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- Subject: Re: Good Omens (error?)
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- From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 22:22:29 NZST
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- fmonro@neumann.une.edu.au (F J Monro) writes:
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- > Can this be coincidence, Given the discussion in the book about the
- > proofreading errors in the bible? Were the authors trying to make the
- > first edition worth more by including subtle errors? Or was the proof
- > reader taking revenge for the slanders on his/her proffession? Or
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > perhaps a higher (or lower) power took a hand.....
-
- Or perhaps its just LIFE.
-
- And on the subject of Cleopatra and sitting on a snake. Reference was
- made to it being an adder. More specifically, it was an asp, which she
- clutched to her bosom. As asps are particularly venomous, this was
- an effective [and reputedly painless] way for her to achieve her desired
- objective of death before dishonour. There are no reports on the asps
- view, but I speculate that it would have been very traumatic for ir.
-
-
- Apparently a *SPOILER FOLLOWS* for Small Gods (very minor)
-
- Were the steam engines at Ephebes actually built? If my memory serves
- EITHER there was a steam engine built to open and close very large
- temple doors, or there were plans for same.
-
- In either case, it never caught one because of the greater
- cost-effectivness of slave-power.
-
- Yes, the home of democracy, as long as you're mail and freehold.
-
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- Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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