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TheSanityInspector
Jun 15, 2016, 10:54:34 AM6/15/16
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Once in his life a man [or woman] ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wander upon it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and colors of the dawn and dusk.
-- Belden C. Lane, Landscapes of the Sacred, 2002
[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
-- John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, 1600s
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam
-- Belden C. Lane, Landscapes of the Sacred, 2002
[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
-- John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, 1600s
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam
SteveMR200
Jun 16, 2016, 8:03:04 AM6/16/16
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 07:54:33 -0700 (PDT), TheSanityInspector wrote in
message: <146cb8e8-864a-4fc9...@googlegroups.com>:
>Once in his life a man [or woman] ought to concentrate his mind
>upon the remembered earth.
sale he made to the would-be pioneers who passed through
here. Books, printed on paper, every one of them! Dead
tree technology! Information, that if carefully stored,
would last for millennia! And no batteries required.
It ought to be on a billboard, he thought.
If Humphrey Llewellyn III could have his way, every
book ever written would be treasured, at least one
copy bound in sheepskin and illuminated by monks (or
specifically by naked nuns, his predilection being
somewhat biased in that direction).
So now, he hoped, here was a chance to bring mankind
back into the book-loving fold. He gloated. There
was still no electronics in the pioneers worlds, was
there? Where was your internet? Hah! Where was
Google? Where was your mother's old Kindle? Your
iPad 25? Where was Wickedpedia? (Very primly, he
always called it that, just to show his disdain;
very few people noticed.)
All gone, unbelievers! All those fancy toy-gadgets
stuffed in drawers, screens blank as the eyes of
corpses, left behind. Books--oh yes, real books--
were flying off his shelves.
Out in the Long Earth humanity was starting again in
the Stone Age. It needed to know the old ways. It
needed to know what to eat and what not to eat. It
needed to know how to build an outdoor privy, and
how to manure fields with human and animal waste in
safe proportions. It needed to know about wells.
About shoemaking!
Yes, it had to know how to find iron ore, but also
how to work graphite, and how to make ink. And so
Humphrey's presses ran hot, with geological maps
and surveys and commonplace books and almanacs,
reclaiming the knowledge that had been all but
lost to the printed page.
He stroked a polished-leather volume. Oh, sooner
or later all that knowledge once more would be
precariously imprisoned by electricity. But for
now the books had been patient long enough,
and their time had come again.
--Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
_The Long Earth_ [2012], Chapter 17
--
Steve
message: <146cb8e8-864a-4fc9...@googlegroups.com>:
>Once in his life a man [or woman] ought to concentrate his mind
>upon the remembered earth.
>-- Belden C. Lane, Landscapes of the Sacred, 2002
Richmond West 10's only bookseller exulted with every
sale he made to the would-be pioneers who passed through
here. Books, printed on paper, every one of them! Dead
tree technology! Information, that if carefully stored,
would last for millennia! And no batteries required.
It ought to be on a billboard, he thought.
If Humphrey Llewellyn III could have his way, every
book ever written would be treasured, at least one
copy bound in sheepskin and illuminated by monks (or
specifically by naked nuns, his predilection being
somewhat biased in that direction).
So now, he hoped, here was a chance to bring mankind
back into the book-loving fold. He gloated. There
was still no electronics in the pioneers worlds, was
there? Where was your internet? Hah! Where was
Google? Where was your mother's old Kindle? Your
iPad 25? Where was Wickedpedia? (Very primly, he
always called it that, just to show his disdain;
very few people noticed.)
All gone, unbelievers! All those fancy toy-gadgets
stuffed in drawers, screens blank as the eyes of
corpses, left behind. Books--oh yes, real books--
were flying off his shelves.
Out in the Long Earth humanity was starting again in
the Stone Age. It needed to know the old ways. It
needed to know what to eat and what not to eat. It
needed to know how to build an outdoor privy, and
how to manure fields with human and animal waste in
safe proportions. It needed to know about wells.
About shoemaking!
Yes, it had to know how to find iron ore, but also
how to work graphite, and how to make ink. And so
Humphrey's presses ran hot, with geological maps
and surveys and commonplace books and almanacs,
reclaiming the knowledge that had been all but
lost to the printed page.
He stroked a polished-leather volume. Oh, sooner
or later all that knowledge once more would be
precariously imprisoned by electricity. But for
now the books had been patient long enough,
and their time had come again.
--Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
_The Long Earth_ [2012], Chapter 17
--
Steve
David C Kifer
Jun 16, 2016, 4:16:59 PM6/16/16
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is coming out. I'm not sure if it will be included in the next monthly catalog [due here in a couple
weeks] or "pre-order", but either way, it won't be long. It's book #5 and the conclusion to the Long
Earth series. Just thought you might might like to know if you haven't already heard about it.
ObQ:
She moved like someone who had grown used to her body and, in general, looked like what Vimes had
heard described as "a woman of a certain age." He'd never been quite certain what age that was.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
SteveMR200
Jun 17, 2016, 10:40:14 AM6/17/16
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:16:07 -0400, David C Kifer wrote in message:
<njv1e...@news4.newsguy.com>:
>On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:02:42 -0800, SteveMR200 wrote in message:
><mq85mbtfsmf3d4oet...@4ax.com>:
"The Long Cosmos" was released on June 14th, however
as of this morning there hasn't been any customer
reviews. I think I'll hold off a making a
purchasing decision until there are.
ObQuote:
The smartest thing that any supercomputer could do
the moment it was switched on would be to make
certain that it couldn't be switched off again.
--"Joshua Valiente"
(A character in Terry Pratchett &
Stephen Baxter's
_The Long Earth_ [2012], Chapter 19)
--
Steve
<njv1e...@news4.newsguy.com>:
>On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:02:42 -0800, SteveMR200 wrote in message:
><mq85mbtfsmf3d4oet...@4ax.com>:
>
>> He stroked a polished-leather volume. Oh, sooner
>> or later all that knowledge once more would be
>> precariously imprisoned by electricity. But for
>> now the books had been patient long enough,
>> and their time had come again.
>> --Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
>> _The Long Earth_ [2012], Chapter 17
>
>I just got notice from the Science Fiction Book Club that
>_The Long Cosmos_ by Pratchett and Baxter is coming
>out. I'm not sure if it will be included in the next monthly
>catalog [due here in a couple weeks] or "pre-order",
>but either way, it won't be long. It's book #5 and the
>conclusion to the Long Earth series. Just thought you
>might like to know if you haven't already heard about it.
Thanks for that info, Dave. According to Amazon.com
>> He stroked a polished-leather volume. Oh, sooner
>> or later all that knowledge once more would be
>> precariously imprisoned by electricity. But for
>> now the books had been patient long enough,
>> and their time had come again.
>> --Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
>> _The Long Earth_ [2012], Chapter 17
>
>I just got notice from the Science Fiction Book Club that
>_The Long Cosmos_ by Pratchett and Baxter is coming
>out. I'm not sure if it will be included in the next monthly
>catalog [due here in a couple weeks] or "pre-order",
>but either way, it won't be long. It's book #5 and the
>conclusion to the Long Earth series. Just thought you
>might like to know if you haven't already heard about it.
"The Long Cosmos" was released on June 14th, however
as of this morning there hasn't been any customer
reviews. I think I'll hold off a making a
purchasing decision until there are.
ObQuote:
The smartest thing that any supercomputer could do
the moment it was switched on would be to make
certain that it couldn't be switched off again.
--"Joshua Valiente"
(A character in Terry Pratchett &
Stephen Baxter's
_The Long Earth_ [2012], Chapter 19)
--
Steve
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