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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books,sci.misc
- Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:28:09 GMT
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- In article <UfBHAiS00VAu4GcUcD@andrew.cmu.edu> gh26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Edward Hans) writes:
- >how many authors can you think of who wrote about lemurs.I mean fiction
- >authors not nature writers.I read an essay about the significance of
- >lemurs in the writing of William S. Burroughs.something to do with
- >heroin using homosexuals.That sounds like a lemur to me.I think if
- >lemurs were marketed that way then maybe there would be more of a push
- >for a National Geographic special about lemurs,maybe staring David Bowie.
- >love spaz
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- Right off hand, I can't think of ANY authors who wrote about lemurs. In
- literature, I mean. I guess authors have written about lemurs from a
- scientific standpoint, but I've never read any serious literature in which
- Lemurs appeared as important characters. Anyone else?
-