![]() The sky overhead was perfectly clear, and ablaze with the familiar, friendly stars. On their way down to the valley, they have this exchange: ![]() They decide to slip away a few hours before the last permutations have been emitted, sneak down the mountain, and catch a flight out of the region before the project is revealed as a failure. Toward the end of the project, though, the Americans, recognizing the absurdity of the venture, begin to get nervous that these superstitious and primitive monks will blame the machines and their programmers for failing to bring about the end of the world. The monks figure, by recording every possible permutation, they will cast a wide net, and get the sacred names to boot, thus accelerating the ordinary procedure of history. According to their Tibetan belief, when all of the nine billion names of God have been discovered and then recorded within the sacred books, history will come to an end, because the natural world will have fulfilled its purpose of revealing all facets of God. ![]() ![]() Arthur Clarke’s 1952 sci-fi story, “The Nine Billion Names of God,” tells the story of two cynical Manhattan computer programmers in the early days of the industry, who were hired by Tibetan monks to write a program to spit out every possible permutation of a sequence of random letters. ![]()
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This certainly holds true for Paul Johnson, who mars what could have been a superbly written book of breathtaking scope, with points of view that aren't merely limited or blinkered, but downright crazed at times. ![]() ![]() Iggy, a child who once “built a great tower-in only an hour-with nothing but diapers and glue.” The structured rhymes and lively illustrations fit the architectural theme, and the text uses absorbing details of Iggy’s world to bring the tale to life. until a fateful field trip proves just how useful a master builder can be.Ī story told in verse, this is a book that shows the power of education and science. ![]() It looks as if Iggy will have to trade in his T-square for a box of crayons. ![]() But none are better at building than Iggy Peck, who once erected a life-size replica of the Great Sphinx on his front lawn! 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Ivory satin ribbon hanger is included to complete the ornament. ![]() Made with the pages of discarded and damaged vintage books no longer suitable for resale. Beautiful clear glass ornament filled with the dainty hand-cut and curled vintage strips of the novel by Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. ![]() ![]() Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe’s apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn every method of ending life and come to understand the necessity of what they do. In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) by professional reapers (“scythes”). ![]() Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in the first book in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology. And if there is some eternal world after this one, what fate awaits a taker of lives? I understand why there are scythes, and how important and how necessary the work is… but I often wonder why I had to be chosen. The ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. We have one very limited world, and although death has been defeated as completely as polio, people still must die. It’s not as if we can go somewhere else the disasters on the moon and Mars colonies proved that. All of that is behind us now, and yet a simple truth remains: People have to die. It’s hard for most of us to imagine a world so unsafe, with dangers lurking in every unseen, unplanned corner. ![]() Aging couldn’t be reversed, and there were accidents from which there was no return. There were invisible killers called “diseases” that broke the body down. Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. 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