Re: As an inveterate waster of time,

Charles Packer wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

William Hyde wrote:

I read youtube comments now and again.
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"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac
Asimov."
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That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A
doing there?

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Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
Enlightenment?
That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
science works and not his SF.
--scott

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So what has Lincoln got to do with it?

"Hanging Lincoln" [1] is an visual phenomenon. LINCOLN IN DALIVISION [2]
popularizes it.
    It was recently my pleasure to indoctrinate a female artist half my
age into Dali's Magic Realism [3]. Although as a child Dali's art scared
her, as an adult artist, he now inspires her (thanks to me).

Open question: Is "Hanging Lincoln" more captivating than visual vixen
"Lenna" [4]?

[1] <https://michaelbach.de/ot/fcs-mosaic/>
[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_Dalivision>
[3] <http://tendreams.org/magic4.htm>
[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna>

ObSF:

(repost of an earlier article)

    "Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true!"

    "Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life."

    "To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
    For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,"

Suppose God delivers the afterlife you crave. For instance, if you don't
believe in an afterlife, then your afterlife is nihility itself. You get
nonexistence because you want it.
    An afterlife qualifies as posthuman on a most personal level. All of
which brings us to _babylon sisters and other posthumans_ (di filippo).
Or, more specifically, to a short story in the di filippo collection
called "a short course in art appreciation."
    In the story, a peptidergic pill induces a physiological, perceptual
change in users. They experience a different "perceptiverse" based upon
the pill ingested. A Dali pill delivers a Dali environment. A Vermeer
pill provides a Vermeer perceptiverse, and so on. As art aficionado
Alena enthuses:

    "By taking this new neurotropin we'll be enabled to see not
    /like/ Rembrandt, but as if /inhabiting/ Rembrandt's canvases!"

There's a hitch, of course. A hitch to provide story tension.

Danke,

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