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From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Here's another book that needs identification:
Message-ID: <339@zinfandel.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 15:22:17 EST
Article-I.D.: zinfande.339
Posted: Fri Feb 15 15:22:17 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Feb-85 04:36:38 EST
References: <578@topaz.ARPA> <776@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA
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Summary: 

In article <776@ukma.UUCP> red@ukma.UUCP (Red Varth) writes:
>This book starts out about a professor whose wife has left him. He gets
>depressed one night, and tries to commit suicide. He's saved by his hat.
>His wife is a nurse, I think. 

etc. etc. 

This book is "Mindkiller" by Spider Robinson.  It's much better than
the plot 'synopsis' makes it sound.  (Nothing personal, I don't think I could
do much better if I hadn't read it just 6 weeks ago...)

Part of the novel (where the 'other fellow' breaks into the apartment where 
the woman is commiting suicide by droud) was published in Omni and anthologized
as 'God is an Iron'.  See, if a felon commits felony, an iron commits irony...

Anyone know the etymologies of 'droud' and 'tasp'??

	
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