Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!akgua!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!brian From: brian@sdccsu3.UUCP (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: clothes hanger metamorphosis Message-ID: <1942@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 21:07:58 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1942 Posted: Sun Jun 17 21:07:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:44:41 EDT Organization: UCSD beer & pizza society Lines: 31 [they might truely BE windmills...] Those who remember the continuing conjecture regarding the metamorphosis of paperclips, safety pins, coat hangers and bicycles that took place here on the the net a few months back may be interested in the pursuing the source of the affair: the other day I had occasion to re-encounter the sci-fi story from which it all originated: Avram Davidson's "Or All the Seas With Oysters". The copy I have is in "The Vintage Anthology of Science Fantasy: Twenty Stories in the Modern Manner" edited by Christopher Cerf. Enjoyable reading! A brief excerpt (as permitted by copyright law): "... Oscar, the safety pins are the pupa forms and then they, like, HATCH. Into the larval forms. Which just look like coat hangers. They feel like them, even, but they're not.... All those bicycles the cops find, and they hold waiting for the owners to show up ... they were never made in a factory. They grew." Get it by all means. Lots of other good stories too. Maybe this should have been in net.bio??? :-) -- -Brian Kantor, UC San Diego ihnp4 \ Kantor@Nosc decvax \ akgua ----- sdcsvax ----- brian dcdwest/ ucbvax/