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