Robert Rankin?
I'm sure it rings a bell somewhere, that. Raiders of the Lost Car Park? A Cornelius and Tuppe one at least, I'm sure of it.
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shindig,
Wed 5 Feb 2003, 14:00,
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It all started
in Armageddon the musical, I think.
But pops up all over the place.
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Ijon Tichy,
Wed 5 Feb 2003, 14:04,
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The general electric
bit was Robert Rankin, the rest was mine.
It was a homage...or theft.
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old,
Wed 5 Feb 2003, 14:04,
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I'm pretty sure
it's a recurring theme in many of his books.
A bit like the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic antimatter. Apparently it's a tradition, or an old charter or something...
/coat
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man/child/goblin should be old enough to know better by now,
Wed 5 Feb 2003, 14:07,
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