Re: CHAT: "the future," sci-fi, Quecha (Le Guin)
| From: | Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 2:42 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
> So why *do* we see "what happened before now" as abaft us, and not
> before us?
We didn't always think so. Before = previous to now; before = in front
of.
Perhaps it happened with all those poets likening time to an arrow.
They're all bloody idiots (or clean idiots, or dirty but not bloody
idiots. The point is, they are, or were, idiots).
Laimes,
Wright.