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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:16:57 -0500, JimP wrote:

> On 20 Mar 2018 16:00:51 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:25:24 -0500, JimP wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 Mar 2018 21:47:40 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>On Mon, 2018-03-19, JimP wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:40:53 +0000, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 14/03/2018 13:26, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>>>>> Nothing at all for the last couple of days? Is this maybe an
>>>>>>> Eternal September problem? I have visions of getting thousands of
>>>>>>> messages all at once.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I use a different usenet server and it is quite.
>>>>>>Maybe it is like that point at a party where everyone just stops
>>>>>>talking for a few seconds at the same time?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Andy
>>>>>
>>>>> There was an interesting short story written about that some years
>>>>> ago. A guy tried to investigate it, and shortly after he got
>>>>> started, something arrived outside of a party he was attending and
>>>>> the world came to an end. I didn't understand it, but apparently
>>>>> some being was going to return, not necessarily God, at that time of
>>>>> an hour, and thats why people all stop talking for a few seconds at
>>>>> the same time.
>>>>
>>>>Which story was that?  I've read it but cannot remember who wrote it.
>>>>The only hint I can offer myself is that almost all short fiction I
>>>>read is SF from the 1960s or earlier (aka "some years ago").
>>>>
>>>>/Jorgen
>>> 
>>> I'm at a loss as well as to author and story title. I seem to remember
>>> it as a short short story, less than 1,000 words.
>>
>>It also sounds a lot like the scene in The Restaurant at the End of the
>>Universe, where the believers are waiting for the coming of the Great
>>Prophet Zarquon (who has only eight minutes left before the apocalypse,
>>and apologises for being late).
> 
> Well, the story I remember was they weren't waiting for anyone, but the
> main character was trying to figure out why everyone stopped talking at
> a particular time each hour. Even though rooms full of people had been
> gabbing away loudly just seconds before.

Possibly this?

 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section10/





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