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quantism[edit]

In The Number of the Beast, Heinlein quantizes that the many parallel, fictional universes - in terms of works of fiction.

This usage of quantize is new to me. What, if anything, does it mean? (The sentence was more coherent but equally puzzling before the last change.) —Tamfang (talk) 04:01, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The title doesn't reflect the content of the article.[edit]

The title suggests a conclusion. "It's all just fiction, not to be taken as a serious possibility." A better title would be "Parallel universe hypothesis." 2600:8801:BE01:2500:1499:78DB:4944:F113 (talk) 00:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

facsimiles[edit]

In some later retellings of Peter Pan, facsimiles of the characters created by J. M. Barrie ...

Does this mean the characters are impostors? Are they contrasted with the real ones, perhaps in backstory? —Tamfang (talk) 00:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC) —Tamfang on your question: The characters depicted in these retellings are those created by J. M. Barrie but have been somewhat altered; they may have been re-named or their genders or ethnicities changed, been aged up or down or given different described appearances, different personalities or different roles. So essentially those authors have borrowed or copied these characters from J. M. Barrie but then have gone and made them their own to fit into their own interpretation of the story they've done! So they are based on J. M. Barrie's creations but are ever so slightly not! So what else would you call them but facsimiles? Please request the right word for them so I can rectify it!For example the character of John Darling is renamed Henry aged up into a pre-teen in Nevermor and in Everland is aged up into a teenager and changed into a girl called Joanna — Preceding CSOOCS comment added by CSOOCS (talk • contribs) 15:40, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]