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- From: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Subject: Re: MICHAEL KANDEL! / Marek (Re: request, Stansilaw Lem poem ..for fun)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.142948@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <1992Nov17.230639.492@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov18.013838.13068@news.acns.nwu.edu> <JMC.92Nov17182948@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:29:48 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Nov17182948@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John
- McCarthy) writes:
- > This does not seem to be as difficult as some of the other translations
- > that Kandel did in the Cyberiad. The mathematics doesn't have to make
- > sense, and it doesn't except here and there. The puns in the body of
- > the Cyberiad strike me as fantastic.
- >
- > Too bad Lem and Kandel had a falling out.
-
-
- John -- I love the Cyberiad. (And I think "every frustrum longs to be a cone"
- is one of the great lines in literature.) Could you be more specific about
- which puns you like the best? And how about some details about the falling-
- out between Lem and Kandel?
-
-
- Marie Coffin
-