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Subject: Re: Re: SF on controlling Time
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 10:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 10:11:00 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!apt    Jul  2 10:11:00 1985







I read a short story in a High School french class about rationing time
during a war (maybe WWII?).  Anyway, people received ration tickets,
the number depending upon how much time they needed to perform their
jobs for the rest of society.  However, rich people would buy ration
tickets from poorer people.  They then discovered that there is an "infinite"
amount of time between two days  (at midnight).  The people who sold their
tickets would just disappear until the next month.  Meanwhile, the rich 
people are living right through 'til June 56th, for instance.  It's a 
very good, light-hearted story.


			-=:| Alan Taylor |:=-

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