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From: grafton@idec.UUCP (S. Grafton)
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Subject: Re: Matter Transmission/identity on file
Message-ID: <492@idec.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 06:21:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: idec.492
Posted: Tue Sep 24 06:21:27 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:39:29 EDT
References: <3645@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1180@mtgzz.UUCP>
Reply-To: grafton@idec.UUCP (S. Grafton)
Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK
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Keywords: Clone Matter Transmission
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In article <1180@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>They can't all be the original.  Take my word for it, if you are
>destroyed and replaced by an exact copy with your mind, you are dead.
>The exact copy is only that.  I know.  It happens to me every night.
>
>				Mark Leeper

This reminds me of another one of those short stories that I can
remember reading, 'The Tunnel under the World' by Fred Pohl (if my
colleague's memory serves him right).  The above comment jogged the old memory.
It was about a man who found himself in a very strange situation.  Every day
people about him were doing exactly the same things that they were doing the
day before.  It was always the same day, there were always the same progs on
the tele (so whats new) and so on.  Anyway he and a chum hide away somewhere
but are eventually found.  He finds out, much to his dismay, that he is in
fact a Robot.  His whole town was distroyed when a factory exploded and
everyone had been killed.  An advertising agency had brought the town
, 'reincarnated' the people as robots, and tested out different advertising
techniques on them.  They were reprogrammed every night.  Who knows, this
may already have happened ......


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