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The story was a nice forerunner to Silverberg’s “Hawksbill Station.”
But we are mortal men. And we have free will. The fixed-time concept need not, logically,
produce fatalism; after all, Herries, man’s will is itself one of the links in teh
causal chain. I suspect that this irrational fatalism is an important reason why
twentieth-century civilization is approaching suicide. If we think we know our future is
unchangeable, if our every action is foreordained, if we are doomed already, what’s the
use of trying? Why go through all the pain of thought, of seeking an answer and
struggling to make others accept it? But if we really believed in ourselves, we woiuld
look for a solution, and find one.
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