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   From: morpheal@sympatico.ca   
      
   Sylvia Else wrote:   
      
   > Society is hard on us geniuses. I wouldn't want to inflict it on yet   
   > another person.   
      
   I'm not "society". A bit more of an outsider than I seem to be around   
   here, actually. In some ways. So I am definitely gentle with a genius.   
   Genius, in a woman, arouses me.   
      
   I saw a "time cannon" in a dream. A massive, almost unimaginable, shaft   
   in the rock, and equipment to generate the field embedded in the walls.   
   It might not look like that at all. After all it was only in a dream.   
      
   I wish you would reconsider.   
      
   Society desparately needs geniuses.   
      
   I would love to have a child who would invent the first practical   
   interstellar "engine" to convey human beings through   
   five dimensional space-time matrices along vectors that explore   
   "many-worlds". Once you know that closed temporal loops really   
   do occur, you know that the field necessary to convey that type   
   of vessel is possible. It's such a romantic metaphor. Or a child   
   who would find the secret of how the programs are stored for   
   inheritence in organisms, not simply the bio-mechanical blueprints   
   and the wiring diagrams. Another metaphor. A child that would   
   amaze me by solving the fundamental problems of the universe and   
   humanity's survival in it. I am not a scientist, or a mathematician.   
      
   Do you have any idea how rarely I have said I would love to have   
   a child ?  I am one of the most reluctant of men in that regard.   
      
   As to great paradigm changing discoveries that change the world, I am   
   probably being far too romantic.   
      
   Perhaps we could simply enjoy a little too much good red wine, or white   
   wine if you prefer, and let nature take its course ?  There is something   
   about the taste of wine stained lips that is also appealing.   
      
   R.M.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)