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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: As an inveterate waster of time,
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:40:27 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:55:20 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>I read youtube comments now and again.
>>>
>>>"The worst unison. And fascism. Like the hanging Lincoln cursed by Isaac
>>>Asimov."
>>>
>>>That is a google translation from an Asian language, but what is Dr A
>>>doing there?
>> 
>> Perhaps he is a symbol of precision and the Philosophy of the
>> Enlightenment?
>> That would seem reasonable from someone who knew only his popular
>> science works and not his SF.
>
>So what has Lincoln got to do with it?

Yes, and why "hanging?"
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."