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 <sasm...@swcp.com> 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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612713154/robert-heinleins-unpublished-novel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 <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 >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of jon zingale >> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:46 PM >> To: 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. 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