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- From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
- Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174016.8420@pony.Ingres.COM>
- References: <karnik.727921002@exa>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:40:16 GMT
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- From article <karnik.727921002@exa>, by karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik):
- > In <Jan24.195237.27606@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
- >
- >
- >>"Psmith. I remember what happened there. I called Baxter in Chapter 1 Rupert
- >>Baxter [Leave it to Psmith] and when I got to that scene where Psmith tells Eve
- >>his name I felt it was a question of either going right back through the book
- >>and changing Baxter's name - which I didn't want to do, as Rupert Baxter seemed
- >>so right - or assuming that nobody would remember 'Mike' [the earlier book in
- >>which Psmith makes his debut] and giving Psmith another name. I think Rupert
- >>Eustace Ronald Psmith would be okay!"
- >
- > Maybe my memory cells have been leaking, but wasn't 'Mike' the
- > name of Psmith's roommate in "Enter Psmith"?? The star batsman for their
- > school team?
- >
- >>-kannan
- >
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neeran Karnik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- > Dept. of Computer Science, | Email: karnik@cs.umn.edu
- > University of Minnesota | karn0001@student.tc.umn.edu
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 'Enter Psmith' was the second half of 'Mike', later published separately.
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