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From: norman@batcomputer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Free Energy Machine"
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 17:34:14 EST
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In article <293@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>Quite a while ago, I read a story which started with a young man
>strumming a guitar while a young lady was doing something very
>organic -- spinning or something -- in their nice little commune.
>
>The young man gets an idea, develops it, comes out with a
>something-for-nothing machine.  He then decides to leave his commune,

The name of the story is "The Man Who Learned Loving." Theodore Sturgeon
wrote it, and it nearly won a Nebula award when it was published in 1969.
-- 
Norman Ramsey     norman@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu       Pianist at Large