From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 13:29:58 MDT
Dear Extropes,
I discovered these words this evening, looking for something else.
Glorious. It's a Rainbow Cadenza Story Symphony! Amara
"... the Water Genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Streams of Story,
and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the
magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into
the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand
and one different currents, each one a different color, weaving in and
out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity;
and [the Water Genie] explained that these were the Streams of Story,
that each colored strand represented and contained a single tale.
Different parts of Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as
all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in
the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the
Streams of Story was in the fact the biggest library in the universe.
And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained
the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join
up with other stories and so become yet other stories ..."
Salman Rushdie, _Haroun and the Sea of Stories_, (London, 1990),
pp. 71-72.
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