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From: BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #409
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 13:39:33 EDT
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From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA>

> Chuq Von Rospach writes:
> that goes "Imagine if you can -- and you will need a fertile
> imagination indeed -- a one-tonne angry boar hog with sharp tushes
> and mean dispositions."
> 
> I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be sat upon by that
> animal..... You don't suppose they really meant tusks, do you???
> *giggle*
> 

Not to spoil your fun or anything, but ``tush'' is a slightly rare variant
on ``tusk''.  You don't even need to look in the Oxford English Dictionary
to find it -- my American Heritage Dictionary of All But the Most
Interesting English Words has it. 
Some authors who use pre-20th-century language (E.R. Eddison I
know, probably Dunsany and Cabell) use the word.  


>  (Gordon Letwin, who is someone else, asks:)
>  I'm looking for the title/author of a SF-fantasy novel in which a
>  modern man encounters the Norse mythical gods (while he's freezing
>  to death, I think.)  He's carried across the Bifrost where they're
>  getting ready for Ragnarok - the final battle with the Frost Giants.
>  He helps them defeat the FG's with an atomic bomb...
>  

I can't remember the title -- something with a horn in it I think --  but
the author was Poul Anderson, and the year 1957 suggests itself.  I remember
reading it and wondering if it was the same Poul Anderson.  

> I thought it was a good read when I was 14, and I'd like to try it
> again.

(-8 Well, I hope you're not much older than fourteen now. 8-)  I thought it was
pretty silly; but I was too old to enjoy fun things at the time.

Bard the Anthro Gargoyle
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