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From: judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms)
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Subject: Re: Alien Lowlife in Star Wars
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 07:46:55 EDT
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>Anybody seen an interesting story about a boring race (i.e. us) ?

Margaret St. Clair wrote a story in the '50s or so about a boring race.  It,
and they, were called "Prott."  They did nothing but bore humans.  They were
not humanoid (sorry, I can't think of a boring-race/us story offhand), but
looked like gigantic spacegoing fried eggs.  The story begins with a Prott
discovering a human in a spaceship; the Prott enthusiastically begins telling
the human everything it can think of about "--ing the --."  However, the man
can't make out what the noun and verb in the telepathically transmitted phrase
mean, so the Prott explains some more... and more... and brings equally
enthusiastic friends, all of whom are eager to clarify the human's ideas about
this supremely important activity.  And won't stop...  I feel a spoiler coming
on so I'll stop summarizing here.

Does anyone know where this story appeared, or whether it's still available
somewhere?

Judith Abrahms
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