Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:48:29 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: let's try that again - Meteorite and old news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 4/6/2011 2:40 PM >>>
>This story has everything an old pulp fan could want:
>
>http://www.livescience.com/13581-antarctic-meteorite-mineral-wassonite.htm=
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>
>4.5-Billion-Year-Old Antarctic Meteorite Yields New Mineral
>
>Found in Antarctica, a rare meteorite, from the
>asteroid belt, with a new mineral form not previously
>found in nature.

And I immediately thought of "Who Goes There" by Campbell.

Speaking of Campbell:
http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/04/me-and-alfie-part-6-john-w-camp=
bell-dianetics/#more-3667

or: http://tinyurl.com/6y22ola

>Coincidentally, this morning I was just rereading
>The Skylark of Space (1928), having found an old
>paperback of it in a book sale.  In it, a character
>used the phrase "get a wiggle on" - which I had
>never heard outside my family.

And the paperback edition is the 1958 text, revised from the previous =
hardcover editions.

According to Google the phrase "get a wiggle on" is from the 1920s.

mjw