Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: Twilight Zone question & comment Message-ID: <2124@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 00:04:27 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.2124 Posted: Wed Nov 13 00:04:27 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 00:59:39 EST References: <19200047@uiucdcs> <667@hou2a.UUCP> <395@ihlpl.UUCP> <396@ihlpl.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 24 >> You saw the entire story. I think the point was that the child was too >> intellegent (threatening?) to the society and had to be destroyed. >> Any other thoughts? >> Diane Wilkerson > That's what I got out of it too. The twist was that you didn't know until the > end that it was bad to do well. Unless, like me, you read that story > somewhere. Does anyone know who wrote it? > Marguerite Didn't Kurt Vonnegut write a story about a futuristic society in which (according to bery high numbered amendments to the Constitution), nobody could be smarter than you, or better lookin' than you, etc. And if you were too smart, you had to wear a "radio" (i.e., a loud set of headphones). Forgive me if my recollection is vague or inaccurate, I did NOT read this story, I had seen it in a PBS Vonnegut anthology called "Between Time and Timbuktu". What story/book was this actually from? (Replies by mail, please, as I rarely read net.tv.) -- And now, a hidden satanic message: _ 9L|^6| _ W6Vn|na| 622 Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr