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Rarely does a century dawn so clearly and cleanly. In 1900 Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, ending the Victorian era. Her Majesty, as if on cue, died the following January, after a 63-year reign. Her empire included one-quarter of the earth's population, but the Boer War in South Africa was signaling the end of the colonial era. In China, the Boxer Rebellion heralded the awakening of a new giant. In America, cars were replacing horses, 42% of workers were in farming (today it's 2%), and the average life-span was about 50 (today...
...Boer War ends in South Africa...
...talking to Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was kicking around the world as a correspondent. I noticed he liked to watch the reaction when he stuck out his hand and said, "Hullo, I'm Winston Churchill." For he resembled his grandfather's pictures taken when that young Winston covered the Boer War at the turn of the century--boyish and freckled, greedy for trouble. Now, behind the police lines, Churchill and I chatted with a guilty, voyeur's air, as if awaiting some illegal sporting event--a cockfight or a sloppily organized human sacrifice...
...fictional Powers programs the neural simulator, reads to it great chunks of literature and history, questions it and eventually is questioned by it: "What race am I? What races hate me?" The big network likes Mozart and knows "something about the Dreyfus case and the Boer War" but is ignorant of such things as "corks stuck in bottles, the surface of a liquid reflection ... wrappers and price tags, up versus down, the effects of hunger ..." The hero comes to think of the computer as female and calls it Helen...
...young, energetic Irish immigrant in Australia at the turn of the century. Tim Shea is a good, intelligent man, the kind of big, decent fellow that men and women like. But he is thought to be dangerously political, no great admirer of the British Empire, and this during the Boer War, a time of obligatory super-patriotism. Give Shea some troubles; he's half a day's receipts from bank- ruptcy, supporting a raft of relatives, too kindly to press customers for payment. Too soft altogether; he is strangely affected by the death of an unknown young woman...