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Well, I was a massive reader of sci-fi literature growing up and Canticle for Leibowitz was a work that I read multiple times.

And, well, we are making sci-fi reality with things like wireless internet and other 'futuristic' advances.

But, I fear that the doom-literature like Canticle for Leibowitz are becoming ever more possible. This is sci-fi that I don't want anyone to go through.

And, as for being able to accept die-off/such, as a parent this is a nightmare scenario.  It is possible, but it is one that I am fighting to maintain as 'scenario' rather than reality.

In any event, thank you for the reminder. Somewhere in my attic are multiple books meriting re-reads.

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by a siegel (siegeadATgmailIGNORETHISdotPLEASEcom) on Mon Sep 24th, 2007 at 10:29:58 AM EST
And, as for being able to accept die-off/such, as a parent this is a nightmare scenario.  It is possible, but it is one that I am fighting to maintain as 'scenario' rather than reality.

Yes.
You have to love someone--then it becomes an unacceptable scenario, and worthy of your very best efforts to prevent--rather like the feelings of an Iraqi parent struggling to save his child from cholera--or Blackwater.

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by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Mon Sep 24th, 2007 at 04:40:35 PM EST
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