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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
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Subject: Re: "Press Enter _" by John Varley; long review, many spoilers
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 15:42:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 15:42:03 1985
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Paul, 

Maybe I didn't read the story very closely, but I did not draw
the conclusion you did about the murderer.  It was only the surmise
of the non-technical Victor Apfel which declares the murderer to
be a program and the method to be a mysterious "carrier wave".  When
I read the story I supposed that humans were behind the whole thing
(although using a lot of computer resources) and that the victims
were hypnotized by means of their CRT's.
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