Re: general weirdness

dsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dennis Lewis) writes:

> ... A few days later he answered a knock on his door and was
> surprised to see a Gypsy lady standing there. ... "I have traveled a
> long way," she said in a low, accented voice. ... "I have traveled a
> long way" is an old Masonic pass phrase and is frequently used in
> [extraterrestrial] contacts. Sometimes the simple phrase, "What time
> is it?" or "What is _your_ time?" is substituted. ...
> --"Our Haunted Planet," John A. Keel, p. 109, Fawcett Publications,
> 1971.

...More often a circumlocutious pathway is followed.

"Say, fellow, do you have the time?"

"It must be about eleven. There's a clock over there. It's ten
forty-five."

"Oh, yes. Still rather early."

...

"Say, fellow, do you have the time?"

"It must be about one. There's a clock over there. It's twelve
forty-five."

And on and on!
-- Donald Webster Cory, _The Homosexual in America_ (1951)

Bought by me in August 1961, but I must have read it earlier, because
I recognized the allusion in "There's a clock over there" by the man
from Providence who cruised me on the Esplanade, summer of 1960.
--
--- Joe Fineman joe_f@xxxxxxxxxxx

||: We have had artificial _foolishness_ for a long time. :||
.

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