rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (06/28/84)
Okay, all you people out there who had a hand in rogue.... I just finished "Time Enough for Love," (yes, I know I'm entirely too old to have just read this, but never mind that). My question is, is that where the idea for a ring called "Lapis Lazuli" came from? If not, where DID it come from? -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh
gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson) (06/28/84)
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Actually, Lapis Lazuli is "An azure-blue, opaque, semi-
precious stone" (_Webster's New World Dictionary_) that the
egyptians used quite a bit in their jewelry, etc. (Remember
the Tutankhamen exhibition?) The character in _Time Enough
For Love_ was named after the stone.
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Gordon hates flames, so send 'em in!ab3@pucc-h (Rsk the Wombat) (06/29/84)
The lapis lazuli is a gemstone.
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"Now wher're you boys goin' with all that beer?"markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (06/29/84)
Lapis Lazuli is a azure blue semiprecious gem stone usually found in africa.
The mineralogical exhibit at any natural history museum should have a sample.
Mark Biggar
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!markbmag@whuxle.UUCP (Gray Mike) (06/29/84)
>Okay, all you people out there who had a hand in rogue.... >I just finished "Time Enough for Love," (yes, I know I'm entirely >too old to have just read this, but never mind that). My >question is, is that where the idea for a ring called "Lapis Lazuli" >came from? If not, where DID it come from? >-- >Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh > Lapis lazuli is a blue semiprecious stone, and has been called by that name longer than Heinlein has been around. Mike Gray, BTL, WH