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This is Dean McLaughlinDean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion""The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

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This is Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

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This is Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

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This is Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion"Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

Further reading

This is Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

Further reading

This is Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

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This is Dean McLaughlin's "The Permanent Implosion", first published in Analog in 1964. The "hole" is termed a congruency; and the story is the tale of successive attempts by the hero, one Mick Candido a well capper, and his team to plug the leak.

He does not arrive on the scene, he is called by the government. The wind does not stop; it is merely reduced to a light breeze because the hemispheres do not quite fit perfectly, although it is implied that this is a manageable problem that can be dealt with. And he is not asked why he wants the deed and then points to the spigot; someone else points to the spigot and asks what it is and he explains his plan to sell "the emptiest vacuums anywhere in the world" and lay a pipeline "maybe all of the way to the East coast".

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