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Peter Westlake · 15 May 1998, 11:57 · from whorl-v0008.mbox · original

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From: Peter Westlake <peter at harlequin.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v008.n042
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:57:44 +0100
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At 08:37 1998-05-15 -0400, Alice Turner wrote:
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>>Oh my.  "Two-headed **pho*"!  I love it!  Someone really needs to confront
>>Wolfe with that one.
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>Huh? Can one of you explain?
>
>-out-of-it alga-

Ty-pho-n or Za-pho-d Beeblebrox. Zaphod's starship "Heart of Gold" in the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a ship's computer called Eddy.

Of course, Typhon didn't start out in a starship in tBotNS, and I don't
know whether tBotNS or HHGG was published first. The _Whorl_ is long
after Eddy the computer, of course.

 -- Spectacled bear.

Peter Westlake, Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambs CB2 5RG.

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