I’ve been intrigued for a while by Carlos Eire’s new book, They Flew: A History of the Impossible, which “argues” that we should take medieval testimonies of miraculous flight and bodily bilocation more seriously than most of us do. He doesn’t just mean that we should respect the beliefs and experiences expressed in these reports, but that we should take them seriously as fact: “The] assumed impossibility of [these] events deserves closer scrutiny,” Eire writes.
Checking this out in a local bookshop, I was intrigued that the author was from Yale. So he's serious (or that's what's it says on the packet).
Also, I'm a sticker for taking sources seriously. The more surprisingly the better. But your review shows how it's all for naught because the author doesn't use it to do proper time travel, entering another time's way of understanding the world.
Checking this out in a local bookshop, I was intrigued that the author was from Yale. So he's serious (or that's what's it says on the packet).
Also, I'm a sticker for taking sources seriously. The more surprisingly the better. But your review shows how it's all for naught because the author doesn't use it to do proper time travel, entering another time's way of understanding the world.