Barry,
What an inspirational fable!
I am so pleased you prefaced it with the following remark:
> To sum up, it is my opinion that the human mind is not as delimited or
> delimiting as most of us habitually accept when we're not thinking about
> it. A fable:
Now I know that the outcome will not be so unhappy:
> Slowly the circle dispersed across the plane, leaving the dot alone,
> chilled, pale. No one believed the dot, that there could be another,
> "third" dimension somewhere "up". This dot never jumped again.
You and I know that one dark night, just before dawn, this dot (who
had never given up hope) finished drilling a hole in the plane. Came
the dawn, he hopped down and saw what all the other dots looked like
from underneath.......
Before returning to tell his friends, and risking another rebuff,
he exclaimed to himself, "Boy, this is what I call experience! I
wonder what I should do next."
Now, I'm really hopping!
Regards
-- "David W Blake" <DWBLAKE@tsp.eskom.co.za>David W Blake Chief Engineer Technology Strategy Division ESKOM P O Box 1091 JOHANNESBURG 2000 South Africa