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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Adventures in Book Archiving
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:56:06 -0400
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On 4/27/25 7:23 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:
> On 4/23/25 09:50, Robert Woodward wrote:
>> Stuff deleted-
> 
>> For example, Patricia
>> McKillip's _The Tower at Stoney Wood_, doesn't have one, while _The Book
>> more stuff deleted
> 
> For reasons that don't bear too close of scrutiny, the song Stony End 
> popped into my mind when I read this. It won't go away. And not the Nyro 
> version, the Streisand version. Arrrrgggghhhh!
> 

Arrrrgggghhhh indeed!

It was a very happy day when I discovered that I could intentionally 
force out such nasty earworms with one of a few well-chosen tunes I keep 
in reserve. Maybe you can think of a few that could work for you to 
displace your own current affliction.[1]

Tony
[1] Music tastes are so individualized that I hesitate to suggest any of 
mine, in case they are even worse for you than the one you have now.