Later in the book, the dialectic prologues converge with the story. At first these little stand-along snippets of dialogue reflect Herrin's character through his past or future, but generally unrelated to the events in the chapter. The first opens with a quote by Pythagoras: Man is the measure of all things. Can you see where this might be going? The three main human characters are Herrin Law the artist, Waden Jenks the politico and soon-to-be First Citizen (read: dictator), and Keye Lynn the creative ethicist, the three most brilliant students at University.Įxcept for the first, each chapter opens with a little dialectic interchange between Herrin and someone else. The planet is called Freedom, the main continent, Sartre, and the capitol, Kierkegaard. On a small, remote planet, a human colony was established. And a story about the dialectic run amok. Or maybe not, it's been a few years, and I just packed up all my notes from grad school.Īnyway, Wave Without a Shore is a sort of first not-quite-contact novel. He was always going on about defining reality with sketches of clouds (that would be the intangible concepts, or immaterial reality) and brick walls (that would be the operationalized definition for the purpose of collecting data to try to measure reality). I used to own it as a discrete novel, but I gave it away to a professor whose research methods seminar reminded me of the story.
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