--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > > > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > >
Another science fiction author, Philip K. Dick, > once wrote a novel in which the I Ching figured > prominently in the plot. The hidden secret of the > book, that he revealed at a sci-fi conference I > once attended, was that the I Ching wrote the book. > He just started writing, with no fixed ending in > mind, and every time he got to a point in the plot > where he had to make a decision as to whether to > turn "left" or "right," he threw a hexagram and > did what it said. I always thought that was a > pretty neat use of the I Ching. > Is that the "mars is heaven" story? I seem to remember that, a long time since I read it. I was always a big Bradbury and PK Dick fan I'll go back and re-read them just to see how I interpret them these days. Talking of random strangeness did you ever read "The dice man" by Luke Rhinehartn ,now there was a wild idea a guy decides to live his life on the throw of a dice. He draws up six options for everything including things he really doesn't want to do and then unquestioningly follows it's orders. Try it if you haven't already.
