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"We each live in a somewhat unique world of our own psychological content."
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![]() Scyth Radnor is trying to explain to the beings on the third planet from the sun that it might be necessary to move their planet just a bit. Better get the menslator.
Fortunately, it's not very big, so you can carry it around when you speak with the natives.
Compare this item to Larry Niven's translator disks from Ringworld (1970) and of course Douglas Adams' Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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