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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: Reading Suggestion
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:53:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Stefan Ram wrote:
> Don wrote:
>>Only a synopsis of SCHILD'S LADDER is known to me at this time.
>>At first blush, LADDER seems superficially similar to the
>>Suprahet scourge in Perry Rhodan:
>
>   *** SPOILER ALERT ***
>
>   Heads up, folks! If you're still planning to dive into "Schild's
>   Ladder," you might wanna pump the brakes here. The next paragraph's
>   a bit of a spoiler, and the one after that? It's a real doozy.
>
>   So, the kickoff of "Schild's Ladder" is off the hook, and the middle
>   part's kind of so-so. But the finale? Man, it left me hanging!
>
>   For starters, I'm not buying how they're painting this constant
>   cruising at 0.5c as no biggie. (Sure, it's theoretically possible,
>   but in practice? Get outta here!) But then it really jumps the
>   shark when they're just casually popping into this "other world"
>   and shooting the breeze with the locals, conveniently bumping
>   into a specific person. It's like the book starts off as hard
>   sci-fi but then takes a hard left into fantasyland. (Some dude
>   said it gave him "Gulliver's Travels" vibes.)
>
>   Well, some eggheads reckon we might be chillin' in a metastable
>   vacuum that could go sideways and flip to the real deal any second.
>   And if that goes down, it's curtains for us all before anyone
>   can even say "Cowabunga!" - Anyone who's spooked by that kind of
>   stuff oughta be tossing and turning when they catch wind of these
>   experiments in Nature . . .

Your metaphorical monologue makes it tempting.

    It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several
    modes of expression, as also in compound words, strange (or
    rare) words, and so forth. But the greatest thing by far is
    to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted
    by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good
    metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

    THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE
    <https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1974/1974-h/1974-h.htm>

A Poe project's paramount to me at present. My work in progress entails
uploading Poe's entire opus via audiobook.
    His satirical stories were recently heard - wherein Poe lampoons
London leaning literati to the hilt. It's easy to understand why
Sir Doyle, Griswald, and Frogpondian [1] fellow travelers hated Poe.

Note.

[1] It has been well said of the French orator, Dupin, that "he spoke,
    as nobody else, the language of every body;" and thus his manner
    seems to be exactly conversed in that of the Frogpondian Euphuists,
    who, on account of the familiar tone in which they lisp their outré
    phrases, may be said to speak, as every body, the language of nobody
    - that is to say, a language emphatically their own.

Danke,

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