But the reader has to realize that it can happen in normal life too. In showing that knowledge is confined, Clarke also assures that there is enough to find in the coming millenium. Do not believe mistakes are beyond us. It is neither easy to doubt their methods and conclusions, nor to convince everybody always to be alert for amazing solutions. Therefore difficult problems, also stories with an educating message, have to presented in an allegorical mold.
Some themes have to be brought up every generation and have to be told with another metaphor.
514-517. zum Anfang Works Cited Annas, Julia. An Introduction to Plato's Republic. The Projector, the Wit and the Mystic. Arthur C. Clarke, ed. Startling Stories 1949.