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Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms

From wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr)
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms
Date 2015-08-22 03:57 -0400
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In article <cc75a468-1fd0-4e5c-81a7-f0d3febdb2f7@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> said:

> Robert Carnegie wrote:
>
>> As usual, I've forgotten the word that was chosen to apply
>> to the object that travels in time and becomes its own
>> past self - something out of the Arabian Nights?
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop> doesn't help
>> unless it's "bootstrap" or "grandfather", which I don't
>> think it was.  Nor ourobourobourobourobouros.
>
> Howzabout "autoanachronisms?"

No, that would be Delorean in 1955.

-- wds

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13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 15:47 +0000
  Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-20 15:54 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-20 11:59 -0500
      Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-20 14:26 -0400
        Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 23:18 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 13:03 -0400
      Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 11:02 -0700
        Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 16:31 -0400
          Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 14:05 -0700
          Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 15:37 -0700
            Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-21 13:06 -0700
              Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:57 -0400
            Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2015-08-22 07:01 +0000
  Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2015-08-20 09:20 -0700
  Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 16:18 +0000
  Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-08-20 09:32 -0700

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