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- From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Let us reverently consult the tortoise shell about the king
- Keywords: story
- Message-ID: <rhamilt.725727068@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:51:08 GMT
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- gaillard@panix.com (Ed Gaillard) writes:
-
- >They evolved rapidly, but, because they lived on the surface of a
- >tennis ball, they never developed science. With each stroke of a
- >...
- >ball drifted over the fence around the court, bounced once on the
- >path outside, and landed in the Hudson River, where it drifted awhile
- >(as most of the population drowned) and eventually sank (killing the
- >remnant).
-
- Damn, I was hoping that eventually their world would be blasted
- out of some teenager's isopropyl cannon, and their entire civilization
- would be slagged down to the bedrock. Bedrubber? Whatever.
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- Rowan T. Hamilton "To dig this is to groove on
- hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu hella shit."
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