Date: 2013-01-09 01:49 pm (UTC)
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (That's It boater)
From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
Robert Bloch's "A Good Knight's Work," obviously a Damon Runyon pastiche, from 1941.

Date: 2013-01-09 02:50 pm (UTC)
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (Default)
From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
(Do I get a prize?)

My method was to listen to a sample of dialogue a few minutes in, choose a relatively high-entropy phrase that sounded like it might have been in the original story, and google. This turned up a couple of pirated copies of the text, without even having to go to Google Books.

Date: 2013-01-14 01:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbdatvic.livejournal.com
The Singularity rewards well-chosen hashing schemata!

--Dave, UNICODE would probably be going a bit too far though

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