[txhurl]

But that doesn't line up with 'nor ever plan to share, at least until everyone on Earth knows them'

Like everyone knows 'katrina' or '9/11' etc...?

It's as if he expects the world to learn these words before these words have any shocking emotional meaning.

[Ancesthntr]

But that doesn't line up with 'nor ever plan to share, at least until everyone on Earth knows them'

Like everyone knows 'katrina' or '9/11' etc...?

It's as if he expects the world to learn these words before these words have any shocking emotional meaning.

What if the phrase "The Message" or something similar becomes the emotional watchword of the day, like "Pearl Harbor" did in 1941? IOW, Pearl Harbor is the thing that woke us up then, and The Message "will" in x number of years. I think that a known writer (which the writer of the story clearly is in the story itself ) with foreknowledge of the future could write a story that would wake up the world as soon as those events occurred.