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- Subject: Re: 2001 - the last chapter (+)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 09:54:38 GMT
- Organization: University of Birmingham
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- In article <C15IEF.HHM@newcastle.ac.uk>, Richard.Dalton@newcastle.ac.uk (Richard Dalton) writes:
- >> I reread the book a few weeks ago and am still a little puzzled about
- >>the significance of the last chapter wrt. the rest of the book. I do not
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- > You should try reading the third book in the trilogy, 2061. This helps to
- > explain what all that 'Bowman as a baby in a white room' stuff was all about.
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- I was not refering to that, but to the last chapter of the book where we
- follow the 'anthropologists' (probably anappropriate) in their studies of
- 'primitive civilaisations'. I cannot see how it fits in with the rest of
- the book. It seems in contradiction with the ideas of the "star-" guiding
- forces.
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- -Andrew-
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