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Not just the bottle of gin or wine, but the bottle in its older sense of container in

general, t o (150).
Where is that wonderful, big, long, hard , [B]ut how do you get more than one
thing, e, that the Ape Man stomachful and one handful home? [ ...]
first bashed somebody with in the movie Io . A recipient.
and then, grunting with ecstacy at having
achieved the first proper murder, flung up The first cultural device was probably a
recipient ...Many theorizers feel that h
into the sky, and whirling there it became a
~ Ie c. ~ .o s J a\/
space ship t t;; co, ".l gathered
s s and produce at the products and some kind of sling or net
end of the movie a lovely fetus, a boy of carrier .
course, drifting in the Milky Way " o
o ·x So says Elizabeth Fisher in Women's
c. ? I don't know. I don't even care. I'm Creation.But no, this cannot be (150).
not telling that story.

, [L]ong before the useful knife and ax; right along with the
indispensable whacker, grinder, and digger-[ ...]- i ~ e
e o e~ e g a , e m d the tool that
r· gs energy horn . It makes sense to me ( 151).

So long as culture was explained as originating from and


elaborating upon the use of long, hard objects for sticking, bashing,
and killing, v
. (151).

, I differ with all of this. I would go so far as to say that the natural,
o ~ o o e b t l. , a bag.
A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A
novel is a medicine bundle,
r t _rand to l (153).
, If[ ...] one avoids the linear, progressive, Time's-(killing)-arrow mode
of the Techno-Heroic, and o , t:. <"
L er n i
Still there are seeds one pleasant side effect is that science fiction can be seen as a far

' to be gathered, and

st
t..
(154).
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less rigid, narrow field, not necessarily Promethean or apocalyptic
at all, and in fact
(153-54).
t I ·- Ia

, It is a range reali , but it is a rangereali (154).

Nathaniel A Rivers, 2020

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