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K.I.S.S. - Revisiting the Canticle

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

I’ve long held the theory that the great deposits of metals we mine to build our cities are actually found in places where massive cities of metal once stood, and that millions of years had returned them to where we find them now.
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  • Tom Watson

    2 years ago

    I love that theory Brendan - who knows it might be true. Lost civilizations - some evidence of course, but what if it's all just relatively recent...
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  • Tom Kissane

    2 years ago

    For some reason I was thinking about this book last month, trying to describe it to my wife at a Dunkin' Donuts. (Apparently, fundamentalist, as opposed to Catholic, schools did not make it standard fare, and she hadn't heard of it despite having read a lot more than I have.)

    Well, I told her I couldn't remember the details, but I thought she'd like it. We stepped out of the DD and there, on the standard-issue East Village card table, CFL was standing front and center. Bought it for a buck. I read the first chapter; Kelley will read it, I imagine, sometime well before the kids go to college.
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