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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to hide something in Grand Central Station, make it big. For weeks I had been passing through New York's largest subway terminal, never noticing the large, fiberglass cubicle recently built there. Inside that plastic cage sprawls Astroflash, the enormous IBM computer which, after great financial success in Paris, has invaded America's largest city. When equipped with a subject's place and exact time of birth, the mechanical monster will spew out an "astro-psy-chological portrait" and "an astralcalendar for the coming six months," at the rate of 1100 lines a minute. Trilingual as well as speedy...
Astrology in my mind is associated with gypsy palmists and gray bearded men in starry dunce caps. Although I have never bothered to explore astrology, I still view this cybernetic intruder with distaste, in rather the same way I regard the industrial concerns which ravage the forests I have never taken time to visit. Some things should just be left alone. As a picturesque fantasy, astrology is rather quaint; when it takes on scientific pretensions, it becomes a cheap fraud...
...right. I didn't see any clergymen, but all sorts of other specimens did appear. They were attracted to this clever conglomerate of circuits and bolts. fascinated by its mystical aura and scientific precision. Damaska had said he considers palmists to be his "spiritual cousins," but these people, would never go to a palmist. Or to a private astrologer, for that matter. The first is too unconvincing, the second too expensive and exotic. For a people living in the Moon Age, the cybernetic version of the astrological moon can be just as believable as the sandy satellite visited...
...Harvard stickmen, who never held the lead, staged many rallies in the contest, but all were thwarted by untimely penalties and, in most cases, by B.U. goals scored while the Yardlings were shorthanded...
When I was small. I exhausted the racks of fairy tales in the neighborhood library. Tales of witches and trolls, goblins and potions, never failed to enchant me. I was dazzled by the sorcery of Merlin and his professional colleagues, by the scheming of astrologers and the cauldrons of brooding witches. This was the world I was entering. No wonder I was apprehensive...