http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/ Just another Perl Hacker's blog Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/#comment-72 dan.foolishmortal.org Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:01:12 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=29#comment-72 Post a link if you find it, please. Post a link if you find it, please.

]]> http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/#comment-71 Dave Cross Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:38:36 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=29#comment-71 Heh, you're not wrong there. Try explaining the Northern Line to a tourist. Heh, you’re not wrong there. Try explaining the Northern Line to a tourist.

]]> http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/#comment-70 pndc Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:29:00 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=29#comment-70 Boston has nothing on the Victorian maze that is the London Underground. Throw in the DLR and London Overground lines (since it's all treated as a logical whole on the maps and for ticketing purposes) and the mathematician in question will be quickly curled into a ball, crying. Boston has nothing on the Victorian maze that is the London Underground. Throw in the DLR and London Overground lines (since it’s all treated as a logical whole on the maps and for ticketing purposes) and the mathematician in question will be quickly curled into a ball, crying.

]]> http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/#comment-69 Dave Cross Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:54:04 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=29#comment-69 Oh, that sounds very likely. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll have to track down a copy of that story and re-read it. Oh, that sounds very likely. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll have to track down a copy of that story and re-read it.

]]> http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/#comment-68 hercynium.myopenid.com Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:00:36 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=29#comment-68 In Boston the layout of the subway system is complicated enough that the scenario in that story is not too hard to imagine! I've lived here all my life and still get lost in the multi-level maze that is the Park Street station... In Boston the layout of the subway system is complicated enough that the scenario in that story is not too hard to imagine!
I’ve lived here all my life and still get lost in the multi-level maze that is the Park Street station…

]]> http://perlhacks.com/2009/10/a-subway-metaphor/#comment-67 rozallin Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:41:32 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=29#comment-67 Could the short story you're referring to be "A Subway Named Möbius" by A. J. Deutsch? It's set in Boston rather than New York City, but the plot sounds identical otherwise. I read it many years ago in a 1950s SF anthology borrowed from the library, and it's stayed with me too. -- Rosellyne Thompson Could the short story you’re referring to be “A Subway Named Möbius” by A. J. Deutsch? It’s set in Boston rather than New York City, but the plot sounds identical otherwise. I read it many years ago in a 1950s SF anthology borrowed from the library, and it’s stayed with me too.
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Rosellyne Thompson

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