Beginnings And Endings

[sinjun]

It’s like a huge circle, that’s what they say. No end, and no beginning, just a continuous line, feeding into itself. But it’s also a never ending series of beginnings and endings that meld into each other, one after the other after the other. Hellos and goodbyes. See you later. How far in the future is later? I read recently, in the books by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, a phrase that caught my attention. “Until soon.”

How wishful, how sweet and gentle that is. It makes parting all the richer, with it’s promise of a return before there’s time to miss the person leaving. Until soon. Until we meet again. And it will be soon. Not soon enough, never soon enough. But soon.

I would love a job on Dutiful Passage if only I could get one. This is one set of people who have their heads screwed on straight.

Until soon.

Comments

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[courtly.livejournal.com]

Good stuff...

Yeah, the AI is fairly workable. But the drones also have advanced field effectors for complete field manipulation. (magnetic, force, etc).

All KINDS of neat stuff. Toys. :)

As my favourite RPG says: at this tech.level, military and medicine boil down to "poof you're dead... poof you're healed".

[wibbble]

Sounds lke Clark's Sufficiently Advanced Technology to me. :o)

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[courtly.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

You know the corollary to that law?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo".

[wibbble]

I prefer 'Any technology which can be distinguished from magic is insufficiently advanced', myself. ;o)