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Larry Hogue's avatar

I like the punny title. And the twist at the end. Whereas your other stories are often about the grim nature of academic life, this made it seem gripping!

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Mark Hannam's avatar

I’m not sure what came over me.

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Steven Dettwyler's avatar

Another wonderful, compelling tale. Many thanks and enjoy Australia and it’s many venomous creatures.

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Excellent. Good misleading title. Touch of Borges about it. Saw the death of the submitter coming but not the trip to Melbourne. Who was it that had a form letter for perpetual motion machines "the first error in your calculations occurs at line __." ?

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Mark Hannam's avatar

Thanks! Borges is high praise... although admittedly some of his stories were duds. I've heard of many form letters, from back in the days when people had the time to reply. Now we just delete the email.

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