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Waiting for the Iron Age [MultiFormat]
eBook by David Langford
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  The Wandering Jew himself looks back reminiscently from an inconceivably remote future. "Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?"
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Tales of the Wandering Jew, ed. Brian Stableford, 1991
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [41 KB], eReader (PDB) [20 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [6 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [59 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [77 KB], hiebook (KML) [24 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [33 KB], iSilo (PDB) [5 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [7 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [35 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [13 KB]
Words: 1689
Reading time: 4-6 min.
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As I passed through the twentieth century I remember being struck by a remark of the physicist who must have been my second most famous compatriot, if I might be said to have compatriots. "God is subtle, but he is not malicious." In fact Einstein said it in German and offered an informal American translation which was much less often quoted: "God is slick, but he ain't mean." I dispute this.
Memory is a terrible custodian. The scene which ought to dominate all my thinking has long vanished, lost in accretions of other narratives, scholarly reinterpretation, analysis of mythic significance. I was there, or think I was there, but who am I against so many? Far more pungent is the memory of one perfect meal in a monastery of about the fourteenth century; it was only black bread and leeks in oil, but it lingers. Or is this another shuffled recollection? Old stone passages are overlaid in my mind with their own later ruins, and then with dramatic recreations more vivid than the originals, if there were originals....
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