Thanks Barry; I’m a long time reader of SF, but it’s also being looked at seriously by science & philosophy now I think?
> On Feb 21, 2020, at 10:43 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Doug,
> I like how you move from what you may have seen looking up (expressed in elevated diction) to a metaphysical question invoking a "topoi" of science fiction. Enjoyed as well the near "rhyme" with your quote from Robert Kroetsch.
> Barry
>
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:22:09 +0000, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> thanks Doug plenty of grey black moilings about here at the moment
>> cheers
>>
>> might prefer and to & ?
>>
>> On 19/02/2020 18:46, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>> the ever widening sky
>>> blue transparencies
>>> grey black moilings
>>>
>>> & far beyond that threshold
>>> stars slowly drift
>>> ever further apart
>>>
>>> in how many universes
>>> does someone have that thought
>>> at just this instant
>>>
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch
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