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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: _Stark Naked_
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.194437.12384@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <NICHAEL.92Dec23100408@kariba.bbn.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:44:37 GMT
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- In article <NICHAEL.92Dec23100408@kariba.bbn.com> ncramer@bbn.com writes:
- >
- >Way back, lo these many years, I saw a book called, of all things,
- >_Stark Naked_.
-
- >Anyway, does anyone know this book or, preferably, know where I can
- >find a copy?
-
- >BTW, the subtitle is "A [?????] Fantasy"; does anyone know a name for
- >this type of pun/joke?
-
- Could it be: *Stark naked: a paranomastic odyssey*?
- Random House: 1969
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- by Norton Juster [sounds like one of the characters in it]
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- Illustrated by Arnold Roth.
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- You might have confused "odyssey" and "fantasy" - it's that iota
- subscript locution I imagine.
-
- Keith - not Henry - Morgan
-
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- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-