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Re: I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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Post by firesteelrain » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 1:48 AM UTC

I loved this story and writing.

Re: I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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Post by gwern » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC

If you can't be awed by science and nature, you can't be awed by magic or alien worlds either... Reminds me of some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...

Re: I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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Post by pentagrama » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 2:17 AM UTC

Wow, this podcast has been bringing science fiction stories to listeners since 2005. [1]

[1] https://escapepod.org/2005/05/12/ep001-imperial-by-jonathon-...

Re: I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC

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Re: I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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Post by rbanffy » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 10:36 AM UTC

beastcoast wrote: post #10

Great short story. The premise reminds me of Simpsons treehouse of horror episode “Time and Punishment” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V

It's one of my favorites. It took me some time to find it after reading it in a pulp magazine a long time ago.

Re: I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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Post by pseudohadamard » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

> Because my folks lived in a little house just around the corner from Harry’s,

Was life going swell and everything was just peachy except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning your mother would make you a big ol' bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast?

(Now try re-reading it without it coming across as a Weird Al voiceover).