looking at E and F and Gee what do you mean they can't fit into the ride's cars at Disneyworld. Alvin's lodge is going to turn into a bigger hotel, a hotel with a stage. Then after a good run of HMS Pinafore, there will be a riot with the first performance of The Mikado, which obviously makes fun of Hoonish beroucracy. Again, a logical and inevitable conclusion drawn from the facts presented so far. And every time I look at that picture in Contacting Aliens, I think of pinstripe suits and just where the hell the strike zone ends. William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
