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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
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Posted: Sun Jun 17 21:07:58 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:44:41 EDT
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[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 
	
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