so slow when checking in only once a day. I wasn't trying to suggest he
wasn't 'pessimistic' Robin, but only that all that early work from the
UK, like the best SF from the US (which, yeah, of course I read)
provided plenty of ways of thinking the universe without a 'God.'
And thinking science as a way of evoking wonder at the universe, too....
(even if humanity was going to go down the tube....)
Doug
On 15-May-05, at 10:01 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> Good old Stapledon & Last and First Men surely does 'God' in pretty
>> thoroughly...?
>
> I think that *everything* Stapleton wrote was deeply pessimistic --
> think of
> +Odd John+.
>
> Or am I missing the point completely on this Doug?
>
> I'm (seriously) beginning to think so.
>
> "My brain's not right"
>
> Robin
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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There are places named for
other places, ones where
a word survives whatever happened
which it once referred to. And there are
names for the places water comes and touches.
But nothing for the whole.
Bill Manhire
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