WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA (04/19/85)
From: Bob Webber <WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA> > From: dolqci!mike@topaz.arpa (Mike Stalnaker) > Subject: Number of the Beast > Date: 15 Apr 85 15:07:20 GMT > > Am I the only one who enjoyed TNOTB? I hope not. of course not. however, TNOTB is in essence a large joke. people who did not get it think it was a major waste of time and flame. people who did get it realize that you can't explain a joke to someone who didn't get it; so they have less reason to write. > One character there that I couldn't > recognize was the dragon, Sir Isaac Newton. i believe that was the name of one of the Venusians (sp?) (a dragon-like race inhabiting Venus) in one of his juveniles, Star Beast. these sentients "spoke" with humans using a voder (a speech synthesizer that one could play like an accordian). as this memory is over a decade old, take it with a grain of salt. --------------------------------- BOB (webber@rutgers.arpa) -------
plutchak@uwmacc.UUCP (Joel Plutchak) (04/19/85)
In article <1673@topaz.ARPA> WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA writes: >From: Bob Webber <WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA> > >> Am I the only one who enjoyed TNOTB? I hope not. > >of course not. however, TNOTB is in essence a large joke. people who >did not get it think it was a major waste of time and flame. people >who did get it realize that you can't explain a joke to someone who >didn't get it; so they have less reason to write. > And then there are those of us who read it, "got" it, and *still* didn't like it. The joke was largely on us people who spent time and money to listen in on somebody elses private joke. -joel
oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (04/20/85)
In article <1673@topaz.ARPA> WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA writes: >From: Bob Webber <WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA> > >of course not. however, TNOTB is in essence a large joke. people who >did not get it think it was a major waste of time and flame. people >who did get it realize that you can't explain a joke to someone who >didn't get it; so they have less reason to write. Uhm..RAH takes himself too seriously to be able to write a sardonic novel.. It takes somebody like LEM to write the stuff. If we missed something in TNOTB, ah well.. Perhaps somebody will explain what appears to be utter trash.. Than, I will volunteer to explain the literary qualities of "The National Enquirer" :-). Oz (wizard of something or another, no doubt..) Electric: {ihnp4 | allegra | decvax ..}!utzoo!yetti!oz Bitnet: Oz@yuleo -------- [Where you stand on an issue depends on where you sit]
demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) (04/24/85)
> From: Bob Webber <WEBBER@RUTGERS.ARPA> > > > From: dolqci!mike@topaz.arpa (Mike Stalnaker) > > Subject: Number of the Beast > > Date: 15 Apr 85 15:07:20 GMT > > > > Am I the only one who enjoyed TNOTB? I hope not. > > of course not. however, TNOTB is in essence a large joke. people who > did not get it think it was a major waste of time and flame. people > who did get it realize that you can't explain a joke to someone who > didn't get it; so they have less reason to write. > > > --------------------------------- BOB (webber@rutgers.arpa) > ------- Oh brother...give me a break! (Gosh, some people didn't like something that I did OBVIOUS don't know there head from their...feet...so anything they say can be disregarded...) -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo / =|-- = \ = [][][] "...I don't know what this thing does, but it's pointing in your direction."