RARA-AVIS: my sci fi fantasy

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Subject: RARA-AVIS: my sci fi fantasy
From: Frederick Zackel <fzackel@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 12:58:37 -0400 (EDT)
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I once had an idea for a science fiction story: what if the world had
become so Mass Produced, that the most valuable object d'art would be an
unpublished manuscript, the kind in the bottom of the dreser?  

    "It's the only one of its kind," the dealer cooed.
    "Signed?" asked the buyer.
    "Better than that," the dealer said.  "See, here's the stack of
rejections from all the major publishers and agents of the Twentieth
Century!"
    "Have you read it?"
    "What!  Of course not!  That would ruin its virginal status!" The
dealer leaned closer and whispered to the buyer, "It hasn't been read in
over a hundred years.  That's what makes it so priceless!"
    "You guarantee it's the only one in existence?"
    "Not even a Xerox!" the dealer boasted.
    The buyer said, "Good!"  He pulled out his gun and shot the
startled book dealer between the eyes.  He caught the manuscript as the
buyer slumped to the floor.  "Now it's mine."

Frederick Zackel
Bowling Green State U
    

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