（外文电子版资料）Robinson, Spider - And Subsequent Construction.pdf

-- and Subsequent Construction (v1.1) Spider Robinson God gets away with things no one else could. Want proof? The greatest comedians of the last century, the ones who lasted longest commercially and physically, were named hope (who always looked young), burns (who always looked old), and miltin b[oy/g]irl (remembered for his drag routines). Then there were skel[e]ton, who slumped when he got tired; kay, who was absurdly agreeable; and Cid Caesar, who returned from the dead when he slowed down, slimmed down, and got control of his ego. The only woman one can call to mind from that generation was named ball, whom they loved loose, see?; enough said there. Not many would accept irony that heavy-handed from an author ... yet the twentieth century swallowed it from God without comment, laughing their heads off. Today, in 2010, Im the only one who seems to have noticed. Remember that: it may help you with what follows. Im a mathematician by training, and Ive been a relativist. Ive logged trips to six different star systems. I pray not to a god, but to the Nameless; and I dont try to send my prayers anywhere -- I just try to be them. I remember well the prayer I was being that night as I drove from home to my lab ... Thank you, Nameless! For all my life, the statement [(good luck) (bad luck)] has tended to obtain -- consistently enough to compensate for my basic tragedy: having been born a supergenius. Want proof? The foster parents who have always sworn they picked their little Iris on the basis of my toothless smile happened to be a NASA image specialist and a chaoticist: experts in, respectively, the universes surface appearance and its underlying causes. They tutored me at home until I passed their competence at age ten and was admitted to UCLA. Mom was a Buddhist