QUINT@RUTGERS.ARPA (05/30/85)
From: Anne Marie Quint {/amqueue} <quint@RUTGERS.ARPA>
I have recently (coincidentally) reread Jack of Shadows, and I must
correct a mistake that someone recently made when writing about it.
Unfortunately, I wasn't brilliant enough to write down the name of the
person who made the mistake, so I can't address this properly.
When Jack went Dayside, he was *not* a Professor of Computer Science.
He was a professor of *Anthropology* and other similar social sciences. He
gave lectures on Darkside culture and customs, and was roundly believed to
be making most of it up from whole cloth. He was using the computer
ostensibly to aid his research. No one noticed how much time he used cause
most of it was originally "signed up for" by other people, and when they
cancelled out he would bounce right in and grab the time. It took his boss
something on the order of 3-5 years to figure out that Jack might be a
darksider, and which one he could be.
have fun
/amqueue
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