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On Wed, 2018-03-21, Peter Flass wrote:
> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20 Mar 2018 21:38:48 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
>> wrote:
...
>>> 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.
>
> Fritz Lieber?

Leiber.  It's possible: I've read a lot of his short fiction in recent
years.  I especially like the late horror stories, from the 1970s.
They are a bit hard to track down: there have been reissues in the
past decade, but no effort to publish all his stort stories.

On the other hand, it doesn't "feel" like a Leiber story.
On the third hand, not all of them do.

JimP?

BTW, Leiber had this story which was kind of the opposite
... Rump-Titty-Tah-Tee or something.  Where a new jazz riff is so
catchy it goes viral, and spreads into everything from women's fashion
to architecture and insane asylums ... the beatniks who came up with
it have to invent another riff to cancel it out.

/Jorgen

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