(urth) Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe

[brunians at brunians.org]

Dreams don't take place in linear time.

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> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>How did Mary Shelly pick them out?
>
> I'm not sure if that was a rhetorical question or not, but anyway:
>
> Mary Shelley, famously, was inspired to write Frankenstein by a
> *dream* she had. At a villa on Lake (hint hint) Geneva. Dr Talos isn't
> saying events in his time influence events in ours, he's saying they
> influence our dreams.
>
>> What makes the ripples from the Frankenstein stone stand out from all
>> the rest?
>
> They don't, necessarily. Maybe we're all having dreams inspired by
> Urthian events, all the time. It's just that in this case the dream
> was recorded and that record  - somewhat miraculously - survived long
> enough for one of its instigators to identify it.
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