THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS

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And now," said Hiram with a showman's flourish, "I believe I have achieved my life's goal. I'd suggest holding on to something—even someone else's hand.…" Considering the authors are atheists the depiction of the historical Jesus is surprisingly sympathetic and positive. The WormCam study of his life finds that he was merely human but a great man, and an inspirational figure; probably the most inspirational figure ever. This portrayal is based on Jesus by A. N. Wilson.

He studied her a little more closely now, evidently enjoying the gentle verbal duel. "You know, I could have guessed you were a journalist—a writer, anyhow. The way you were watching the people reacting to the virtual, rather than the virtual itself…I saw your pieces on the Wormwood, of course. You made quite a splash." He sheds tears for the people he’s lost touch with or who are far away. After all the laughter and merriment, he feels as though he’s the only one left in a deserted banquet hall. The hall that was once bright with flowers and full of life has faded into a dull and colourless void. After the party has ended, the lights have been turned off, the garlands have withered, and the guests have left, leaving the speaker to wander the empty hall in a daze. As a result, the poem is saturated with melancholy and a sense of loss. I. Answer these questions in one or few words.Ans: When the ‘fond memories’ that gives the poet momentary bliss are replaced by an overwhelming sense of loneliness, his fond memories turn bitter. The moment when the realisation dawns on the poet that his boyhood days, his friends and the words of love that he had shared and spent with those departed are now all a thing of the past. The ‘fond memories’ then, at once become sad. He mourns over his dead friends and his dearest ones who are very far away from him. He feels as though he is all alone in a banquet hall which is now deserted after all the mirth and the merry making. Intangible Time Travel: The physics of wormholes only allows energy to travel one way: from the past to the present. People can view the past all they want, and eventually in such detail that they can create virtual reality reconstructions of the past, but it's impossible to affect the past in any way. Chronoscope: The central technology of the novel, called Wormcam by its marketers. Significantly, it can view anywhere, at any time in the past or present (though not the future). The implications of this technology being freely available is fully explored. There was a heavy arm around her shoulder, a powerful scent of cheap cologne. It was Hiram Patterson himself: one of the most famous people on the planet.

He's only a virtual, I'm afraid. Our young sergeant over there, that is. Like his three companions, who are likewise scattered around the room. Even my father's grasp doesn't yet extend to resurrecting the dead. But of course you knew that." Ans:The expression "ere slumber's chain has bound me" means before the poet is fully asleep or before they are completely overcome by sleep. It signifies the brief moments before falling into a deep slumber, during which memories and reflections come to the forefront of their mind. She gravitated toward one of the larger knots of people nearby, trying to see who, or what, was the center of attention. She made out a slim young man with dark hair, a walrus mustache and round glasses, wearing a rather absurd pantomime-soldier uniform of bright lime green with scarlet piping. He seemed to be holding a brass musical instrument, perhaps a euphonium. She recognized him, of course, and as soon as she did so she lost interest. Just a virtual. She began to survey the crowd around him, observing their childlike fascination with this simulacrum of a long-dead, saintly celebrity.As he took his place those already here greeted him. There were the corpulent, complacent men and women who, in this new Russia, moved seamlessly between legitimate authority and murky underworld; and there were young technicians, like all of the new generations rat-faced with the hunger that had plagued his country since the fall of the Soviet Union. One of the central themes of the novel is that history is biased towards viewpoints of the person who wrote it. Hence many great "historical" events often did not occur as they now are collectively remembered. For example, during the book's progression, the time viewer technology shows that Jesus was the illegitimate son of a Roman centurion (although the apocryphal story of his visiting Great Britain is proven to be true), and that Moses was based on a collection of stories rather than the actions of a real person. The design of the Molniya satellites had been utterly ingenious. Korolev's great boosters were incapable of launching a satellite to geosynchronous orbit, that high radius where the station would hover above a fixed point on Earth's surface. So Korolev launched his satellites on elliptical eight-hour trajectories. With such orbits, carefully chosen, three Molniyas could provide coverage for most of the Soviet Union. For decades the U.S.S.R. and then Russia had maintained constellations of Molniyas in their eccentric orbits, providing the great, sprawling country with essential social and economic unity. Wormhole technology has advanced to the point where information can be passed instantaneously between points in the spacetime continuum. The wormhole technology is first used to send digital information via gamma rays, then developed further to transmit light waves. The media corporation that develops this advance can spy on anyone, anywhere it chooses. A logical development from the laws of space-time allows light waves to be detected from the past. This enhances the wormhole technology into a " time viewer" where anyone opening a wormhole can view people and events from any point throughout time and space. Ans: As the poet mourns over his dead friends and his dearest ones who are very far away from him. He feels as though he is all alone in a banquet hall which is now deserted after all the mirth and the merry making. The hall which was once so pompously decorated with light and flowers and was so full of life has now paled and turned into an insignificant and colourless space. The party is over, the lights have been put off, the garlands have party is over, the lights have been put off, the garlands have wilted, the guests have all departed and it is the speaker who is all alone as he walks dreamily in deserted hall.