>Hi Nadya,
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>>I suggested -1000 from the beginning. Don't know who is Mel Brooks, but let's remember Rip Van Vinkle (?), for example :)
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>Mel Brooks used to do a hilarious bit about a 2000 year-old man. It was in the format of a news interview, I think. It's been quite awhile since I heard it.
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>>BTW, do you read 'The door in summer' R. Hainlain (I definitely misspelled his last name and perhaps the name of novel, since I read it in Russian)? This was one of my favorite...
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>Could that be Robert Heinlein? I've not read or heard of 'The door in summer', but he has written many books. I've read quite a few, but too little time. <g>

Hi Bill,

Yes, you're right. I knew, I misspelled it. Thanks to you, I found this info:
The Door Into Summer, Doubleday, 1957.
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, invents an all-purpose robot and is shanghaied into suspended animation for thirty years by his business partner and his fiancee. He returns by way of time machine, rescues his cat, starts a rival company, proposes a future marriage to a twelve- year-old, and returns to the future to reap his reward (serialized in Fantasy & Science Fiction, October, November, December 1956).

http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1872/novel.htm

I found Heinlein for myself just few years ago and I loved his books. Should read them in English, though...