doubling ideas ...

maa32 · 05 Jul 2003, 07:28 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) doubling ideas ...
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 00:28:20 -0700
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Boy, this is weird.  Have you ever felt like you had an original idea, thou=
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about it a little, got excited, and then realized that you had already posi=
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the same idea long ago and dismissed it, but forgot all about it?

I was googling "Urth is doubled" and "Miracle of Apu-Punchau", and I found =
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fascinating post that was almost word for word what I wrote two days ago. =20
However, when I looked at it, I realized that I had written it last Decembe=
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in the archives and completely forgotten about it.  I knew that I had brief=
ly=20
entertained the notion of the doubing Urth, but I thought the Miracle of=20
Apu-Punchau thing was a new spin on it, but jeez ... it's all right there i=
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the December archives - in my ponderous and vague prose, too.  Nothing is n=
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under the New Sun, I guess.

Has this ever happened to anyone else on the list?  Genuinely thinking you =
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a new idea only to discover that a much younger version of your self had go=
ne=20
through with far more alacrity than you are now capable of sustaining?

Marc Aramini

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