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... experience , such narratives have the social function of accustoming their readers to rapid innovation , of preparing our conscious- ness and our habits for the otherwise demoralizing impact of change itself . They train our organisms ...
... experience , such narratives have the social function of accustoming their readers to rapid innovation , of preparing our conscious- ness and our habits for the otherwise demoralizing impact of change itself . They train our organisms ...
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... experience of March , 1974 , about which he commented so often , he also fell into a world strange to us . To him the experience was so powerful that he spent the remainder of his life trying to erect a logical system that would explain ...
... experience of March , 1974 , about which he commented so often , he also fell into a world strange to us . To him the experience was so powerful that he spent the remainder of his life trying to erect a logical system that would explain ...
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... experiences : " To - day the outstanding object of experience is the contemporary world - crisis . If he would fulfill his function he must assimilate aspects of this , so that he may present the civilized reaction to it , either by ...
... experiences : " To - day the outstanding object of experience is the contemporary world - crisis . If he would fulfill his function he must assimilate aspects of this , so that he may present the civilized reaction to it , either by ...
Contents
SF in Mass Culture | 38 |
George Slusser Heinleins Perpetual Motion Fur Farm | 51 |
John Dean The Uses of Wilderness in American | 68 |
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