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Article #621205Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)
From: Tim Sprout
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:56
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:56
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On 3/21/2018 10:33 AM, Charlie Gibbs 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. Thank you! Reading this thread, I have been racking my brain to remember what story this was, though this story is not the subject of this thread. "The Ultimate Melody" has stuck with me all these years. -Tim Sprout
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