More on that dust-jacket
Sojourner
sojourner at vt.edu
Wed Jul 16 15:28:01 CDT 1997
At 02:53 PM 7/15/97 -0700, Michael McAulay wrote:
>Vaska [vaska at geocities.com] writes:
>
>You may be onto something real here. In the sense of deliberate and
>carefully set up by our author himself.
>
>In which case, I'll take up the matter with Mr. P. in person, once we
>are both the other side of the really Big Divide, and ask him how come S
>is "natural" and X is "man-made." Many things natural display that X
>structure and/or formation, no?
>
>And LBernier at tribune.com adds:
>
>Yes, a good example of angles in nature, might be a tree, which can be
>broken down into a series of Y's or V's - IMHO, Nature is seldom curvy,
>unless it's been exposed to forces such as water or wind, which will,
>over time, smooth out the angles.
>
>To which I reply:
>
>Please have a gander at a topographical map or two. Remember that we
>are talking about terrain here. For E-Z reference, I found a nice
>example at:
>
>http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/united_states/Carmelby
>theSea_Ca83.jpg
>
>If this doesn't convince you (!) then refer to the text. For instance,
>pp. 544-545.
>
>========
>Mike McAulay
>Sr. Engineer
>3DO
>
>
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