ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing

Jasper Fidget jasper.fidget at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 08:14:49 CDT 2007


Oh, it's the "real" world.  With a minor adjustment or two.  Much as a
mirror reflects a "real" world -- but whoever is looking into that mirror is
adding his or her own perspective to whatever they see.  Is History (or
Historology how about) any different?  Fiction certainly is not.

On 4/1/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yes...that sounds like the right upgrade of the obs.....different
> fictional worlds
> are MAJOR to ATD, IMHO........
> But there must be and THERE IS a "real" world.......in TRP's vision.....
>
> *Jasper <jasper.fidget at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 05:00 -0700, Mark Kohut wrote:
> > These are brilliant obs which I feel just on the verge of
> > "getting"...[smoaking in M & D]...
> > Yes, portals are everywhere...have we or the wiki "cataloged' them
> > all-----I'm checking the wiki....
> > and more relate to time than space,k it seems....but they do
> > co-relate...like co-consciousness?
> >
>
> Or to fictional worlds. They travel between parallel fictions, and
> between genres. They remind me of a novel Heinlein wrote called Number
> of the Beast about some people who raced around through time, space, and
> fictional worlds in their intelligent space-car Gay Deceiver. Or a
> novel called Silverlock by a dude named John Myers Myers. There are
> probably many examples. Point is, fictional worlds are just as real in
> AtD as the "real" world, which is what exactly?
>
>
>
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