From: jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Subject: Re: TAN Prospective Authors? (Was Re: Likelihood of Prologue being  posted?)
Date: 21 Sep 2000 02:01:58 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn8sir7v.f45.jsn@ts008d30.chi-il.concentric.net>

On 20 Sep 2000 14:40:00 GMT, cd skogsberg <d97skog@dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:
>Gabriel JT Wright <gabriel@robots.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>surfbaud@waverider.co.uk (Dave Hemming) writes:

>>> The big sticking point for me is that if I don't finish whatever
>>> clever idea I have in one mammoth sitting, I find it very difficult
>>> to then go back and finish it.

>>Mr Hemming, the man from Purley is here to see you now.

>Wasn't he from Porlock?

As the story goes, yeah.
Funnily enough, neither college professors nor engineering managers
take as kindly to updates on this particular "The dog ate my homework"
line, than have generations of poetry scholars.

"Well, boss, it's like this.  Last night, I was starved for
inspiration, so I dropped a bloter of acid... and I came up with this
_bitchin'_ idea to reduce the phase noise of the oscillator by about
20 dB."

<Fishes around in pocket, comes up with half-drawn schematic on back
of acid blotter>

"Except, this guy from Porlock showed up while I was drawing it up,
and by the time he was gone, so was the rest of the schematic in my
head.  So instead, I pounded this nail into a block of wood.  Here,
you can have my notebook, too."

"What?  Piss test?  Why?"


(About, about, in reel and rout
 The death-fires danced at night ;
 The water, like a witch's oils,
 Burnt green, and blue and white.)

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