[extropy-chat] Re: Transhumanist short story

[Technotranscendence]

On Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:34 PM Damien Broderick
thespike at satx.rr.com wrote:
> At 04:58 AM 8/10/2005 -0700, Stuart wrote:
>
> >Once upon a time, transhumanists overcame impossible
> >odds, and lived happily ever after.
>
> Why so verbose? I have to admit that I find my own fairytale version
more
> concise:
>
> "Once upon a time, everybody lived happily ever after."
>
> There is a great temptation to shorten these things. I'm reminded of
the
> chilly modification made to a classic short short by my late friend
Ron Smith:
>
> ==================
>
> http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1439751 :
>
> "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the
door..."
>
> This two-sentence horror tale is presented as a story within a story,
right
> at the start of Fredric Brown's 'Knock', published in the December
1948
> edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
>
> ... in July 1957, Ron Smith produced what he called 'A Horror Story
Shorter
> by One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever Written':
>
> "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a lock on the
door..."
>
> ======================
>
> Here is my upload version, "A Horror Story Shorter by Two Letters Than
'A
> Horror Story Shorter by One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever
> Written'":
>
> "The last man on Earth sat alone in a ROM. There was a log on the
door..."

And my update to that:

"The last human sat alone in a ROM. The power was off..."

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/AnarchismJustified.html