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Date Posted: Fri, October 07 2022, 16:19:19
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Saturday, October 8, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 95 The Body Electric


Still, her mind wouldn’t let go of the matter. Electromagnetism . . . Bodied had electric fields of their own, she knew that much. Was that maybe why you didn’t just disintegrate when you traveled? Did your own field keep you together, just long enough to pop out again? She supposed that might explain the gemstone thing: you could travel on the strength of your own field, if you were lucky, but the energy released from the molecular bonds in a crystal might well add to that field, so perhaps . . . ?

“Bugger,” she said, her overworked mental processes creaking to a halt. She glanced guiltily at the hallway that led to the kid’s room. They both knew that word, but they oughtn’t to think their mother did.

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