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Since US-based explorers (unexplorers?) seem to be getting a different version of RawSharkTexts.com than everyone else, I'm going to post some of the new stuff put up there. First - does anyone remember any indication in the novel as to when it was set? I ask because on the other version of the website is this Unspace Exploration Committee Temporary Access card for a E. Sanderson, issued by a Dr. Trey Fidorous, Chairman of Registration Committee. Its date of expiration is Oct. 10 1930.
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Just a few examples of the novel not being set in 1930: - Videotape of the light bulb codes, a technology first developed in the 1950s. - The Melissa Virus (1999) - pg.96 of the UK hard cover, "computer virus mosquito in amber" on a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk (1970s) - The hand held tape recorders Sanderson uses for his conceptual loops - Superstring Theory So why have a temporary access card with an expiration date in the past? Must be very temporary access... :wink:
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also, some of the books and films that are referenced in the novel are pretty recent, e.g., fight club, toy story, etc. here is the wiki link to October 10...
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\"benedict wrote:here is the wiki link to October 10... Hmm. . . Adolf Engler died on Oct 10, 1930. Plant?
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maybe...
also interesting is the way the date is formatted as Oct 10 1930. as far as i know, only a few countries (including the US) use this format. in the UK (and most other countries), the date on the Temporary Access Card would have been typed in as 10 Oct 1930.
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interesting
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hi! this is my first post on the forum, obsessed TRST fan since... sunday? i'm not online very often, but believe me my copy of the book (uk incomplete undex version) is penciled all over already, and this forum has helped tons. that said... harold pinter! born on that date. according to wikipedia: Quote:Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts among ambivalent characters fighting for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own remembered versions of the past ('Biobibliographical Notes'). Stylistically, they are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, provocative imagery, witty dialogue, ambiguity, irony, and menace ('Biobibliographical Notes'). Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual human identity oppressed by social forces, the power of language, and vicissitudes of memory. ring a bell?
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Nice find, could be.
i've read a couple of Pinter's plays. Didn't think of him in relation to TRST though.
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