Vance and Tokien as influences on D&D

Dave Lebling · 10 Jun 2007, 01:14 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:14:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) Vance and Tokien as influences on D&D
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Adam Thornton wrote:
> Imagine my delight upon finding, early on in _Lolita_, that 
> prostitutes were referred to as _grues_.  The Great Underground Empire 
> will, I fear, never look quite the same to me.
Aha! The French "grue" is "crane" (both the bird and the lifting 
device). I suspect that's where Nabokov got it (the bird, I would 
suspect, though I suppose "lifting device" might apply as well).

Imagine my surprise when I first visited Montreal and found in the 
Yellow Pages "location des grues" ("crane rental"). One hopes they are 
rented only in daylight.

Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

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