[extropy-chat] Re: Transhumanist short story

[Mike Lorrey]

Actually, that wouldn't be transhumanist, since it is a historical
short story. A transhumanist short story will use the future tense...

--- "Lifespan Pharma Inc." <megao at sasktel.net> wrote:

> Technotranscendence wrote:
> 
> >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
> >
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> >
> >  
> >
> should be "then the power went out"
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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