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On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:56 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > I am unfamiliar with almost all your allusions with the exception of "El > Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan" which I read in Spanish class many > years ago. > > Are the rest of you readers familiar with NotP, etc.? > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 9:25 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This discussion of alternate skinning and in particular the Mad Hatter's >> Tea Party triggers: >> >> I am just now (re)visiting Robert Heinlein by reading his posthumous >> "fork" of his classic Number of the Beast, Pursuit of the Pankera >> <https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49241808-the-pursuit-of-the-pankera>. >> The PotP was apparently pulled together with funding from a Kickstarter >> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612713154/robert-heinleins-unpublished-novel>! >> In fact it is more likely that NotB is the "fork" since the PotP material >> was apparently complete by 1977 and NOTB was published in 1980. As >> appropriate (maybe even somehow intended?) the NotB and PotP diverge about >> 20% into the material which is armatured around the conceit of the >> protaganist having invented a "continua" device capable of "sideslipping" >> across the (6^6)^6 {\displaystyle (6^{6})^{6}(6^6jjjor ~10^27 members of >> the multiverse (not 6^6^6 or ~10 followed by 1M 0s {\displaystyle >> 6^{6^{6}}}) >> >> It is suggested that this represents somehow the countable but huge >> continua of possible worlds that the human imagination is capable of >> creating, and *therefore* includes myriad variants on those described in >> various bits of classic literature... including notable "worlds" such as >> Barsoom, Oz, and the Red Queen's domain other-side of the looking glass. >> A dual, perhaps, of Borges' "Library of Babel", related to his "Garden of >> Forking Paths", each applying an allegorical treatment to the "many worlds" >> interpretation of QM. This also is nicely alluded to with Jasper Fforde's >> protaganist Thursday Next <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_Next> >> who is a "literary detective" pursuing crimes in the interstices of the >> literary multiverse where all of the characters (and settings) from >> literature live and go about "normal lives" while they are not busy >> appearing in their various novels. >> >> I'm finding Heinlein's preachy characters and prose excruciatingly >> painful... something I had a hint of in my youth when he was inspiring me >> toward his human-chauvanist (and confoundingly misogynistic, in spite of >> some very inspired female protaganists) Libertarian views... but I'm >> slogging through it anyway, a bit of a visit to my misspent youth and >> perhaps some stubborn attempt to be sure I've read all of his published >> works. It is somewhat useful for me as I try to make sense of the current >> (and all-time?) Right continuum (whackadoodle to centrist)... a revisiting >> to my own roots in such I suppose. I am left to wonder if Heinlein in >> his relative (or disturbed?) genius might tell entirely different stories >> if he understood the (unintended/unexpected) consequences of the manifest >> hubris of our human-chauvanist culture/industry/economy as it unfolded >> toward the end of his life into the present? >> >> ramble, >> >> - Steve >> >> >> On 8/4/20 4:57 PM, cody dooderson wrote: >> >> Could one level be a tea party level? Maybe Glenn Beck could be the Mad >> Hatter? >> >> Cody Smith >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:19 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Could each "shot" be a penny given to the Biden campaign? >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> Nicholas Thompson >>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology >>> Clark University >>> [email protected] >>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jon zingale >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:46 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OK. That's funny. >>> >>> Nick, you have just outlined the dream. The hope was to sell these at 99 >>> cents per download. The market for such disposable distractions appears >>> to >>> be firmly established, and potentially profitable. 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