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A Future We'd Like to See 1.60 - The Chain Rule
By Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne (Copyright 1994)

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Please copy this story and distribute it to ten of your best
friends, who should then distribute it to ten of their best
friends, etc. Archived at : etext.archive.umich.edu
/pub/Fiction/FWLS. Your dreams will come true. Read on.
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"No, the complete works of Billy Joel go THERE," I said,
pointing with a pen ObjIcon. "He's eighties more than he's
nineties, so he belongs in the blue wing."

"Whatever," the hacker tyke whined. "Who cares? So he's
not in the right decade. It's not like anybody remembers this
ancient stuff."

"Alright, let's look at it this way. What's your favorite
kind of music?"

"I dig grunge mostly," he said, setting the box of
recordings down on the museum floor.

"Okay. What if I were to tell you that grunge was actually
a throwback to the nineteen nineties?"

"I'd say you're full of shit," he calmly insulted.
"Everybody knows grunge was started by Stomach Contents a long
time ago. It's common knowledge."

I rooted through my audio bin and tossed him a splotchy blue
disk. "Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit. THAT is the original
grunge."

The kid toyed with the disk, examining the texture mapped
ocean patterns on the silver base. He span it, and placed it
near his ear, triggering the ObjIcon's playback mode.

"This isn't grunge," he said. "Where're the keyboards?"

"Grunge didn't have keyboards back then," I said. "Just a
guitar, bass and drum, usually."

"Then it's not grunge," he said. "It sounds close enough to
fool an old fart like you, though."

"Don't forget who's paying you, kid."