The bright grain of steel."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
>B. wrote:
>>
>> [Pretty amazing. Scan of the brief article below. Dr.
>> Gilbert Plass of Johns Hopkins talks about
>> 'greenhouse' effect a decade or too early? -B.]
>
>And by 1964 Philip Dick was writing:
>
>In the miserably high-number conapt building 492 on the outskirts of
>Marilyn Monroe, New Jersey, Richard Hnatt ate breakfast
>indifferently while, with something greater than indifference, he
>glanced over the morning homeopape's weather-syndrome readings of
>the previous day.
>
>The key glacier, Ol' Skintop, had retreated 4.62 Grables during the
>last twenty-four-hour period. And the temperature, at noon in New
>York, had exceeded the previous day's by 1.46 Wagners. In addition
>the humidity, as the oceans evaporated, had increased by 16
>Selkirks. So things were hotter and wetter; the great procession of
>nature clanked on, and toward what? Hnatt pushed the 'pape away, and
>picked up the mail which had been delivered before dawn... it had
>been some time since mailmen had crept out in daylight hours.
>
>The first bill which caught his eye was the apt's cooling pro-rated
>swindle; he owed Conapt 492 exactly ten and a half skins for the
>last month--a rise of three-fourths of a skin over April. Someday,
>he said to himself, it'll be so hot that _nothing_ will keep this
>place from melting; he recalled the day his l-p record collection
>had fused together in a lump, back around '04, due to a momentary
>failure of the building's cooling network. Now he owned iron oxide
>tapes; they did not melt. And at the same moment every parakeet and
>Venusian ming bird in the building had dropped dead. And his
>neighbor's turtle had been boiled dry. Of course this had been
>during the day and everyone - at least the men - had been at work.
>The wives, however, had huddled at the lowest subsurface level,
>thinking (he remembered Emily telling him this) that the fatal
>moment had at last arrived. And not a century from now but now. The
>Caltech predictions had been wrong... only of course they hadn't
>been; it had just been a broken power-lead from the N.Y. utility
>people. Robot workmen had quickly shown up and repaired it.
>
>- from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>
>Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net
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