planetary problems

Jeff Wilson · 28 Dec 2010, 20:41 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:41:34 -0600
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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On 12/28/2010 1:32 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> However, if the Horn encountered a white rabbit with a pocket
> watch who was late for an appointment and a little blonde girl chasing
> him, or a detective in a hunter's cap who was investigating the Hound of
> the Baskervilles, this would be a different _kind_ of story.

How about a scientist who plays God by performing forbidden experiments 
in a castle by a lake, or a mechanical workman who has traveled many 
leagues looking for a way to fall in love, or a forgotten king of kings 
represented only by some ancient statuary in some distant, uninhabitable 
corner of the world he once ruled?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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