Postscript: Sitting Back on the Sofa

Postscript: Sitting Back on the Sofa

David Noel
<davidn@aoi.com.au>
Ben Franklin Centre for Theoretical Research
PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia.

"Why must I be the planetary rebel?" he asked the Flopglopple. "Perhaps you are like me", said the Flopglopple. "You enjoy stirring things up". "But I don't. I like smoothing things over. I like my feet high up on a sofa, eating peanuts". "Nonetheless, you are not like the other botanists", said the Flopglopple. "I have always known this about you".

-- William Kotzwinkle. E.T., the Book of the Green Planet

Postscript

In some sense, I didn't write this book; it wrote itself. Or perhaps the book used me to make itself known. Like E.T., I have not sought to stir things up and produce controversial theories, but was the innocent victim of circumstances which just dumped huge piles of evidence in front of me and said "Be honest now, what is the only thing all this can mean?".

Another way of looking at it would be to say I have been the producer and director of a play, having been given the raw script, written in rocks and genes, and told to put it up in a form suitable for presentation to the public. Who was the playwright? Perhaps the Earth itself.

It has been a fascinating and absorbing job, taking up the loose leaves of each new Act, and turning them over to find surprise after subtle surprise lurking within. I hope that you, the reader, will have found some pleasure and utility from my efforts to Let the Earth Speak.

-- David Noel (Perth, Australia, 1989)

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