[UA] Enigma

Peter Hindman strev at arches.uga.edu
Thu Nov 9 04:23:57 PST 2000


Joe Broin writes:
>>Peter Hindman (me!) writes:
>>    On a similar note, I once had an idea for a story in which a key
>> fragment of the King in Yellow gets incorporated into an email virus.
>> Never wrote it, though.

>A bunch of interstellar explorers have travelled the cosmos, looking for
>aliens, and haven't found a single one. Then, one day, one of them
>suddenly realises he's just had an alien idea - the alien is a meme. He
>communicates it to the rest of the crew, with, er, hilarious
>consequences.

   I remember that story.  Creepy.  Which reminds me that after I sent the
last message, I was smacking myself for not ending it with '...and
hilarity ensues.'


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