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- From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
- Subject: Re: Choose a present!
- Message-ID: <mqm-sk@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 02:32:26 EDT
- Organization: to wound the autumnal city
- References: <81kn5bp.rdc@netcom.com> <OSA.92Sep3154741@wilbur.unh.edu> <1992Sep4.040422.28735@epas.toronto.edu>
- Keywords: why am i bothering?
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- In article <1992Sep4.040422.28735@epas.toronto.edu> zgilbert@epas.utoronto.ca (Zvi Gilbert) writes:
- >
- >I hate to be a DelanyGeek, but...
- >
- >(Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska) writes:>
- >>"RdC" == Rachel Dafni Christy <rdc@netcom.com> writes:
- >>
- >>RdC> IN SOC.CULTURE.JAPAN jwd@briones.ced.berkeley.edu (John Wilbrand
- >>RdC> Dahlgren) writes:
- >> ^^^^^^^^
- >>to wound the autumnal city. And I thought it was purely science
- >>fiction. I have come to
- >
- >Sigh.
- >
- >The book is DHALGREN. The "h" is before the "a".
- >
- >Why does everybody in the goddamn world make this mistake?
-
- ... because in six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes
- after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.
-
- For those of you who were wondering, _Dhalgren_ is one of the reasons I got
- a tattoo featuring a scorpion. For those of you who weren't, I got it
- because my older brother was in the Scorpions, and I got it to remember
- him by when he died in a plane crash.
-
- ljd
-