At 09:22 PM 29/08/00 -0700, MMB wrote:
>How about the G[rim]. R[reaper]. behind bars?
Vinge, as usual, was there ahead of us:
"They were famous pictures: Death on a Bicycle, Death Visits the Amusement
Park.... They'd been a fad in the 2050s, at the time of the longevity
breakthrough, when people realized that but for accidents and violence,
they could live forever. Death was suddenly a pleasant old man, freed from
his longtime burden. He rolled awkwardly along on his first bicycle ride,
his scythe sticking up like a flag. Children ran beside him, smiling and
laughing."
(Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime, 1986)
Damien Broderick
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