Visiting Laurinda Ashcroft

How will people greet each other in the future? See Angels And Service. In Laurinda's period of the Genesis future history, people bow briefly over bridged fingers - not an Anglo-Saxon gesture.

In Part One, V, Laurinda quotes what we recognize as Shakespeare and explains that she reads a lot. Fictional characters redeem her humanness which she might otherwise have lost while interfacing with Terra Central.

Characters are listed:

Hamlet;
Anne Elliot;
Wilkins Micawber;
Vidal Benzaguen.

I thought that Vidal would turn out to be a future fictional character. However, googling indicates that he is a Rudyard Kipling character. I found a link to a text although I know that such links do not work for all blog readers.

Finally (for tonight):

"Chairs shaped themselves to bodies with fluid, unnoticed sensuality." (p. 39)

More Future Furniture.