Pat Flannery writes:
It's already been done; in fact there's one that goes back to 360 BC:
http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machines.../dp/0894640399
When not being read, its weight makes it useful as a doorstop.

Thanks for the link!
But just 'cause someone's written something doesn't mean you couldn't as well.
I have the feeling you'd could add plenty of interesting anecdotes that a
straightforward factual history might not include!

I've been posting so much as I've been hobbling around recovering from my leg
surgery earlier this month, when a infected subcutaneous haematoma had to be
removed, leaving a hole in my calf that looks for all the world like a bullet
hole, and goes around an inch into the leg.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are well on your way to recovery.

Given that this is the same leg that needed the big toe amputated a couple of
years back when it went gangrenous, I can see a new career as a pirate off of
Somalia in the not-too-distant future under the name Peg-Leg Pat.

You and OM seem to be shedding body parts. I sincerely hope that is not to do
overexposure to sci.space... groups!

;-)

Dave