Every time they played “Nine to Five” on the radio this week it turned into an unstable earworm that kept slipping into the adjacent attractor in music-space for “Heart of Glass”.
But now I just learned that Dolly Parton did a *cover* of “Heart of Glass” in 2023 featuring Debbie Harry, and after listening to *that* the two attractors just gave up their separate existence and decided to merge completely.
Greg Egan
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