Xref: utzoo news.misc:2470 misc.misc:4253 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: news.misc,misc.misc Subject: Re: Creative site names Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 88 09:23:42 GMT References: <431@ubbpc.uucp> <3774@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Followup-To: rec.arts.books Organization: Earth Station Avernus Lines: 19 In <3774@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, Bruce McLaughlin writes: > In article I wrote: > > Therefore I have 'snark' and 'golux' (the latter from > >James Thurber's _The_Big_O_), ... > > Actually, the golux is from Thurber's _The_Thirteen_Clocks_, and if you > don't believe me, I'll slit you from your guggle to your zatch!! :-) Aaargh! I believe you. See, I read _The_Thirteen_Clocks_ and _The_Big_O_ in an edition back to back and have tended to transpose the titles when thinking about them, ever since. Wonderful stories. I rather identified with the Golux, myself. Some litcrit type should do a semiotic comparison of him with James Branch Cabell's Horvendile... -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718