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From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Re: I feel a scream of frustration coming on. . .
Summary: Not about the subject at all
Keywords: gaffa, gaza, huxley, confusion
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Date: 6 Oct 89 04:02:14 GMT
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Really-From: halley!steve@cs.utexas.edu (Steve Williams)


In one of his rare postings, ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) writes:
>
>P.S. I thought Gaffa was a town in Israel. :-) :-)
>     (Just kidding, folks.  Notice the smiley faces?)

I know I recently warned some welcome newcomer never to ask about gaffa
(I was only kidding, of course.  We never tire of the weeks of debate
that follow such questions.), so I'll probably take some deserved flames
for this, but:

Way, way back, before I paid enough attention to the words and certainly
before my eyes were opened right here in Love-Hound Land, I thought that
the phrase (if not the song itself) "Suspended in Gaffa" must be related
to Huxley's book _Eyeless_In_Gaza_.  I still can't think of one without
thinking of the other.  (Like I said, I know better now, so if you're
going to shoot at me, do it for being so dumb in the first place, not
for promoting that view now.)

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