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From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 30 Apr 1996 07:26:38 -0700
From: "C. Jason Smith" 
Subject: Re: John Fowles and Schrodinger's Cat (fwd)
It occured to me after I had written Tom privately that this subject
may be of interest to some of you.  The "flaw" which I mention
below was
from trying against all good sesne to "prove" that the
multiple endings to
TFLW were the result of a single particle (the author) who travels back
in time through the text to strike Sarah Wodruff's womb at the moment
of
conception of the child Lalage (an experience refered to as producing
"nuclear guilt" in Charles), and thereby producing two
universes.  One
has a baby, one does not.  Simple.  But a much too narrow focus for all
the mess I got into with it.  References in Fowles' texts lead to the
depths
of Lewis Carroll's lesser known works and Martin Gardner's _The
Annotated 
Alice_.  Gardner also is the author of _The Ambidextrous Universe_
(qtd.
in Fowles' text) and other pop-science works.  (Please excuse my
typing--I am at a stand-up terminal and in a hurry).  So if anyone else
would like to jump on this discussion it is open.
Jason.
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:43:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: C. Jason Smith 
To: TOM 
Subject: Re: John Fowles and Schrodinger's Cat
Yes, as a matter of fact I can help you.  Though at the moment the
article is in "serious"revision due to a problem in focus
which is the
result of working on one paper for several years.  But I'd be happy to
drop the abstract (or, the entire paper if I can figure out how todo
it)
to you.  Or, a better option might be to discuss the ideas in the paper
through E-mail.  Are you interested in anything in particular?  And by
the way, I may be presenting this paper at SLS in Atlanta with a whole
panel on Fowles and Science (if, of course, the panel is accepted).
Other topicson the panel include Cultural Geography, Pre-freudian
psych,
and (of course) Darwin.  Drop me a note to let me know how we should
proceeed (whatever is best for you).  Jason
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, TOM wrote:
> Can anyone help me find an article by Jason Smith from the
UNiversity of
> Arkansas. It mixes John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's
Woman with
> quantum mechanics. It was mentioned in discussions on this bulletin
board in
> September 1995. I'm working on the scientific and the
anti-scientific in Fowles so I'd be very interested to know more about
Jason Smith's ideas on the subject.
> Tom Hoy
> La Trobe University
>
> engtph@lure.latrobe.edu.au
>
>
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Date: 30 Apr 1996 10:34:21 -0700
From: Robert Maxwell Young 
Subject: _Science as Culture_ No. 24 has appeared
SCIENCE AS CULTURE
Volume 5, Part 3 (No. 24)
has appeared in the US and will soon elsewhere.
CONTENTS
'Compensatory Ethics for the Human Genome Project'
byDirk Stemerding and Jaap Jelsma
'Dacron Polyester: The Fall from Grace of a Miracle Fabric'
by Stephen DeMeo
'Vannevar Bush: An Engineer Builds a Book'
by Larry Owens
'AIDS Science: Killing More than Time'
by John Nguyet Erni
'Antarctic Interfaces: Science, Human Subjectivity,
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Slavoj Zizek
'Naming the Heavens'
Scott Montgomery
'Policing expertise'
Derrick Purdue
'Constructing Engineers'
Gary Lee Downey
'A Spoonful of Blood: Haitians, Racism and AIDS'
Laurent Dubois
'Death Comes Alive: Technology and the Re-Conception of Death'
Karen Cerulo
'Suppression of Invention'
Stephen DeMeo
'Ecologists as Environmental Consultants'
Richard Emery
'Male Infertility'
Kirsten Dwight
'The Water Closet'
Marja Gastelaars
'The Californian Ideology'
Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron
'The Good, the Bad and the Transgenic'
Heather Dietrich
'Psychiatry as Social Control'
Richard Gosden
'The Chances of Losing Your Baby'
Birenbaum-Carmeli & Carmeli
'Sherry Turkle'
Living in the MUD
'Reading Biosphere 2'
Megan Stern
'The Social Construction of Farm Pollution'
Philip Lowe and Neil Ward
'Laughing Gas: Democracy without Feeling'
Santiago Colas
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Date: 30 Apr 1996 13:39:26 -0700
From: BARROS@utarlg.uta.edu
Subject: Honors Integrated Sciences Course
As director of the Honors Program at The University of Texas at
Arlingto,
I am working with science faculty on an interdisciplinary SCIENCE core
course for Honors students.  I would welcome suggestions for course
texts,
syllabi or other materials that might help us in the planning of the
course.
Carolyn A. Barros
Associate Professor of English
Director, UTA Honors
Box 19419
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX  76019
barros@utarlg.uta.edu
817-272-2338