Path: mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-pub.bu.edu!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Antinomy (was Re: Antimony) Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 90 01:25:05 GMT References: <200.25eac691@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> <1990Feb28.215046.16612@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 23 In-reply-to: shoulson@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu's message of 28 Feb 90 21:50:46 GMT shoulson@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson) said: > I hate to be such a nitpicker, but in this case you *must* be careful. If > you look at the subject of this article, it says, "Antimony." That word > refers to a chemical element (Sb, number 51 I believe). The word Robinson > used, meaning the dilemma of two equally necessary but mutually exclusive > courses of action or belief, is "Antinomy." See the difference? > I don't mean to burst on after such a long absence just to bitch about > spelling, but it's important here, where there's another word it could be > confused with. Yup. I should have (but didn't) notice that. It's fixed now. [Thanks for nitpicking this one.] ...I'm still not home, so still no ToC. Coming soon :-). --C -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 NETWORK PLANNING CONSTRAINT OF THE MONTH: "You can't send bits over a non-existent link." --Valdis Kletnieks Newsgroups: alt.callahans Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!adam From: adam@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David C. Kaplowitz) Subject: Autherian Legend 8-} In-Reply-To: lewandow@sabertooth.cs.wisc.edu's message of 28 Feb 90 21:43:22 GMT Message-ID: <1990Mar1.010707.26236@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept References: <9002261515.AA05871@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> <9846@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 90 01:07:07 GMT Lines: 18 To reference the new topic in the thread with the same name ... I would like to carry on the works of John Brunner. I would be SR or RAH, but I think that is probably taken by now. If anyone wants to be depresed, please read JB's book The Sheep Look Up. Then go for a walk in the near-by woods. (Don't even _THINK_ of reading it in the middle of NYC or any other Megatropolis. For Philosophy, JB is hard and vicious. A friend of mine would be Harlan Ellison, and boy do we have some interesting discussions. Traveler In Elephants, Dave P.S. Who is Danielle Steel? Is she related to Guenivere Steel from JB's Stand On Zanzibar? TIE Dave -- Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!jarthur!polyslo!decwrl!shelby!lindy!news From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: WHAT AUTHOR I WOULD BE Message-ID: <8256@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Mar 90 01:05:08 GMT Sender: news@lindy.Stanford.EDU (News Service) Lines: 6 CLANK!!! "Kilgore Trout" Clunk. Nick Chopper - my opinion? dont ax! LB>- GE.LJB@Forsythe.stanford.edu Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ccb.ucsf.EDU!robin From: robin@ccb.ucsf.EDU (Robin Colgrove) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re A new topic, Fahrenheit 451 and YOU Message-ID: <9003010705.AA20452@ccb.ucsf.EDU> Date: 1 Mar 90 07:05:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 33 "ooooh! oooh! ooh! oh! h! ! " hearing gary's gambit re a Fahrenheit 451 redux, robin can restrain himself even less than usual. "Great books are one of my all time fav topics! Books are right up there with chocolate ice cream on the hit parade of great advances of civilization! No question who I'd be if I were a book... 'Walden' and 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' Henry David Thoreau If we restrict it to fiction, then 'Las Adventuras de Don Quixote' Miguel de Cervantes For modern fiction 'Labyrintos' Jorge Luis Borges For Science Fiction 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith' Paul Linebarger Actually, the book that commands my deepest devotion is 'On the Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man' Charles Darwin But here it is the argument rather than the prose that's wonderful. Looking back over my shoulder into realspace, I scan my bookshelf to see if there are other works I would lay down my life for. 'The Socratic Dialogs' Plato Leaps immediately to my attention. Probably others, I'm blanking on now. No doubt, if push came to shove, I'd memorize ALL these books before allowing one word to slip into the darkness. oooooh. what a great topic. I gotta go read now..." And with that, he floats out of the bar, a blissful abstraction absorbing his usually bemused and bedraggled countenance. Path: mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-pub.bu.edu!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: _Antinomy_ : the Table o' Contents Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 90 07:59:59 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Distribution: alt Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 38 Okay, I'm home, I've got the book here, and awaaaaaay we go! First: the one other story in both _Antinomy_ and _Melancholy Elephants_ is "No Renewal." That said... Introduction: Welcome to the Antinomy Mine 1 Antinomy afterword to "Antinomy" 2 Half an Oaf two puns 3 Too Soon We Grow Old two songs 4 When No Man Pursueth afterword to "When No Man Pursueth" 5 Nobody Likes to be Lonely interleaf 6 Satan's Children a triple Feghoot and a cartoon 7 Apogee two more puns 8 No Renewal afterword, an illo, and a weapons list 9 Overdose two more songs 10 Tin Ear foreword to "The Magnificent Conspiracy" 11 The Magnificent Conspiracy Appendix 312pp, total. If you see it, buy it. My copy's not in great shape to collect, but books are to READ. -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 NETWORK PLANNING CONSTRAINT OF THE MONTH: "You can't send bits over a non-existent link." --Valdis Kletnieks Path: mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!bucsf!gilly From: gilly@bucsf.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: WHAT AUTHOR I WOULD BE Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 90 16:00:08 GMT References: <8256@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: gilly@bucsf.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) Organization: Boston University Lines: 9 In-reply-to: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu's message of 1 Mar 90 01:05:08 GMT I think I'll take Richard Bach... -- +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ | Gilly Rosenthol |"Don't dream it, be it" -The Rocky Horror Picture Show | | gilly@bucsb.bu.edu |"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. | | | L'essentiel est invisible aux yeux." -Le Petit Prince | +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!dkarres From: dkarres@hubcap.clemson.edu (Dean Karres) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re^2: WHAT AUTHOR I WOULD BE Message-ID: <8198@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 1 Mar 90 17:11:55 GMT References: <8256@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC Lines: 12 gilly@bucsf.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) writes: >I think I'll take Richard Bach... Sorry, all sales are final. dean...k... -- || dean...k... || "...With tremblin' hands he gave his gold to the || wild colonial boy..." from John Doolan dkarres@hubcap.clemson.edu || Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!think!bbn!granite!mandel From: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Re A new topic, Fahrenheit 451 and YOU Message-ID: <1990Mar1.194229.29371@granite.cr.bull.com> Date: 1 Mar 90 19:42:29 GMT References: <9003010705.AA20452@ccb.ucsf.EDU> Reply-To: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Lines: 19 In article <9003010705.AA20452@ccb.ucsf.EDU> robin@ccb.ucsf.EDU (Robin Colgrove) writes: > ... >For Science Fiction > 'The Best of Cordwainer Smith' > Paul Linebarger Hey, another lover of...! COUNT TWO THINK BLUE There was a true artist. And artisan. "Cordwainer" is a worker in leather, as "Smith" is a worker in metal. -- -- Mark Mandel (InterNet: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com) /* My employer is not responsible for anything I say, do, think, or eat. */ Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!think!yale!cs.yale.edu!evans-ron From: evans-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Marty Hale) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: WHAT AUTHOR I WOULD BE Message-ID: <17502@cs.yale.edu> Date: 1 Mar 90 20:27:29 GMT References: <8256@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: evans-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Marty Hale) Organization: Welcome Wagon, Tenctonese Division Lines: 13 Who would I like to *be*? Jeez, I dunno. Most of the writers I can think of led uncomfortable lives. :-> I'll be responsible for Rita Mae Brown, George Bernard Shaw, and Joseph Campbell. (sorry to leap out of the dark, but I can't resist an interesting question! maybe I'll talk about why I'm here later...) =*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*= Marty Hale "...the big boned gal, ain't no doubt she's a c/o evans-ron@cs.yale.edu natural, reelin' and a-rockin' and she's 139 Salem St., Boston, MA 02113 yellin' out for more" -- k.d.lang Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu (Steven Stadnicki,,,) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: I've got Author Responsibilities Message-ID: <1990Mar1.232610.15256@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 1 Mar 90 23:26:10 GMT Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 21 Hmm... are we restricted to book authors, or are other stories acceptable? Actually, I think I'd like to be responsible for one book, _The Once and Future King_ (but *boy* would that be a pain to memorize), and all of Harry Chapin's songs... sometime I'll have to see if I can post the lyrics to "Better Place to Be", the ideal Callahan's song if I ever heard one... Steven Stadnicki stadnism@clutx.clarkson.edu "How must it feel To be surrounded by a Nothingness That extends farther than the mind can comprehend? An unscaleable wall An insurmountable obstacle Feeling that no matter where you reach You will find Nothing You will grab Nothing And you will pull Nothing back to you How must it feel? I can tell you..."