posted December 13, 2004 08:41 PM         

I'm very interested about the dream book.'

And yes please post more....I'd love to order that book, is it a new book?

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*Formally known as NeoStar
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O space and time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass,
What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.*

posted December 14, 2004 01:34 AM         

Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905 when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but senstive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children, where time stands still. In yet another, time is a nightingale, sometime trapped by a bell jar...

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Here is an excerpt:

In the world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely. So too every moment that two friends stop becoming friends, every time that a family is broken because of money, every vicious remark in an argument between spouses, every opportunity denied because of a superior's jealousy, every promise not kept.

And just as all things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening happened a million times before. some few people in every town, in their dreams, are vaguely aware that all has occureed in the past. These are the people with unhappy lives, and they sense that their misjudments and wrond deeds and bad luck have all taken place in the previous loop of time. In the dead of night these cursed citizens wrestle with their bedsheets, unable to rest, stricken with the knowledge that they cannot change a single action, a single gesture. Their mistakes will be repeated precisely in this life as in the life before. And it is these double unfortunates who give the only sign that time is a circle. For in each town, late at night, the vacant streets and balconies fill up with their moans.

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The book was published in 1993 and is written by Alan Lightman. So far it's very interesting. Let me know if anyone gets it and reads it!

posted December 15, 2004 06:30 PM         

Nice of you to pop-in, how's things in Randall world?