Short Story 51: How I Lost the Second World War ...

Jeff Wilson · 24 Aug 2013, 18:25 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:25:31 -0500
Subject: (urth) Short Story 51: How I Lost the Second World War ...
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On Sat, August 24, 2013 04:50, Mo Holkar wrote:
> At 21:20 23/08/2013, you wrote:
>>The Bath exposition mentioned in the text ? is
>>this similar to the Paris Expositiions of
>>1937/38 and a kind of transplantation from art
>>to technology, or completely unrelated?
>
>
> I have wondered 'why Bath?' In real life it's a
> smallish antiquated town, with no industrial
> tradition, and not at all a likely candidate for
> the hosting of such an exposition. Yet, being
> Wolfe, one feels there must be some reason why he chose it.


Perhaps a front of misdirection on the part UK, parallel to their assembly
of scale factory mockups to draw Axis bombing attacks away from actual
factories during the war.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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