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On 20 Mar 2018 21:38:48 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
wrote:

>On Tue, 2018-03-20, Bob Eager 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/
>
>No, not Poe either.  I'm pretty sure it's a short story from an SF
>genre writer.  Possibly Asimov; I haven't read a lot by him, but he
>had stories with The Creator/God/Judgement Day aspects, which IIRC
>this one had -- the silences were a biological remnant or racial
>memory.  People subconciously stopped talking in order to listen to
>the voice of some supreme being.
>
>It could be Philip K. Dick too, or pretty much any SF author.
>
>Whatever story this is, it's hidden in some yellowing paperback in my
>library.
>
>/Jorgen

Possiblly a P. K. Dick story, but I don't think so. Doesn't remind me
of any H. Ellison stories either.

--  
Jim