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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Flying Sorcerers
Message-ID: <394@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 16:25:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: cepu.394
Posted: Tue Oct 23 16:25:02 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 09:06:52 EDT
References: <3951@decwrl.UUCP> <134@whuxi.UUCP>
Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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Summary: 

In article <134@whuxi.UUCP> rcmcc@whuxi.UUCP (MC_CONNELL) writes:
>If I remember correctly, the natives kept
>referring to the lead character as "Purple."
>
>  "Purple" <- As-i-mauve <- Asimov
>
>is my interpretation.

Specifically his (the Human character's) translating machine renders
his name in the lanuguage of the natives of the planet as:

"as a purple shade of gray"->"as a mauve"->Asimov, nifty pun.

The story is told from the point of view of one of the natives.
-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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