NP but LAST AND FIRST MEN

[Mark Kohut]

Olaf Stapledon wrote a couple famous SF novels
before Tom was even born...but they have stayed
in print because they are good and still read, it seems.

I have wanted to read them but never have. I came across
a copy of them and have opened the one in the subject header.

I wanted to share this definition of "vision" from his intro
to the original American edition because I often write
of TRP's vision and ask myself if I could define vision
if challenged since I too know detailing what Pynchon "believes"
about real life things is a fool's game. But a vision is not that.

"But visions, if they are to be permanently helpful, must embody
the whole breadth and depth of experience. They must not be crude,
extravagant, lopsided. They must be conceived not only with originality
but with sanity, even if sanity has to take up a new orientation in
consequence
of the new vision."

But I only decided to write and send this because of a later paragraph from
him in his
earlier-written Preface. Will follow very soon.