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The Vertical Plane
Ken Webster · 初版 1989 年
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在整整两年的时间里，Ken Webster 陷入了一种不可思议的境地：与四个世纪前曾生活在他那座小屋原址上的人直接通信。通信始于餐桌上家用电脑中留下的信息，止于直接潦草写在纸上的字迹。Webster 原本完全做好了面对某种精心设计的骗局的心理准备，却惊愕地发现信息中的用词与16世纪英语用法完全吻合。《The Vertical Plane》是一段令人入迷的亲身经历，讲述了发生于……中无法解释的时空断层。
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……好些年了，但这个直接勾起了回忆。作为非虚构作品它很站不住脚，但作为虚构故事来读还是很有意思的。话说回来，完全不相干的另一本书，同样作为非虚构很扯淡、但作为虚构读着很爽：《The Vertical Plane》，作者是肯·韦伯斯特（Ken Webster）。书中声称在 20 世纪 80 年代的两年里，作者的 BBC Micro 电脑上不断出现来自 16 世纪和未来的信息，甚至还能产生一些互动。
…years but this triggered that. As a work of non-fiction it is dubious, but it's a fun read as a work of fiction. Now, wholly unrelated, but also a fun dubious as non-fiction but fun as fiction book: The Vertical Plane by Ken Webster which alleges that for 2 years in the 1980s messages from the 16th century and the future would appear on the author's BBC Micro computer with some interaction.
托马斯·摩尔（Tomas Moore）关于《The Vertical Plane》中所涉及事件的记载至今未被找到（只有一份拉丁文手写副本，为了妥善保管而被藏了起来）。托马斯自己的记述又在哪里呢？他那本在牛津大学写完、不知遗落在何处的原稿又在哪里？我们永远不会忘记那……
Tomas Moore's account of the events covered in The Vertical Plane have never been found (1 copy, handwritten in latin, hidden for safekeeping). Where is Tomas’s own account, his book that was finished at Oxford and left somewhere in manuscript? We never forget that…
这本书算不上什么神作，但我一点也不后悔发出来。多年前《Mysterious Universe》播客做过一期节目讲它，我才关注到的。《The Vertical Plane》也是一样，不过现在大家挺走运的，它已经再版了，你们不用像我当年那样掏一笔离谱的天价去买一本 VP 了。
It's not the greatest book but it was one I do not regret posting. They covered it on the Mysterious Universe podcast years ago which put it on my radar. Same with The Vertical Plane although, fortunately for people now, it's been re-printed so you don't have to pay an obscene amount for a copy of VP like I did.