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On 20 Mar 2018 19:46:39 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:

>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/

Nope, I know most of the E. A. Poe stories. The story I'm trying to
remember was written between about 1950 and 1965.

--  
Jim