On Oct 10, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Humanity was not erased in the story. When they got back home to the future, the results of the recent election had been reversed, with the more dictator-like candidate being elected instead of the more freedom-loving candidate (hence my allusion to the current political race), and that is when the hunter discovers the butterfly crushed in the mud on his boot and the safari guide shoots him (the titular "sound of thunder") for changing the future. The end.
Yeah -- and the language on all the signs had changed as well, to something that looked, IIRC, pre-literate or Hooked on Phonics-like.
Which, when you think about it, brings a certain subliterate "president" to mind...
Hmm.
Anyone gone big game hunting recently...?
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