VLVL(4)(q) Beam me up, Mr. Sulu

[Otto]

I received this funny e-mail recently.

Otto
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Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.
Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted
a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A
watch unit, and they fled on me.
Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need
(safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to
get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time
to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future
to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space
continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal
location settings (X, Y, Z,) which can be built out of (readily available)
parts here in 2003. Please email me any plans you have. I will pay good
money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have a dimensional warp
generator available, and are 100% certain you have a (safe secure) means of
delivering it to me please also reply with a secure way to contact you. Send
a separate email to me at:
webmaster at custompaintshop.net


Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to
you.

Thank You
Brian Appel


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cyhc-law.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: VLVL(4)(q) Beam me up, Mr. Sulu


> "'It's like Mr. Sulu laying in coordinates, only different' Zoyd
> explained."  (VL, Ch. 4, p. 40)  To get out of the way the obligatory
> Star Trek site: http://www.georgetakei.com/ (Mr. Takei is happy now.)
> Mr. Wheeler tries to explain his out-of-body spying on Ms.
> Gates.  Perhaps a channel surfing analogy would have worked better
> because Ms. Prairie eventually gives him the game-show buzzer and in an
> abrupt manner we break out of our flashback, "'Say hi to 'em up on
> Phantom Creek, OK?'".  (Id.)  These passages also contain a violent POV
> break from Mr. Wheeler to Ms. Prairie, "He nodded and she felt some
> unaccustomed bloom of tenderness . . . ."  (Id.)