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- From: rachel@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Rachel M. Kadel)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,,rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
- Message-ID: <TiP6VB2w164w@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:52:52 EST
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
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- > In article <UfBHAiS00VAu4GcUcD@andrew.cmu.edu> gh26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory
- > >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
- >
- > 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?
-
- The only thing that occurs to me is that in _So Long and Thanks For All
- the Fish_, by Douglas Adams, in chapter 24, when Arthur Dent is
- unexpectedly flying, it says the following:
- He tried not to think about the ground, what
- an extraordinarily big thing it was and how
- much it would hurt him if it decided to stop
- hanging there and suddenly fell on him. He
- tried to think nice thoughts about lemurs
- instead, which was exactly the right thing
- to do because he couldn't at that moment
- remember precisely what a lemur was, if it
- was one of those things that sweep in great
- majestic herds across the plains of wherever
- it was or if that was wildebeests, so it was
- a tricky kind of thing to think nice thoughts
- about without simply resorting to an icky sort
- of general well-disposedness toward things,
- and all this kept his mind well occupied while
- his body tried to adjust to the fact that it
- wasn't touching anything.
- I now return you to your regularly scheduled flames about homosexuality,
- unless you're reading this on alt.fan.lemurs, in which case I now return
- you to your regularly scheduled weirdness. (On second thought, this is
- weirdness, although not regularly scheduled. Whatever.)
-
- Rachel Meredith Kadel
-
- There's an infinite number of monkeys at the door wanting to show us the
- script to Hamlet they've worked out...The school won't even LISTEN to me
- , much less let me speak for it...rachel@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us
-