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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
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Subject: Re: re: narapoia - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 22:28:13 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Jan 20 21:15:00 1984

There are at least two conflicting definitions of the word "narapoia."  One
of these, as Tom Harris points out, is "the feeling that you are out to get 
the Universe."  (Narapoia was the name used for a well-known TRAVELLER
play-by-mail campaign.)  The other comes from a science-fiction short story
in which one character is convinced that unknown persons are following him
around with the intention of doing him *good*.  

Personally, I prefer the first.

Scott Renner
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