@RUTGERS.ARPA:Fournier.pasa@Xerox.ARPA (04/04/85)
From: Fournier.pasa@XEROX.ARPA According to one of my friends, all the names of the Beast in NotB are indeed anagrams, but of R. A. Heinlein OR HIS PSEUDONYMS. This seems to work. While I read JHEREG and YENDI dutifully when on loan from a friend, I thought, "Nice books, but I'll buy them used, no hurry." I was also unemployed at the time, mind you. BUUTT(aspirated), since I've been on this dl and have been reading SKZB's comments, I am much more inclined to run out and purchase immediately publication notice reaches me, because I have a much better idea of how his mind and humor works, and now I want to see just what he'll do next with this set of characters, or what other characters he'll discover. One of my favorite pieces of humor-but-not-intended-for-same is MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, by Fowler. Screamingly funny in places, and mostly I agree. I have been known to drop an author from my immediate-purchase list if thon persists in using "thusly". Thus is already an adverb, dammit. A. Marina Fournier