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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
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Subject: Re: Fourth in a trilogy
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Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 17:18:52 EST
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In article <1766@utcsri.UUCP> tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) writes:
>
>Credit where credit is due.
>
>  It was Isaac Asimov who thought up
>the "fourth book in the trilogy" joke for his Foundation series,
>which predates Douglas Adams fourth book, however his publisher
>Judy Lynn del Rey talked him out of it.

I thought it was Wagner who invented the "fourth in the trilogy."
Of course he wrote the fourth one first...	:-)

(You're probably thinking "Das Rheingold," but actually he wrote
"Goetterdaemmerung" first.  Then came "Siegfried" because
"Goetterdaemmerung" was getting too long, then "Die Walkure"
because "Siegfried" was getting too long, then...)
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Dave Seaman	  					pur-ee!pucc-h!ags