Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)

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From: JimP
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:49

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On 21 Mar 2018 18:33:36 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:

>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.

I remember that story, but thats not it.

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