https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Time-Lapsed_Man&feed=atom&action=history The Time-Lapsed Man - Revision history 2024-03-28T20:12:51Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.32.1 https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Time-Lapsed_Man&diff=9235&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 01:01, 19 March 2019 2019-03-19T01:01:18Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:01, 19 March 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5" >Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his profession feel &quot;one with the vastness of the ''nada''-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one Thorn's senses lapse into the past.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his profession feel &quot;one with the vastness of the ''nada''-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one Thorn's senses lapse into the past.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cf. and contrast &quot;Awareness of being, without object or subject Nirvana&quot; in Le Guin's &quot;Vaster than Empires and More Slow,&quot; especially in the original version of the story (''New Dimensions 1'' 1970), with her description of the experience of NAFAL space travel (Nearly As Fast As Light).[https://tinyurl.com/y5c53d38]  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cf. and contrast &quot;Awareness of being, without object or subject Nirvana&quot; in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ursula K. </ins>Le Guin's &quot;Vaster than Empires and More Slow,&quot; especially in the original version of the story (''New Dimensions 1'' 1970), with her description of the experience of NAFAL space travel (Nearly As Fast As Light).[https://tinyurl.com/y5c53d38]  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cited and briefly discussed (and highly recommended) in Stephen Baxter's &quot;[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cited and briefly discussed (and highly recommended) in Stephen Baxter's &quot;[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]].</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Time-Lapsed_Man&diff=9234&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 00:55, 19 March 2019 2019-03-19T00:55:41Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:55, 19 March 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brown, Eric, &quot;The Time-Lapsed Man.&quot;''' ''Interzone 24'' (Summer 1988). Collected ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.'' 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line[http://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781301172689/The_Time-Lapsed_Man.htm] as of 18 March 2019.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brown, Eric, &quot;The Time-Lapsed Man.&quot;''' ''Interzone 24'' (Summer 1988). Collected ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.'' 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line[http://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781301172689/The_Time-Lapsed_Man.htm] as of 18 March 2019.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his profession feel &quot;one with the vastness of the ''nada''-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one Thorn's senses lapse into the past.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his profession feel &quot;one with the vastness of the ''nada''-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one Thorn's senses lapse into the past.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6" >Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cited and briefly discussed (and highly recommended) in Stephen Baxter's &quot;[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cited and briefly discussed (and highly recommended) in Stephen Baxter's &quot;[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; 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color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT: Time-Lapsed Man}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT: Time-Lapsed Man}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Fiction]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Fiction]]</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Time-Lapsed_Man&diff=9233&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 00:54, 19 March 2019 2019-03-19T00:54:56Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:54, 19 March 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Brown, Eric, &quot;The Time-Lapsed Man.&quot; ''Interzone 24'' (Summer 1988). Collected ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.'' 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line[http://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781301172689/The_Time-Lapsed_Man.htm] as of 18 March 2019.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>Brown, Eric, &quot;The Time-Lapsed Man.&quot;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>''Interzone 24'' (Summer 1988). Collected ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.'' 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line[http://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781301172689/The_Time-Lapsed_Man.htm] as of 18 March 2019.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">craft </del>feel &quot;one with the vastness of the nada-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his </del>senses lapse into the past.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">profession </ins>feel &quot;one with the vastness of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>nada<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thorn's </ins>senses lapse into the past.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cf. and contrast &quot;Awareness of being, without object or subject Nirvana&quot; in Le Guin's &quot;Vaster than Empires and More Slow,&quot; especially in the original version of the story (''New Dimensions 1'' 1970), with her description of the experience of NAFAL space travel (Nearly As Fast As Light).[https://tinyurl.com/y5c53d38]  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Cf. and contrast &quot;Awareness of being, without object or subject Nirvana&quot; in Le Guin's &quot;Vaster than Empires and More Slow,&quot; especially in the original version of the story (''New Dimensions 1'' 1970), with her description of the experience of NAFAL space travel (Nearly As Fast As Light).[https://tinyurl.com/y5c53d38]  </div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Time-Lapsed_Man&diff=9232&oldid=prev Erlichrd: Created page with "Brown, Eric, "The Time-Lapsed Man." ''Interzone 24'' (Summer 1988). Collected ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.'' 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line..." 2019-03-19T00:53:13Z <p>Created page with &quot;Brown, Eric, &quot;The Time-Lapsed Man.&quot; &#039;&#039;Interzone 24&#039;&#039; (Summer 1988). Collected &#039;&#039;The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.&#039;&#039; 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Brown, Eric, &quot;The Time-Lapsed Man.&quot; ''Interzone 24'' (Summer 1988). Collected ''The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories.'' 1990. Rpt. New York: Tor, 1990. Text available on line[http://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781301172689/The_Time-Lapsed_Man.htm] as of 18 March 2019. <br /> <br /> During flux, traveling as he &quot;mind-pushed his boat between the stars,&quot; Thorn and others of his craft feel &quot;one with the vastness of the nada-continuum. [***] Some Enginemen he knew, in fact the majority of those from the East, subscribed to the belief that in flux they were granted a foretaste of Nirvana. Thorn’s Western pragmatism denied him this explanation. He favoured a more psychological rationale – though in the immediate period following flux he found it difficult to define exactly a materialistic basis for the ecstasy he had experienced.&quot; The down-side, as it develops in the story, is that after fifty shifts in flux, one by one his senses lapse into the past. <br /> <br /> Cf. and contrast &quot;Awareness of being, without object or subject Nirvana&quot; in Le Guin's &quot;Vaster than Empires and More Slow,&quot; especially in the original version of the story (''New Dimensions 1'' 1970), with her description of the experience of NAFAL space travel (Nearly As Fast As Light).[https://tinyurl.com/y5c53d38] <br /> <br /> Cited and briefly discussed (and highly recommended) in Stephen Baxter's &quot;[[The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction]].<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT: Time-Lapsed Man}}<br /> [[Category: Fiction]]</div> Erlichrd