@RUTGERS.ARPA:jpa144@cit-vax (04/20/85)
From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke) Ephrayim J. Naiman (pegasus!naiman@topaz.arpa) writes: > All I remember is that some experiment went haywire and the world > keeps reliving the same day over and over again. The people spend > the first part of every day remembering their situation through > hints they left themselves the day before. There was a Philip Dick short story something like this (I can't remember the title! Bibliography is but a minor hobby with me.) The town in the story (not the whole world) is an artificial recreation of a real town, and some company uses the people (who constantly relive the same day, with variations) as test subjects for new advertising techniques. The story concerns one man who, of course, figures out that Something Is Wrong and eventually escapes the town, only to find the edge of the enormous (to him) table that the model city is sitting on . . . There was another Dick story about people who enter the bodies of Barbie and Ken dolls for relaxation. Normally they forget who they really are while in the doll bodies, but one group of people have little notes pasted to the bathroom mirrors in the Barbie play-houses; the notes say (for example) "YOU ARE NOT KEN. YOU ARE BOB DOBBS, A REAL HUMAN BEING". These people preferred to live in the fantasy world as themselves. Does this help? Does anyone know the titles of these stories? --Peter Alfke (jpa144@cit-vax)