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- Subject: Re: the other night you were with some friends
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:13:40 EST
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- In article <106309@netnews.upenn.edu>
- blewis@be.seas.upenn.edu (benn bet nun nun lewis) writes:
-
- > On the coalition for non-science:
- > there you are, in a restaurant telling these people about what happened
- >the other day:
- > "So, we had a choice, we could eat, we could watch the Star Wars Trilogy,
- >or we could do something else fun!"
- > "Ohh, please," we cried, "think of a fun game for us to play!"
- > "All right, but somebody else has to promise that after this,
- >somebody has walk down to the snack machines and buy me a candy bar, and
- >somebody else has to think of the next fun thing!"
- > "O.K."
- > "O.K."
- > "And would somebody buy me a coke?"
- > "Oooh, that sounds soooo good, can I get a diet pepsi?"
- > "O.K."
- > "O.K."
- >
- (then some stuff about answering machines and restaurants and recursive loops
- and time and the likelihood of getting rich in our old age)
- >
- So have you ever sat there, thrilled with your coke and new answering machine
- message and bubbly wit, having a deja-vu about the time when you were doing
- exactly what you are doing now, thinking ahead to the time when you will be
- looking back on these times of simple pleasures and genuine friends, and
- actually remembered the time when you were looking ahead to the time when you
- would be looking back on it all? If so, what kind of loop is that?
-
- I swear by the pendant hanging around my neck, if I ever do get rich, I will
- look back fondly on these days, where take-out Chinese will be, in retrospect,
- a greater source of fun than the Recreational Jungle at the Hawaii Nonsequitur
- Resort will have become then.
-