Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Submission for mod-music-gaffa Message-ID: <8612290831.AA20486@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 22:41:53 EST Article-I.D.: EDDIE.8612290831.AA20486 Posted: Sun Dec 28 22:41:53 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Dec-86 18:35:20 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 27 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Jan GrayPath: watmath!jsgray From: jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Re: X4 Message-ID: <4118@watmath.UUCP> Date: 29 Dec 86 03:41:52 GMT References: <8612250456.AA03632@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 When I first heard Experiment IV, I immediately thought of A.C. Clarke's "The Ultimate Melody" from _Tales of the "White Hart"_, in which an experimenter discovers a melody so entrancing that he goes catatonic humming it to himself. I find this a more interesting interpretation than the sound resonance weapon mentioned in the previous posting. Or to mangle Kate and Monty Python, "They told us all they wanted was a joke that could kill someone" Jan Gray jsgray@watmath University of Waterloo (519) 885-5921 [NSA food: terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, CIA, secret, decode, foo] [CSIS food: tuna, fiberglass coffins, supermailbox, microfiche, fuddle duddle]