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From: chabot@miles.DEC
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Subject: Re: Star Wars
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 10:10:47 EDT
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  genat!geo
> When I was thirteen I read James Blish's "Cities in Flight" novels.  I really
> enjoyed them.  For those of you who haven't read them, he did a really good 
> job of making everything seem reasonable.  
>
> There was only one thing in those novels that stretched my credulity to the 
> breaking point.  I could accept gravity generators that were able to pick up 
> whole cities and send them shooting across the galaxy, I could accept drugs 
> that made you live forever, the one thing I could not accept was an 
> ex-hollywood movie star becoming president of the United States of America.

Or, as our man Flint said incredulously to the ZOWIE women telling him of their 
so-far pretty successful attempt to take over the US (their scheme included
kidnapping the president and replacing him with a look-alike): 

		"An *ACTOR* for president!!"

Sigh.  I think we were all wiser 20 years ago.  :-)

L S Chabot  ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa