Nice.
On Tue, 26 May 2015 04:47:22 -0500, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>
wrote:
Just to let you guys know, the stackexchange came up with a possible
match to the story and it took less than a day. The suggest story was
'Hands off' by Edward Everett Hale and the synopsis goes like this: A
person goes back in time and wants to save the patriarch Joseph from
being sold to the Midianites (as the Bible goes, he ends up in Egypt as
second in power only to Pharoah and saves the Hebrews from famine), a
'guide' comes along and shows him the disasters that happen to the world
if he were to carry out his plan.
Sounds like the story, just slightly mis-remembered. Oh, yeah, Hale was
a contemporary of Mark Twain and the story written in 1881. It was
reprinted in a collection of sci-fi stories in 1951, which is where the
96 year old probably read it.
On 5/24/2015 3:55 PM, Robbie Pence wrote:
I highly recommend you ask here:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions
Sincerely,
Robert Pence
585-857-9081 call/text
http://www.truefla.me
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>
wrote:
That sounds like a plan. I'm beginning to believe that he got the
author
wrong, but this guy is amazing, sharp as a tack at his age.
On 5/24/2015 5:54 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
No idea buddy but I wonder if the local Library would know?
On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:02:05 -0500, Steve Tomporowski
<[email protected]>
wrote:
This is way off topic, but one of you might know the story I'm
talking
about.
My buddy down in Florida is corresponding with a 96 year old former
B29
aircraft commander and he mentioned a story, which he said was by
Mark
Twain (I tried to find, could not) about a person that lost a
loved-one.
In response to his prayers, an angel came down to show him what
would have
happened in the future if that one had lived and basically, it was a
terrible outcome, so it was better that that person died early.
Now the potential for satire is there and it sounds like something
Clemens would have done, but I've run through his novels and short
stories
and found nothing even close.
Any ideas? I know it sound a lot like 'It's a Wonderful Life', but
it
should predate it....
Thanks....Steve
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