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Subject: Re: Roll-your-own (Alien characters in f
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 23:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 23:47:00 1984
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The GREAT lines from Greg Skinner's article:

>Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma.
	(cute, and users of 'notes' missed it)
>Joy is in the ears that hear.
	(another Saltheart Foamfollower fan!)

The ones that inspire the followup:

>Spock is hardly an alien -- I tend to think of him more as a foreigner
>with different customs.

Spock IS an alien.  It's thrown in our faces early and often; find humans who
can develop the "customs" of telepathy, pon farr and plak tow (the physical
problems during mating season), and green T-Negative blood.  Listen to McCoy
complain about Spock's alien physiology, as well as his philosophy.

Perhaps it's a sign of just how well he's been characterized that you fail
to see him as alien, an outsider.  You know him well enough to count him as
one of your own sociological group, though he would insist on not being
included there.  (Happened often in the closing scenes to the episodes.)
--
	  Stewart Wiener / Princeton Univ. EECS / princeton!tilt!smw
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