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From: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Flying Sorcerers
Message-ID: <330@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 22:33:33 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.330
Posted: Fri Nov  9 22:33:33 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 10:20:48 EST
References: <3951@decwrl.UUCP> <134@whuxi.UUCP> <394@cepu.UUCP> <>
Reply-To: msj@gitpyr.UUCP (Mike St. Johns)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: 

In article <> jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes) writes:
>> 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.
>> 
>	And of course, Asimov loves a good ( or bad ) pun!!!
>

Sorry to correct you, but the quote was:

 "As a color, shade of purple-gray" 
 Mike.
-- 
Mike St. Johns
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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