(urth) planetary problems

[António Pedro Marques]

James Wynn wrote (28-12-2010 16:59):
> 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?

No, the thread is about more than that and I was talking about the bit of 
Thomas's message to which you appended your comment. "The idea that astral 
travel uses mental maps rather than physical ones is a good one". Nothing 
there about bookshelves.