From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 07:20:35 MDT
"Sean Kenny" <sean@irvken.free-online.co.uk> writes:
> Actually, my own personal Book of Revelations is Greg Egan's Diaspora
And I saw a great collision, and the wise did not know why it
happened. And the lizard spewed forth darkness and lightening,
destroying the believers and unbelievers, and poisoned the air
and waters with wormwood so that no flesh mayest remain.
The angels saw this, and their hearts were filled with
fear. They cried "But will this happen to us too? We must know
so that we can deliver ourselves!". So they built a great
forge, a forge larger than the spheres of heaven. And in this
forge they sought to make a doorway with which to escape. But
when the doorway appeared they found that it did not lead
anywhere.
The angels then spread their wings in a great diaspora to find
the answer. They sought answers from the stars, from the rocks
and from the seas. But when they found it, they did not at
first know what it was, for it was written in the smallest
grain. But in this grain was not just the revelation of the
coming doom but also a world, for each grain contains more
worlds than the sand on a beach contains grains of sand.
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