From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!houca!lime!we13!otuxa!nwuxc!inuxc!burton
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Name that story
Article-I.D.: inuxc.221
Posted: Thu Jul  8 15:10:15 1982
Received: Fri Jul  9 02:35:39 1982

I need a story (and author) identified. A long while ago, I read a story
(part of a collection by different authors), which had the following
background:
	Mankind discovered that men could not withstand the psychological
pressures of space travel. To this end, a special device was developed
to be used by pilots, which shut off most of their sensory inputs. The
process was called 'going under the wire'. These men were especially
adapted to this condition, carrying scratchpads on their chest, with
a pencil point in one of their fingers to write on the pad, since the
'wire' also shut off their hearing and speech abilities. I can't remember
much else about the story, but this seems to be a pretty unique premise,
so hopefully someone out there can identify it for me. I also seem to
remember that the story was not complete; it was as if a small section
of a novel, or longer story, had been taken out to be used in the
anthology.  Can anyone help identify the story, and confirm if it
is a novel?  You should probably try to mail the answer directly to
me, since we have been having trouble lately with our links to the net.

			Doug Burton
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