Re: Reality Checkpoint

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From: Ben Newsam
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 00:00

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doug@akula.demon.co.uk "Doug Hall" writes:

> Clive D.W. Feather (clive@stdc.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : Ben Newsam  <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> : > BUT: Reality Checkpoint is NOT in the centre of Parker's Piece, it's a
>  small,
> : > insignificant lamp post (fairly) near the edge of the vast Universe of
>  grass.
> 
> : Huh ?
> 
> : The one in the middle is labelled Reality Checkpoint, and everyone I
> : know thinks it is.
> 
> I'll agree with this.. has been ever since I've lived in cambridge,
> a photo even appeared on the front page of the CCAT student guide a year or
> two ago.

If you drew a line between the Hobbs Pavilion and the swimming pool,
you would go quite close to Reality Checkpoint. I think you would agree
that this is nowhere near the centre of Parker's Piece (check on an accurate
map). I lived within sight of the darned thing for two years, and I have
crawled past it on many a drunken night!

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From: Ben Newsam <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reality Checkpoint
Date: 1995/05/29
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