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- From: rick@sq.sq.com (Rick Innis)
- Subject: Re: Fiery the angel.. Blade Runner
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.162749.25243@sq.sq.com>
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- References: <NS14.93Jan12043243@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu> <C1DnG3.BEz@boi.hp.com> <1993Jan25.044426.12747@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:27:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.044426.12747@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
- >Nathan Otto Siemers (ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: This one has bugging me for a long time.
- >:
- >: Spoken by Rutger Hauer, as Roy in Blade Runner
- >:
- >:
- >: Fiery the angels fell
- >: Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders
- >: Burning with the fires of (Hawk? sounds like.)
- >:
- >: Anyone know where this comes from?
- >:
- >
- > The word is "Orc". I have a vague memory that this was from T.S. Eliott,
- >but I'm probably wrong on this.
-
- If the word is Orc, then it could be from Blake's "America: A Vision", which
- includes a character of that name. I don't have my Norton Anthology of
- English Lit on hand, but will check it up later (unless someone else beats
- me to it.)
-
- --Rick.
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