HW: RE: calvert question

Tigger Tigger at PUDDYTAT.FSNET.CO.UK
Wed Jun 6 16:07:39 EDT 2001


In article <1.5.4.32.20010606193547.006e6898 at pop.pipeline.com>, Stephan
Forstner <stemfors at PIPELINE.COM> writes
>>>Incidently, the Spirit of the P/Age offers this lyric for Greenfly - 'As
>>>their tiny jaws / munch on plan and cause' - I think a case could be made
>>>for 'munch on planet cores' as well.
>
>And on Lord of the Hornets, I believe the line should be
>'Laying antennae-ed troops armed with stings in a paper mine'
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>There are a few surprising errors on that otherwise superb site-
>>
>Superb is right, this is one of the best web-sites I have ever come across
>in terms of design/presentation/use of hyperlinks/etc, let alone the
>content. I'm sure everyone on the list already has this URL but here it is
>anyway <www.thing.de/projekte/future/>
>
>> the most
>>glaring one is in "Ten seconds of Forever", wherein the forests of Venus
>>have become 'duned', rather than 'jewelled' like they used to be in the 70s.
>>Maybe some space bandits stole all the jewels, leaving only sand....
>
>Venus must be the home of the protagonists of Fable of a Failed Race, where
>'this land / That once was green (and) is now all sand'!

That's Earth in the future (Based on Brian Aldiss' 'The Failed Men')

--
David Blair



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