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Re: RARA-AVIS: my sci fi fantasy, pt 2



Geez, Gary, ya scare me!


On Tue, 6 May 1997, Gary Warren Niebuhr wrote:

> GWN's version, with apologies to Fred:
> 
> 
>    "It's the only one of its kind," the dealer cooed.
> 
>    "Passworded?" asked the buyer.
> 
>    "Impossible to open," the dealer said.  "See, here are e-mail
> 
> rejections from all the major publishers and agents of the Twentieth
> 
> Century!"
> 
>    "Have you read it?"
> 
>    "What!  Of course not!  If it is opened, a virus destroys the work!" The
> 
> dealer leaned closer and whispered to the buyer, "It hasn't been read in
> 
> over a hundred years since the author created it.  That's what makes it so priceless!"
> 
>    "You guarantee it's the only disc in existence?"
> 
>    "No paper copies!" the dealer boasted.
> 
>    The buyer said, "Good!"  The buyer could not believe his luck.  At last, he owned the great unread work by Fred Zackel.  The third Michael Brennan case. A disc like this, with a pedigree that guaranteed it had never been read, was worth millions.
> 
>    His mistake was to tell the dealer what a great deal he had just not made. The disc dealer pulled out his gun and shot the startled buyer between the eyes.  The dealer caught the disc as the buyer slumped to the floor.  "Now it's mine again. I wonder how often I can get away with this?"
> 
> 
> Hey, Fred. Don't let this come true!
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> 
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> Entertainment Service)
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