(urth) planetary problems

[James Wynn]

On 12/28/2010 10:53 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> James Wynn wrote (28-12-2010 16:26):
>> On 12/28/2010 10:06 AM,  wrote:
>>> wrote (28-12-2010 15:17):
>>>>
>>>>> Thomas Bitterman-
>>>>> The idea that astral travel uses mental maps rather than physical
>>>>> ones is a good one, at least as good as the "Silk = Blue" or "Blue is
>>>>> a time-traveling version of Green" theories that are going around.
>>>>
>>>> James Wynn-
>>>> Do you really think this is a possibility?
>>>
>>> António Pedro Marques-
>>> Besides the fact that it is *the* probable way a travel powered by the
>>> mind would work?
>>
>> I can't even imagine the mechanics of this. It sounds more like
>> mysticism than fantasy or SF. Either that is like one of those cartoons
>> from the 1930s where the characters walk in and out of books. Are you
>> saying that the Rajan psychically emplants himself in the memories of
>> other people or are you saying he's a meta-fictional character than can
>> travel through Wolfe's own novels?
>
> Sorry, you've lost me. You seem to be replying to Thomas's hypohtesis 
> that dream travel occurs between books that are close to one another 
> in the shelf. That's not what I commented on.

Oh. Sorry. It's just that was what _I_ was commenting on. That's what 
the thread was about. Your correction is quite terse. What are you 
talking about?

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