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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Hey, that's--as we'd have said in an earlier day--pretty neat (nifty? cool? rad? far out? groovy? awesome?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>It truly is a nice 'period' movie, but, holy cow, it's like all the actors are trying to move through a sea of cold syrup and every scene is advancing toward a black hole where t i m e s l o w s d o w n t o a s t o p . . . . . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Like all time travel movies, it also has fatal, irresolvable<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Sans Serif'"> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN>errors in logic. In this case: The watch! He has it because she gave it to him. She had it to give to him because he went back in time and left it there. So she had the watch before it was left with her but when he first showed it to her she hadn't seen it before and asked him where he'd gotten it. So where did the watch enter this Klein Bottle,* this impossible loop?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Okay, I know, it's just a movie.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Spooky and kind of sad watching Chris Reeve moving around healthy, robust, and alive.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Alan Barnard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3><FONT size=+0>Salem, Missouri (W<FONT face=Helvetica>here yesterday's future is here today and, in only two days, tomorrow will be yesterday!)</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>*The Klein Bottle is the closed non-orientable surface with Euler characteristic = 0. It may be obtained by joining opposite ends of a cylinder with a twist, or by attaching two Mobius bands along their boundary circles. The Klein Bottle can not be embedded in R^3. There exist two immersed (self-intersecting) images of the Klein Bottle in R^3 which are not homotopic. <FONT face=Helvetica>With its circle of singularities, a Klein Bottle can be said to exist inside of itself -- especially handy during time-reversals. </FONT>In case you were wondering ... </FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mkurta@adelphia.net href="mailto:mkurta@adelphia.net">Mike Kurta</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=tune4u@earthlink.net href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">tune4u@earthlink.net</A>;<A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 05/21/2005 6:37:56 AM </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: A Tuner In Time</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The location where that movie was shot (Mackinac Island, Michigan), the Grand Hotel, was a customer of mine and I have tuned in that theater many times. (It was not me in the scene, ha ha). I agree the picture is beyond slow moving, but would you believe has a life of its own! Dyed in the wool fans of "Somewhere In Time" gather each year for a weekend at the Grand, with those actors still alive - a cult following, period costumes and all. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Mike Kurta</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Former Grand Hotel Technician</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>