All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 18.0 Coriolis Landing Fall, Revisited
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 18.0 Coriolis Landing Fall, Revisited, is now posted.
Noetic File 18.0: Coriolis Landing Fall, Revisited
This is the famous conflagration scene, which has been imitated countless times, most notably by Vertumnia in the Andros Agonistes.
These passages are also the basis of the scholarly theory that the Narrator was addressing Isolationists from Mother Earth in his recitation, Luddites, Amish, or Antimachinists, since no colonist nor child of a colonist could possibly have never seen an open flame, nor need to have it described to him.
The influence of Mark Twain, pre-Diaspora philosopher, raconteur, and text-composer, can be seen in the passage where the narrator steels himself for an heroic deed, namely, the idea that courage is the mastery, not the absence, of fear.