MDDM Ch. 61

[Tim Strzechowski]

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor"

>Dixon's extemporising on Capt. Shelby's "analogy between the Human Body and
>the Planet Earth". He's visualising the human body's outer and inner
>"surfaces" transformed into a toroid, which for some reason brings computer
>animation to my mind.

>Dixon's comment bridges between Shelby's analogy and Stig's tale of the
hole
>at the North Pole, and then into the Hollow Earth stuff.


What I love about this entire exchange, as well, is the sense of its
stemming from a whole LSD- or maijuana-induced conversation between two
people awed at the prospect of having a "little universe" within your
fingernail, a la Donald Sutherland and Tom Hulce in _Animal House_.  Of
course, the whole concept is dealt with more seriously in Carl Sagan's _The
Dragons of Eden_.

Tim