Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:21:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: That Pete <that_pete-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: apropos fysis


Sidonia: It was all very interesting. There was a period when our ancestors
believed that they inhabited a world which revolved around the sun.
Sparkler: Can it be true?
Sidonia: Oh yes. They had been told that they lived upon a spherical planet,
moving through some kind of infinite space.
Sparkler: No!
Sidonia: That was there delusion. But it was the Age of Mouldwarp. According to
Plato, the whole earth seemed to have been reduced and rolled into a ball until
it was small enough to fit their theories.
Sparkler: But surely they must have known--or felt?
Sidonia: They could not have known. For them the sun was a very powerful god.
Of course we were all silent for a moment, after Plato had told us this, and
then he laughed.
			--Peter Ackroyd


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