[extropy-chat] Re: Transhumanist short story

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Technotranscendence wrote:

>On Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:34 PM Damien Broderick
>thespike at satx.rr.com wrote:
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>>At 04:58 AM 8/10/2005 -0700, Stuart wrote:
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>>>Once upon a time, transhumanists overcame impossible
>>>odds, and lived happily ever after.
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>>Why so verbose? I have to admit that I find my own fairytale version
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>more
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>>concise:
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>>"Once upon a time, everybody lived happily ever after."
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>>There is a great temptation to shorten these things. I'm reminded of
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>the
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>>chilly modification made to a classic short short by my late friend
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>Ron Smith:
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>>http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1439751 :
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>>"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the
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>door..."
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>>This two-sentence horror tale is presented as a story within a story,
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>right
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>>at the start of Fredric Brown's 'Knock', published in the December
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>1948
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>>edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
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>>... in July 1957, Ron Smith produced what he called 'A Horror Story
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>Shorter
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>>by One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever Written':
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>>"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a lock on the
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>door..."
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>>Here is my upload version, "A Horror Story Shorter by Two Letters Than
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>>Horror Story Shorter by One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever
>>Written'":
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>>"The last man on Earth sat alone in a ROM. There was a log on the
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>door..."
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>And my update to that:
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>"The last human sat alone in a ROM. The power was off..."
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>Regards,
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>Dan
>http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/AnarchismJustified.html
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should be "then the power went out"
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