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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612713154/robert-heinleins-unpublished-novel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 <thompnicks...@gmail.com > <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Could each "shot" be a penny given to the Biden campaign? > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com > <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of jon zingale > Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:46 PM > To: friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> > 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. Further, to pull a > variant of a Moby, redirecting the profits to one campaign or > another could > potentially make a change. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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