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Humans are filtering creatures who have some capacity to interrogate and design the filters. Surfing, some fragments of information stick and some don't. This book is one possible negotiation written out. They say that time is there so that everything doesn't happen all at once, so things have room to move out of each other's way. But enough of it does happen all at once, don’t you think? You think it's all a plot? Well maybe it is - but it's the only one we got. You take those islands that don't show up on a cheap atlas. They're American aren't they? Don't you think that? Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the troublesome ones that do show up like Cuba or Manhattan, where a surprisingly large number of things happen at once.