On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:51:22 -0400 (EDT), John Klein <zarkon at illrepute.org> wrote: > @> Because our world isn't a circle on a wheel. We are building a > better > @> world for the future. > > I dunno if you're living in the same world I am. > > Sorry to be a downer, but the future is that everyone will die and > entropy > will eventually succeed in dissociating every fundamental particle in the > universe from every other fundamental particle. Is that the story he's trying to tell? That nothing matters in the end? If so, then let him do so. That might be interesting in a short work, but not in an endless series. When I read a book about heroes fighting against oppression, I want to believe something was accomplished at the end. They don't have to live happily ever after - but I don't want the Wheel of Time to make the heroes irrelevant. There are too many fun books to read.