PEACE: One Devil

Michael Straight · 21 Apr 2008, 17:14 · from 2008-April.txt.gz

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From: mfstraight at gmail.com (Michael Straight)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:14:19 -0600
Subject: (urth) PEACE: One Devil
In-Reply-To: <280859.16162.qm at web65702.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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	<280859.16162.qm at web65702.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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The tiny joke, of course, is Wolfe noticing that Tang (which in real
life was probably named because it supposedly tastes "tangy") was also
the name of a Chinese imperial dynasty, and thus something Olivia
might have suggested.

-- Rostrum

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Helen Algmin <helenalgmin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Of course it's Tang!  Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. (I
> kind of assumed that it wasn't called what the drink is called in
> real-life.)

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