🚀 go-pugleaf

On 21 Mar 2018 16:21:04 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se>
wrote:

>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

My only memory of music in the story would be more like late 1950s
dinner/dance music where everyone is in semi-formal clothers. And the
band is a piano, bass fiddle, a wind instrument of some sort.