You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our first reprint for the month of July 2018, issue 142. And again, reprints like these would not be available to you without your

continued support. So please go to Clarksworld magazine.com, forward slash donate, where you will find links to Patreon.com

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Our first reprint is titled Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a sigh.

And is by John Barnes.

John Barnes has 31 commercially published and two self-published novels, some of them to his

credit along with hundreds of magazine articles, short stories, blog posts, and encyclopedia articles.

Most of his life, he has written professionally,

and for much of it he has been some kind of teacher,

and in between he has held a large number of odd jobs involving math, show business, politics, and marketing,

which have more in common than you'd think.

He is married and lives in Denver. You can find him at his website that John Barnes.

blog swap.com and if you like what you hear February 2014 brought you Martian heart. So my dear

listeners I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Long ago I dreamt things to myself because when I talked to people I had nothing else to do most of the time.

Robots were easy. I could loan them cycles and bandwidth to temporarily accelerate them, or just download them and read them completely at my speed.

Humans were human-paced without other options.

So I learned to dream things to myself in the long milliseconds between the time when

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