Tom wrote (see below):
Good luck with your exhibit.
The V2s were frightening. People who had endured the air
assaults for several years were scared stiff of them.
As you know they were supersonic. They hit, then you heard
them.
Rather like the frightening aspect of an earthquake.
Suddenly . . . . . .
Harry
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Tom Walker wrote:
>
> A little over a year ago, I posted to the Futurework list a message quoting
> a prediction from a 1957 Life magazine that guided missles loaded with
> letters were being planned for the distant future. Brad McCormick replied,
> pointing out that in London during the V-2 assaults it was said that you
> were safe if you heard it coming because the rocket travelled faster than
> its propaganda.
>
> Tomorrow, at the Moat Gallery of the Vancouver Public Library,
> Futurework/metamorphosis will go on exhibit as part of the Word on the
> Street festival. Futurework/metamorphosis is a "pop-up book" based on my
> reply to Brad McCormick's post (which was a treatment for a pop-up book,
> provisionally titled "Flight of the Postmodern, 1957").
>
> An online version of Futurework/metamorphosis has been launched to:
> http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/mail.htm
> and will remain online for the duration of the VPL exhibition.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Walker
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