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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:38:57 EDT
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Subject:  Matter transmission

Michael Kurland wrote a very funny short story which examined
several possible problems with m.t. during its early development.
The story is called "Small World", and I have it in a paperback short
story collection called "Two Views of Wonder".  In it,
such problems as one guy going in and two coming out (at different
destinations), a person whose amino acids are all switched right-
handed for left-handed so he can't digest Earth food anymore, and a
wife who sues the company because her husband emerged from the
transporter without a soul, are raised.  Some problems
are solved (like the problem of Arabs who go to San Francisco, eat at
a posh restaurant and then recite the phrase 'Ay Kan-nod Pai'so that
they can spend two weeks of luxury eating prison food).  The man
whose soul got lost in transit is declared a found object, therefore
chattel of the M.T. company.  Other problems are left unsolved.