Unstuck in time...Alternate Reality

Mar 5, 2011

by jmasseysr
posted in SF Signal

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Ray Bradbury's haunting tale [reminiscent of "Sailing to Byzantium] is a precursor for altered states of reality & the question of what it means to exist in muliple dimensional planes. Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" is yet another fine example for the power of slipping and becoming "un-stuck in time"

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Scotman April 18, 2011

Thanks for this quick tip!

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