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In article <1nxlbzi.9e0cfdnbf8fyN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>,
Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <6la53y39rs7h.6zy39yhq3d2.dlg@40tude.net>,
>>  SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:04:02 -0700, The Starmaker wrote:
>> > 
>> > > The problem with the word spacetime is that it is backwards.
>> > > 
>> > > It's suppose to be timespace...in that order.
>> > > 
>> > > You see, first came time
>> > > 
>> > > then came space.
>> > > 
>> > > Space comes from Time.
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > When you run out of time, you run out of space.
>> > 
>> > When you run out of space, you run out of time
>> 
>> That's when you meet two men who came from a place.
>
>The other day, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there.

He wasn't there again today; oh how I wish he'd go away.

There's a Fredric Brown story on that subject; let me see if I
can find it....

Here is is, "The Yehudi Principle," which I have in an old copy
of _Angels and Spaceships._  Somebody invents a gadget that
causes the user to give commands and have them (almost) instantly
obeyed ... by himself, in a very short fugue.  Except ...

Here's where it's to be found:

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62773

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-31 23:04 -0700
  Re: SpaceTime SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> - 2018-11-01 19:58 +1100
    Re: SpaceTime Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-01 04:15 -0700
      Re: SpaceTime snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-01 14:24 +0000
        Re: SpaceTime djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-11-01 16:23 +0000
          Re: SpaceTime snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-01 17:41 +0000
          Re: SpaceTime Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2018-11-02 07:51 +1300
        Re: SpaceTime Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-01 09:47 -0700
          Re: SpaceTime snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-01 17:41 +0000
          Re: SpaceTime djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-11-01 17:51 +0000
    Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-01 10:20 -0700
      Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-01 10:38 -0700
        Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-01 23:06 -0700
          Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-02 14:46 -0700
            Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-03 20:37 -0700
              Re: SpaceTime mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-11-03 21:32 -0700
                Re: SpaceTime benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 02:10 -0500
              Re: SpaceTime benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 02:09 -0500
              Re: SpaceTime "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2018-11-04 04:52 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-11-04 13:57 +0100
                Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-04 09:57 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-04 21:08 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-05 21:27 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-06 15:37 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-11-06 16:07 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-06 22:05 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-11-07 20:54 -0800
                Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-07 21:11 -0800
          Re: SpaceTime The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-02 14:47 -0700
  SpaceTime "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2018-11-01 03:18 -0700

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