[UA] Enigma

[Tucker]

>(Hm... now I'm suddenly remembering a story I read as a child.)
<SNIP>

Wow.  I thought I was the only person on the planet who'd heard of Homer
Price.  Basically, he lived in a small rural town wherein unlikely things
happened, like a lady losing her diamond bracelet in a donut factory, or
the aforementioned jukebox song.  Or having all the houses in town replaced
by identical Sears Roebuck houses, so no one knows where they live anymore.
 Nothing really occult about it (except maybe that song), just general
wackiness.  But I loved the books when I was younger.

>The great danger of such a document is its viral nature in the new
>millenium.  Sure, Das Garten has to be copied by hand, but the catchy song
>(or perhaps its literary variant, a short story that distractingly haunts
>the thoughts of every reader) can be distributed on MP3 or Xeroxed and
>posted everywhere.  That's bad enough with just a distraction, but what if
>the effect was something more dangerous? 

This sounds suspiciously like a plan that Pinky and the Brain would have
come up with.  :)


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If you aren't a rebel at 20, you have no heart.
If you aren't establishment at 30, you have no brain.


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