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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 

Fritz Lieber?

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Pete