Birth/Death Pulse
2008 05 02
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I've been re-reading Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delaney. I first read it when I was about 18 or 19, and found it recently on a bargain table in a second-hand "stuff" shop for $2.
I remembered nothing of the book (so far), except the name of one of the lead characters, and how openly it seemed to deal with homosexuality. I don't know yet if my memories will be borne up by current experience, but we'll see.
What did cross my eye today was the term "birth/death pulse" in the first real chapter of the book, which refers to the fact that at any given moment in the universe millions of people are born and millions die. I think of that sometimes, of the fact that on this earth at any given point of time, a person is born; one dies; one is making love; one sleeping; one eating; one working; one at rest; one reads; one laughs; one cries; one is hated; and one loves.
On the infinite earth infinite things are possible, infinite things happen.