Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: what is The Stump really? Message-ID: <23300033@convexs> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 13:46:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.23300033 Posted: Fri Sep 20 13:46:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 05:44:41 EDT References: <520@lasspvax.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:lasspvax.UUCP:-52000:convexs:23300033:000:776 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Sep 20 12:46:00 1985 >In "Dream Dancer" by Janet Morris, the first space platform >built above the Earth (about a thousand years before the events in the >book) is called "The Stump." The origin of the name is "lost in >antiquity"... Was this space platform used for ship docking, etc? Did the ships "back" up to it? Do you know a cowboy? Ask him if his "filly" is "stump broke." (And they said to me "You've lost your mind!" and I said "No I haven't, I just can't remember where I left it...") B~)B~)B~)B~)B~)B~)B~) B~) B~) B~)B~)B~)B~)B~) B~) B~) B~)B~)B~)B~)B~)B~)B~) B~) B~) B~) B~)B~)B~)B~) B~) B~) / B~) B~) B~) B~) B~)B~)B~)B~) B~) B~) / B~) B~) ;-) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com