I tried prognosticating the end of the world by spreading several boxes of
Nabisco Wheat Thins crackers on the floor in various tile patterns and then
divining the prediction from that arrangement. The problem I encountered was
different arrangements resulted in different predictions, such as the world
already ended 40,056,333 years ago, or that it will end 98,770 years from now,
as an example.
I have to conclude that my method does not work any better than any other
prediction I have come across. I chose Wheat Thins to make the tile arrangement
because I had not eaten any for years, and coming across a box I discovered,
unlike many years ago, they now contain annato extract and turmeric oleoresin
which gives them a much more appealing color, and vaguely resembled some of the
Westminster tiles in the floor pictured in the article Turq mentioned.
Others also predict various past and future states of our World, and they do
not agree exactly but there is some similarity; here are links to two videos
which show the state of the continents of Earth from about 600,000,000 years
ago to 100,000,000 to 250,000,000 years from now, based on the science of plate
techtonics. There is no end of the world here, things just move around a bit.
As these dates lie outside human existence, I am spared from participating in
the discussion of literature that followed Turq's post and revealing my
ignorance of these writers and their respective abilities.
http://youtu.be/NYbTNFN3NBo
http://youtu.be/uGcDed4xVD4
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote:
>
> Follett is not a good writer, but he does tell a good story and I liked the
> history involved. Shardlake is on my list for this Fall. I added him when
> you posted your suggestions a few months ago. I just read At Home by Bill
> Bryson and really enjoyed all the historical info, now reading People of the
> Book by Geraldine Brooks (again not literature, but the history is good -
> about saving and restoring an old haggadah). Cleopatra by Stacey Shiff is
> next, then Shardlake.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So says a scholarly article at the following link, which
> > > > describes a newly-restored stone tapestry in Westminster
> > > > Cathedral, which some believe reveals the date of Doomsday.
> > > > http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/5731/weaving_the_worlds_end.html
> > > >
> > > > Fascinating article, really.
> > > >
> > > It is. Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth) could do a whole
> > > book about this this beautiful stone work.
> >
> > Oh, please, no. I just finished Pillars, and I kept
> > wishing C.J. Sansom, author of the Matthew Shardlake
> > novels I posted about here awhile back, could have
> > written it. What a contrast! Such great material, and
> > such a pedestrian treatment by Follett. Maybe if I
> > hadn't read the Sansom novels first, I wouldn't have
> > been so disappointed.
> >
>
