Among dreamlings, the following text is known as Gaddis' Theory, which is developed and debated by its contemporaries. The text itself expresses very well the essense of the subject matter.
Personally, I've always had this same sense about what's going on in the cosmos, in all this space and during all this time. It's curious, then, that the text expressses equally well what's going on at the game table. This may be the key to explaining the attraction to tabletop roleplaying games as opposed to other venues, such as console or online PC games.
The words are quoted by Walter Alvarez in an interview by Pamela Weintraub printed in Discover magazine (October 2009). The cited author of the words is a history professor at Yale University.
“I prefer to think of the present as a singularity...through which the future has got to pass in order to become the past. The present achieves this by locking into place relationships between continuities and contingencies. On the future side of the singularity, these are fluid, decoupled, and therefore indeterminate. However, as they pass through it they fuse and cannot then be separated.”
-- John Lewis Gaddis, historian, Yale University, Blue-green Paradise
THE PARADIGM
