(urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)

[maru]

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>>One more thing!
>>I was reading in my Star Wars collection t'other day, when, en route
>>to Boba Fett's story in Tales from Jabba's Palace, to see whether I
>>could place anymore of the anecdotes, an excruciating name caught
>>my eye. It was remarkably similar to yours.  A relation?
>>    
>>
>
>The closest possible relation, me. What are you doing reading 
>such trash?
>
>--Dan'l
>  
>
What are you doing writing such trash?

But seriously, when I was younger, I was very much into Star Wars,
(having never got the appeal of Star Trek, nor was I exposed
to D & D. So my geek creds are largely confined to that sector.)
and bought most of the novels.  When I stopped, around the lousy New 
Jedi Order
releases, I had about 70, a pretty comprehensive collection.
Now, recently, I got 'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones'.  One of the stories in it 
was of a fellow
dangling from a cliff, tigers above and below.  The branch he is 
clinging to is slipping.
Suddenly, he sees some strawberrys and eats them.  How sweet they taste, 
he thinks.

There is a story exactly analolgous to it in 'A Barve like that', the 
story I was looking for
to verify the resemblance, when I stumbled on your name.
And that's that.

~Maru
I never did figure out where the pig joke in that story came from though.