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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!gdt!eesshlgb
- From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Cyber
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.185703.11849@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:57:03 GMT
- References: <ARM200-921123134549-2E745D27*@MHS>
- Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK
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- In the referenced article, /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >"Aha! More fodder for the Master Booknamer (well, journeyman if you must
- >know...). Madelaine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time", the first book of a
- >trilogy with "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" and "A Wind in the Door". It is,
- >indeed, a classic.
-
- Ignatz peers over at Windsinger.
-
- "Master Booknamer? Sometimes I worry myself, in that I don't seem to able to
- forget a book I've read. Just mention a plot, and you'll get back title, author,
- publisher, main characters, and a brief review!
-
- "And when I'm near the ole card index and Sf reference books, I can even do
- the old associational thing and name the ones I haven't read...
-
- "Annoying trick. Now all I need is the cash to buy a notebook PC, and I'll
- set up a full database that I can take about with me... It'll come in useful
- in Hay-on-Wye, as I search for those elusive books on the wants list..."
-
- A sheepish grin.
-
- "Er, Space Cadet, your UK e-mail address bounces at me. I've e-mailed your
- postmaster, so I'll just have to hope he can sort it out..."
-
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- Ignatz/Simon...it's a strange world out there, but I'm making it stranger....
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