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Article #621203Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:33
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:33
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On 2018-03-21, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On 21 Mar 2018 16:21:04 GMT > Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > >> BTW, Leiber had this story which was kind of the opposite >> ... Rump-Titty-Tah-Tee or something. Where a new jazz riff is so > > Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee - it worries me a little that I recall > it right down to the TAH. I didn't read that one. (For some reason I never read much of Leiber's stuff.) However, I pulled out my copy of Arthur C. Clarke's collection of SF tall tales, _Tales from the White Hart_, and sure enough, there was "The Ultimate Melody", about someone who built a machine that sorted through various riffs until it hit upon the Ultimate Melody, at which point the machine's creator went into a state of blissful catatonia which could not be broken by any means. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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