{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5567", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5567, "subject": "Minor AEG note", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "2010-03-22T18:01:24+00:00", "last": "2010-03-22T22:51:50+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Allen Short", "address": "washort42 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-03-22T18:01:24+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Minor AEG note", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "In case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the\n\"Renaissance French Toast\" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a\njoke usually attributed to Steven Wright:\n\n??\"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I\nordered French Toast during the Renaissance.\"\n\nOther than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House\nof Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint\nat the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the\nconstant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't\nrecall any significant exploration of it...)" } ] }, { "message_id": "<4BA7B1CB.4010107@colby.edu>", "from": { "name": "Fernando Gouvea", "address": "fqgouvea at colby.edu" }, "date": "2010-03-22T18:07:07+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Minor AEG note", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I met Gene for dinner when he was writing the book, and he told me that \nhe was having lots of fun inserting references to as many kinds of salad \ndressing as he could. This came up because he asked the waiter whether \nthey had Green Goddess salad dressing. I told him one of the local \nrestaurants did have it, and he mentioned the scene in the book. It \ndidn't sound as if there was any special significance to it.\n\nFernando" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 3/22/2010 2:01 PM, Allen Short wrote:\nIn case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the\n\"Renaissance French Toast\" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a\njoke usually attributed to Steven Wright:\n\n \"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I\nordered French Toast during the Renaissance.\"\n\nOther than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House\nof Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint\nat the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the\nconstant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't\nrecall any significant exploration of it...)\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<4BA7F486.1010505@verizon.net>", "from": { "name": "David Stockhoff", "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net" }, "date": "2010-03-22T22:51:50+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Minor AEG note", "in_reply_to": "<4BA7B1CB.4010107@colby.edu>", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Well, it figures Wolfe would notice Green Goddess salad dressing. I suppose there isn't a salad dressing with \"wolf\" in its name, so one works with what's at hand. ;)\n\n\nAnd the time-travel toast joke seems in line with the use of salad dressing names." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:01:24 -0700\nFrom: Allen Short \nTo: urth at lists.urth.net\nSubject: (urth) Minor AEG note\nMessage-ID:\n\t\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n\nIn case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the\n\"Renaissance French Toast\" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a\njoke usually attributed to Steven Wright:\n\n??\"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I\nordered French Toast during the Renaissance.\"\n\nOther than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House\nof Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint\nat the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the\nconstant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't\nrecall any significant exploration of it...)\n\n\n------------------------------\n\nMessage: 2\nDate: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0400\nFrom: Fernando Gouvea \nTo: urth at lists.urth.net\nSubject: Re: (urth) Minor AEG note\nMessage-ID: <4BA7B1CB.4010107 at colby.edu>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed\n\nI met Gene for dinner when he was writing the book, and he told me that \nhe was having lots of fun inserting references to as many kinds of salad \ndressing as he could. This came up because he asked the waiter whether \nthey had Green Goddess salad dressing. I told him one of the local \nrestaurants did have it, and he mentioned the scene in the book. It \ndidn't sound as if there was any special significance to it.\n\nFernando\n\nOn 3/22/2010 2:01 PM, Allen Short wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "In case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the\n\"Renaissance French Toast\" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a\njoke usually attributed to Steven Wright:\n\n \"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I\nordered French Toast during the Renaissance.\"\n\nOther than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House\nof Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint\nat the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the\nconstant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't\nrecall any significant exploration of it...)\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }