Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:36:02 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Talking SF, oh my;  was:  time travel
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Lee Strong poured forth:
>	Depends on what you're trying to do.  Milk has a sedative effect =
(on
>most people) so you can read this stuff without throwing an innocent book
>across the room.

Sword of Shanara is not an innocent book.

mjw

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:38 PM
>To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Talking SF, oh my; was: time travel
>
>Lee Strong fired off this:
>>	Ah, that explains these strange markings...!
>>	Actually, I am generally familiar with the Shaver Mystery and the
>>deros, which I first encountered in H. Beam Piper's _The Cosmic
>>Computer_/_Junkyard Planet_, a book that changed my life.  The deroes =
=
>also
>>show up in Dungeons & Dragons, which closes the loop on another thread =
in
>>this chat.  One of my hobbies is reading "borderline" stuff such as =
>Shaver,
>>von Daniken, Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, the Philadelphia Experiment,=

>>time travel, Spear's New Motor, and similar stuff.  This, in turn, =
bleeds
>>into theosophy, Urantia, Black Muslim theology and the like.  Interesting=

>>stuff provided you drink lots of milk first.
>
>Think I'd go with the Guinness myself, rather than the milk . . .
>
>mjw
>