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Re: SpaceTime

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On 2/11/18 5:23 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> 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

A short but brilliant read. The automatic autosuggestive subvibratory 
superaccelerator!  I love the poem so am certain I would have remembered 
that story if I had read it previously. Thank you for the suggestion.

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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 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-11-06 00:59 -0700
    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 benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-11-04 02:09 -0500
              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 The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-11-02 14:47 -0700

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