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From: ayers@convexs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: what is The Stump really?
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 13:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 13:46:00 1985
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>In "Dream Dancer" by Janet Morris, the first space platform
>built above the Earth (about a thousand years before the events in the
>book) is called "The Stump."  The origin of the name is "lost in
>antiquity"...


Was this space platform used for ship docking, etc?  Did the ships "back"
up to it?  Do you know a cowboy?  Ask him if his "filly" is "stump broke."


(And they said to me "You've lost your mind!" 
   and I said "No I haven't, I just can't 
       remember where I left it...")




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