AtDTDA: (8) 226 Renfrew and Werfner

Monte Davis monte.davis at bms.com
Wed May 9 14:31:51 CDT 2007



Monte Davis wrote:

> I think that for all AtD's apparatus of twists in time, we're being 
> told six ways from Sunday not to get all misty-wistful about paths not 
> taken -- not least because they may be "not really different at all."

Further in this vein, 242:

" Next to him Miles Blundell gazed carefully at various dial-faces while 
reciting in a sort of torpid rapture, 'The Italian number that looks 
like a zero, is the same as our own American 'zero.' The one that looks 
like a one, is 'one.' The one that looks like a two--' "

Two different worlds
We live in two different worlds..
(Frisch/Wayne, 1956)
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