Paul, No, no! I really want to read it now :-) L*
>Dear all,
>
>the last post was somehow popped out of the sent messages folder into the
>Outbox and sent unintentionally when I checked my email. My whole system
>had a crisis that I still haven't figured out. Unfortunately I think I lost
>the messages I was working on in response to Eva's boundaries and kathie's
>dualisms as well as nate's "history as ZPD" . I have been totally absorbed
>in working on a screen play about a 16th century andean prince, Waman Puma,
>with a peruvian friend. What an eye opener concerning genre and context as
>we have watched the characters spring to life when we begin to flesh out the
>concrete elements of the initially abstract scenes into which they were
>placed. Sometimes working with historical problems one has the feeling of
>solving puzzle where you don't have initially have the big picture (it
>didn't come in a box that had a picture on the outside) but once you do have
>it, all of the little pieces seem to order themselves, to spring roots or
>synapses that further inform and order the behavior of the individual parts.
>Quite fascinating!
>
>But anyway please disregard the message about short story reference.
>
>Paul H. Dillon
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Paul Dillon <dillonph@northcoast.com>
>To: XMCA <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 7:39 AM
>Subject: short story reference
>
>
> > I remember seeing the collective xmca memory spring into action once
>before
> > to produce the reference for a sci-fi story and i'd like to tap that if
> > possible. The story for which i'm seeking a reference concerns a fanciful
> > third world war between the us. and the ussr. Each side develops weapons
> > appropriate to their ideologies as envisioned by the author. The U.S.
> > develops neutron bombs that kill all the people and spare all the material
> > infrastructure (capital) while the USSR develops bombs that disintegrate
>all
> > the products of human labor (from tooth brushes and clothes to cars,
> > airplanes, and bridges) but spare all human life. As a result there are
> > many survivors in the US but none in the USSR. Some of these survivors
> > manage to walk/travel all the way to Russia where they find a basically
> > intact material infrastructure which they begin to use. The story ends
>with
> > a description of the protagonist survivors who have clearly become Russian
> > in terms of their psychology/personality even to the point of speaking
> > Russian.
> >
> > The internalization metaphor is cute and I wonder if any sci-fi fans out
> > there in xmca land have ever run across this story and have a ref for it.
> >
> > Paul H. Dillon
> >
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