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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
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Subject: Re: BTTF Nov 5, 1955 specialness
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 04:36:59 EDT
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> -=-
> 
> On a hunch, was November 5 one of the days that the time traveller in
> H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine" went back in time?  I recall that it was 
> snowing at the end of the movie as his friends all left his house for the
> last time--it might have been November.  This could be the origin of all the
> oblique November 5 references....
> 
> 
Well, in the movie, if you'll recall, he left at on New Year's
Eve.  Remember his friend berating him for commemorating the turn
of the century alone?  I don't recall a month & day being
mentioned in the book...  I'll have to check.
-- 
					--rick heli
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