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Re: GOBBLEDYGOOK By R. Fay
Posted: April 20, 2011, 11:19:57 AM
by Lester Curtis
I'm most proud of this line: "While the bumox skip across the fwa", because of the word "fwa". Not only is it a made-up word, it also contains a combination of letters that you don't really find in English.
Not commonly, maybe, but -- "fwa" is part of "awful" spelled backwards . . . also part of "hal
fway."
I don't get much fun out of nonsense words . . . a girlfriend of mine used to like to call me a "stick in the mud."
Still, nice job. You have indeed taken a mundane verse and enlivened it with fantasy.
Re: GOBBLEDYGOOK By R. Fay
Posted: May 01, 2011, 12:11:18 PM
by Lester Curtis
TaoPhoenix wrote:I am surprised that you started with a Vogon inspiration. The first thing to come to my mind is the Mimsy Were the Borogoves story.
Broadly, we are calling it "nonsense" here, but any advanced concept becomes indistinguishable from nonsense, before you can get it working enough to be magic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves
And someone managed to put the story online too.
http://mimsyweretheborogoves.webs.com/
P.s. Yikes, we're coming up on the 70th Anniversaries of those Golden Age stories!
Wow, I loved that story! Thanks for the delightful gift.
It's May Day, by the way; we should all be out doing absurd and/or vaguely obscene things with trees.