Now this is pathetic. Not only didn't I know about
Michael Crichton's latest book, but apparently, the news that
"Timeline" will be made into a movie for release this year, escaped me too. Hahahaha! Pathetic fan. :) It's going to be directed by Richard Donner. I'm not sure if it's going to be one of the great Crichton adaptations. I hope it is. And it looks like "Prey" is in the works to become a movie too. Wow.
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Love this excerpt from "Timeline":
He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials - people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.
Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored. The modern world was compelling and new, and the past had no bearing on it. Studying history was as pointless as learning Morse code, or how to drive a horse-drawn wagon. And the medieval period - all those knights in clanking armor and ladies in gowns and pointy hats - was so obviously irrelevant as to be beneath consideration.
Yet the truth was that the modern world was invented in the Middle Ages. Everything from the legal system, to nation-states, to reliance on technology, to the concept of romantic love had first been established in medieval times. These stockbrokers owed the very notion of the market economy to the Middle Ages. And if they didn't know that, then they didn't know the basic facts of who they were. Why they did what they did. Where they had come from.
Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
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