From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 20:44:28 MDT
BTW, Dr Easton is a bit naughty in the following statement:
< Broderick does try to balance the enthusiasm with some recognition that
there are skeptics and that there are reasons to be skeptical, but he is
still distinctly breathless. "Progress!" he pants. "It’s on an exponential
rise! Tomorrow will be strange! Marvelous! Unpredictable! Wow!!" >
The words he ascribes to me as a direct quotation--and that's what quote
marks *mean*, damn it!--are his own invention. I did not use any of those
sentences or free-floating words in THE SPIKE. Indeed, the only time the
word `wow' appears, without exclamation marks, is in a quote from Eliezer...
Damien Broderick
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