Claw = Fang? off-topic-ish

David Stockhoff · 28 Nov 2012, 01:52 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:52:17 -0500
Subject: (urth) Claw = Fang? off-topic-ish
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On 11/27/2012 8:44 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> What? no takers? I thought it was an easy question.
>>
>> The phrase that caught my eye was this:
>>
>> SELF-TRANSFORMING MACHINE ELVES OF HYPERSPACE
>>
>> !!!!
>
> Even more:
>
> http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/terence-mckenna/
>
> "Terence McKenna was the Magellan of psychedelic head space, and 
> humanity's first ambassador to the hyperdimensional machine elves of 
> the Eschaton."
>
> One wonders what kind of trashy literature he had been reading.

Yes, indeed. From his writing, he seems to have had enough of a 
classical education to "get" Wolfe's allusions. One must wonder.

I notice his Eschaton comes on December 21, 2012.

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