On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, David Silberstein wrote: #the near future. He had forgotten reading Niven's "World of Ptaavs", Pta<vv>s. As I think I just said on another list, the floating-gemination imp strikes again. # "Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You # take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on." # -- Neil Gaiman, trying to counter the notion that Harry Potter is a # "rip" of his own "Books of Magic" graphic novel. And *that* metaphor comes straight out of /////////////////// can be found in fuller expression in Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories". -- Mark M.