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[scottobear]

Listening to a Bob Dylan song called 'Desolation Row'.

At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Go out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do.

Inspired to listen by the little icon there... rereading 'The Watchmen'... it's a fine bit of stuff, and it's been about 4 years since I've last thumbed through... a lot of interesting currents run through it. The concept of time especially is an interesting one... not one I care to share. (All things have happened, and we're just viewing it from one perspective... fate is set... digging up a quote now) "Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet." I prefer to keep (even if it's an illusion) the concept of free will...and that different events have some real causality.

Fate's a funny thing. I can see some comfort in everything being preordained... but then what's the purpose? It'd be like living in a novel already written... interesting from the outside, but so impotent for the folks inside.

*ponderponderponder*