Theitical Library
Created | Updated Jul 6, 2003
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You say "Is it a spiritual question that you are searching?". He blows a perfect smoke ring straight up into the air, put out his cigarette on the ashtray. He raises from his chair, and ask you to follow. He walks into the alley going left and taking the first entry on the right. As you follow you see him typing on the panel next to a door somewhat further into the alley. All doors have such panel here, all doors are closed. "Come into the theitical room of my library then" he says. You look around and see all the walls covered by books. The titles near the ceiling show:
Atheism
Antism
Antiism
Bahá'í
Buddhism
Chaoticism
Christianity
Chronism
Communism
Dualism
Energism
Futurism
Hinduism
Gooism
Informatism
Islam
Judaism
Kinetism
Kapitalism
Mathematism
Mormonism
Nihilism
Paganism
Paradoxism
Quantism
Sikhism
Socialism
Voganism
He says "Choose again".
You look puzzeled as he replies "I have studyed the whole lot, I found all posible answers I could get, they lack the question tough".
You say "Quite impressive, however not what I had in mind". "A bit more social then?"
He walks out of the room and opens another door. You follow inside and as you pass the door you nearly tumble over as the gravity increases. You are outside again somewhere.
The sky is dark, a mild wind blows over some dunes in the distance you see a dam rising into the sky. Behind you lays a small house. As you are looking at the house you see the same door as you have just passed, closed. The morning glooms in the East, you see reflections in the eastern sky. "Where are we?" you ask him. He aswers "Home, a planet near Upsilon Andromeda as that is how you earthlings call our sun". "This is where I live" he says.
Two kids come running over the grass chasing each other with plastic bottles filled with water. "Hi dad" says the oldest, a girl "Look what mam gave us". She goes chasing her little brother again, who has hidden himself behind a bamboo stick. You laugh at him as he suddenly disappears. You look at Nephew Who as you see him grin. "That is just as I have taught him", he says "Deny that you are there hard enough and you are gone".
He walks to the door again, opens it and wait for you to return first. "Perhaps you see more in a philosopical question?" you ask him. "I would like to" he sighs, "But even then I first have to solve a few problems".
Editorial I need to add the following links
for "Choose again".
{quote from "The Hyperion Cantos" Dan Simmons}
http://www.erinyes.org/simmons and / or
http://parnham.members.beeb.net/Books/Novels/hyperion.htm
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You say "Is it a spiritual question that you are searching?". He blows a perfect smoke ring straight up into the air, put out his cigarette on the ashtray. He raises from his chair, and ask you to follow. He walks into the alley going left and taking the first entry on the right. As you follow you see him typing on the panel next to a door somewhat further into the alley. All doors have such panel here, all doors are closed. "Come into the theitical room of my library then" he says. You look around and see all the walls covered by books. The titles near the ceiling show:
Atheism
Antism
Antiism
Bahá'í
Buddhism
Chaoticism
Christianity
Chronism
Communism
Dualism
Energism
Futurism
Hinduism
Gooism
Informatism
Islam
Judaism
Kinetism
Kapitalism
Mathematism
Mormonism
Nihilism
Paganism
Paradoxism
Quantism
Sikhism
Socialism
Voganism
He says "Choose again".
You look puzzeled as he replies "I have studyed the whole lot, I found all posible answers I could get, they lack the question tough".
You say "Quite impressive, however not what I had in mind". "A bit more social then?"
He walks out of the room and opens another door. You follow inside and as you pass the door you nearly tumble over as the gravity increases. You are outside again somewhere.
The sky is dark, a mild wind blows over some dunes in the distance you see a dam rising into the sky. Behind you lays a small house. As you are looking at the house you see the same door as you have just passed, closed. The morning glooms in the East, you see reflections in the eastern sky. "Where are we?" you ask him. He aswers "Home, a planet near Upsilon Andromeda as that is how you earthlings call our sun". "This is where I live" he says.
Two kids come running over the grass chasing each other with plastic bottles filled with water. "Hi dad" says the oldest, a girl "Look what mam gave us". She goes chasing her little brother again, who has hidden himself behind a bamboo stick. You laugh at him as he suddenly disappears. You look at Nephew Who as you see him grin. "That is just as I have taught him", he says "Deny that you are there hard enough and you are gone".
He walks to the door again, opens it and wait for you to return first. "Perhaps you see more in a philosopical question?" you ask him. "I would like to" he sighs, "But even then I first have to solve a few problems".
Editorial I need to add the following links
for "Choose again".
{quote from "The Hyperion Cantos" Dan Simmons}
http://www.erinyes.org/simmons and / or
http://parnham.members.beeb.net/Books/Novels/hyperion.htm
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