[UA] Lemur-licious

[John C]

>From: "Chad Underkoffler" <chadu at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [UA] Lemur-licious (was Re: Cultures in animals)
> > Speaking of lemurs, homosexuality, pirates, and obsession, now
> > is a good time to plug Matt Ruff's SEWER, GAS, & ELECTRIC: THE
> > PUBLIC WORKS TRILOGY. It's like ATLAS SHRUGGED, turned inside
> > out, spanked soundly with "'REPENT HARLEQUIN!' SAID THE
> > TICKTOCKMAN," and made to beg for sweet candy.
>
>i feel like i should know what any of these things are, but sadly you lost
>me somewhere around "pirates".

It's a good book, truly.  And Chad forgot to mention the mutant 
sewer-dwelling great white shark named Meisterbrau.

Ruff's other book, _Fool on the Hill_, has some UAish bits.  An animated 
maniquin dressed in bondage gear, a possible avatar of the 
Storyteller...which is an archetype that I really ought to write up one of 
these days.

Anyway.  Another fun book.

John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
     http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim/index.html
   "Yes, I am acquainted with Mr. DePalma," Dr. Hsu said.  "He was
my pupil years ago.  A young man not without talent, but slapdash,
and huckle-muckle in his worksmanship."
   "What did you say?" the mayor asked.
   "He's a jerk," Dr. Hsu Ting Feng said.
           -- Daniel Pinkwater, _The Hoboken Chicken Emergency_

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