[stylist] story I just wrote

[Shelley J. Alongi]

When Worlds Collide was a novel.
Shelley J. Alongi
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"The face of an engineer who knew he was going to get killed by a freight 
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---SJA for anyone who wants to know
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updated November 1, 2009
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] story I just wrote


I seem to recall that "When Worlds Collide" is nonfiction!
It was around long enough ago that audio books (except for talking books)
were unknown.   Trying to recall the author, but though the name is teasing
my brain I can't be certain of it.
Lori

In a message dated 1/3/10 6:39:25 PM, astrochem119 at gmail.com writes:


> Lori,
>
> I'm not sure if this came through: I was mostly focussing on
> the relationship between student and professor, and how the
> "real" world had nothing left to offer them: how politics and
> bureaucracy had constricted the intellect so much that it had to
> escape. Could not help putting a few of my present feelings in
> it. Thank you for the editing suggestions: "Flitted" was just
> the word I was going for, I just couldn't remember it at the
> time! Also, the point about the briefcase helped: I didn't know
> they were that small!
>
> Shelley,
> Where did you find those books you mentioned earlier about
> worlds colliding? I can't find them on the NLS Talking Books,
> Bookshare, or RFBD.
> "I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the
> stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom
> has been reached through the stars."
> Sir Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (1882-1944), Stars
> and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
>
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