From cowan@locke.ccil.org Sat Jan 29 12:43:48 2000 X-Digest-Num: 348 Message-ID: <44114.348.1877.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 100 16:01:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Subjunctive? Jorge Llambias scripsit: > The restrictions to worlds where most people don't have > a million dollars was so as to avoid worlds where the inflation > in the US had been something like in Argentina, so that > everyone would have a million dollars, and it would not be > enough either to make you rich or buy you a yacht. Line of dialogue from a mercifully forgotten post-nuclear-holocaust novel: "Oh, he wanted to give me a million dollars to go up to his room with him, but I said nothing doing." -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin