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This one I'd argue against being set in the present. The whole concept of "deconstructing" a highway in a way that uses philosophical methodology just screams "science fiction set in the future". It's been a while since I read it, so there might be clues that I've forgotten about. TR 22:39, October 4, 2011 (UTC)

If not the future, some bizarro world where time has no meaning. This story annoyed me much as TWF annoyed TR. Turtle Fan 23:10, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
As I recall (its been a while for me too), the society is pretty much our own. AH with a bizarro twist that allows highway deconstruction? However, I do not feel strongly about including it as a present day story.
All right by me, then. Turtle Fan 23:32, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
I found it mildy amusing and not at all annoying. ML4E 23:28, October 4, 2011 (UTC)
Eh, to each his own. I didn't really mind TWF. It was no LatA, to be sure, but it was no SIStGTRotG, either. Turtle Fan 23:32, October 4, 2011 (UTC)

Bump. What say you TR? You seem to feel strongly on this one. ML4E 21:27, October 5, 2011 (UTC)

Eh, leave it be. Your arguments are persuasive, and, upon further review, aside from the philosophical conversation among the workers that begins the whole thing, there isn't anything that suggests the "deconstruction" process is uniquely futuristic. TR 23:57, October 5, 2011 (UTC)

All right then. It occurs to me that a simpler way to view it is that the story is fantasy rather than SF or AH. No reason "deconstruction" can't work the way "incantations" do. ML4E 23:59, October 6, 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I suppose that works. The more I think of it, the harder a time I'm having filing it under a subdivision of speculative fiction. Turtle Fan 01:38, October 7, 2011 (UTC)
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