[FRIAM] OK. That's funny.

Wed Aug 5 03:50:54 EDT 2020

only 99c a download? you meen a trial then 5dollars to download but 15 a
month for premium features and more inventory space right?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:56 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am unfamiliar with almost all your allusions with the exception of "El
> Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan" which I read in Spanish class many
> years ago.
>
> Are the rest of you readers familiar with NotP, etc.?
>
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 9:25 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> This discussion of alternate skinning and in particular the Mad Hatter's
>> Tea Party triggers:
>>
>> I am just now (re)visiting Robert Heinlein by reading his posthumous
>> "fork" of his classic Number of the Beast, Pursuit of the Pankera
>> <https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49241808-the-pursuit-of-the-pankera>.
>>   The PotP was apparently pulled together with funding from a Kickstarter
>> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612713154/robert-heinleins-unpublished-novel>!
>> In fact it is more likely that NotB is the "fork" since the PotP material
>> was apparently complete by 1977 and NOTB was published in 1980.  As
>> appropriate (maybe even somehow intended?) the NotB and PotP diverge about
>> 20% into the material which is armatured around the conceit of the
>> protaganist having invented a "continua" device capable of "sideslipping"
>> across the (6^6)^6 {\displaystyle (6^{6})^{6}(6^6jjjor ~10^27 members of
>> the multiverse (not 6^6^6 or ~10 followed by 1M 0s {\displaystyle
>> 6^{6^{6}}})
>>
>> It is suggested that this represents somehow the countable but huge
>> continua of possible worlds that the human imagination is capable of
>> creating, and *therefore* includes myriad variants on those described in
>> various bits of classic literature... including notable "worlds" such as
>> Barsoom, Oz, and the Red Queen's domain other-side of the looking glass.
>> A dual, perhaps, of Borges' "Library of Babel", related to his "Garden of
>> Forking Paths", each applying an allegorical treatment to the "many worlds"
>> interpretation of QM.  This also is nicely alluded to with Jasper Fforde's
>> protaganist Thursday Next <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_Next>
>> who is a "literary detective" pursuing crimes in the interstices of the
>> literary multiverse where all of the characters (and settings) from
>> literature live and go about "normal lives" while they are not busy
>> appearing in their various novels.
>>
>> I'm finding Heinlein's preachy characters and prose excruciatingly
>> painful...   something I had a hint of in my youth when he was inspiring me
>> toward his human-chauvanist (and confoundingly misogynistic, in spite of
>> some very inspired female protaganists) Libertarian views...    but I'm
>> slogging through it anyway,  a bit of a visit to my misspent youth and
>> perhaps some stubborn attempt to be sure I've read all of his published
>> works.  It is somewhat useful for me as I try to make sense of the current
>> (and all-time?) Right continuum (whackadoodle to centrist)...  a revisiting
>> to my own roots in such I suppose.    I am left to wonder if Heinlein in
>> his relative (or disturbed?) genius might tell entirely different stories
>> if he understood the (unintended/unexpected) consequences of the manifest
>> hubris of our human-chauvanist culture/industry/economy as it unfolded
>> toward the end of his life into the present?
>>
>> ramble,
>>
>>  - Steve
>>
>>
>> On 8/4/20 4:57 PM, cody dooderson wrote:
>>
>> Could one level be a tea party level? Maybe Glenn Beck could be the Mad
>> Hatter?
>>
>> Cody Smith
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:19 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could each "shot" be a penny given to the Biden campaign?
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> Nicholas Thompson
>>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>>> Clark University
>>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>>
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of jon zingale
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:46 PM
>>> To: friam at redfish.com
>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OK. That's funny.
>>>
>>> Nick, you have just outlined the dream. The hope was to sell these at 99
>>> cents per download. The market for such disposable distractions appears
>>> to
>>> be firmly established, and potentially profitable. Further, to pull a
>>> variant of a Moby, redirecting the profits to one campaign or another
>>> could
>>> potentially make a change.
>>>
>>>
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