The End of RTTW

Jeffrey Brent McBeth · 20 Mar 2009, 11:42 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: mcbeth at broggs.org (Jeffrey Brent McBeth)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:42:32 -0400
Subject: (urth) The End of RTTW
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:48:48PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>
>> Possibly to the godfather of all generation-ship stories, Robert  
>> Heinlein's
>> "Orphans of the Sky." The common greeting on that ship, and one of the
>> last lines of the book, is "Good eating!"
>
> .....
>
>
> That's beautiful.
>
> And it might even be right.
>
> I mean, as well as being Godly Fishers Of Eyeballs spreading the Gospel.

Those are pretty cool.  I had jumped to the "Good Hunting" from
Kipling's The Jungle Books, but there really isn't much reason to like
mine.

Jeff

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