On 26 Aug 1995, David W Blake wrote:
> 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:
[snip]
> 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."
Thanks, David, for extending the story. I guess you also know that the dot
finally decided to become a magician. By jumping up and over a bit, or
dropping through the hole it had drilled and coming up through another
one, the dot could "disappear" and "reappear" magically to the other dots!
After amassing a certain amount of notoriety and some fame (along with
caustic dismissal by a few), the dot then began to spend time with some of
the younger dots who thought that the whole thing was a trip. They began
to experiment with tuning out, turning around, and hopping up to their
parent's dismay and consternation. The last I heard of the dot was that
it had been given an ultimatum by the dot council demanding that it had to
stop corrupting the youth of the society or it would be subject to
banishment. It decided, I hear, to go into seclusion with a few of its
closest students and work on becoming a sphere.
Will wonders never cease??
-- Tobin Quereau quereau@austin.cc.tx.us