(urth) The End of RTTW
Jeffrey Brent McBeth
mcbeth at broggs.org
Fri Mar 20 04:42:32 PDT 2009
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:48:48PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>
>> Possibly to the godfather of all generation-ship stories, Robert
>> Heinlein's
>> "Orphans of the Sky." The common greeting on that ship, and one of the
>> last lines of the book, is "Good eating!"
>
> .....
>
>
> That's beautiful.
>
> And it might even be right.
>
> I mean, as well as being Godly Fishers Of Eyeballs spreading the Gospel.
Those are pretty cool. I had jumped to the "Good Hunting" from
Kipling's The Jungle Books, but there really isn't much reason to like
mine.
Jeff
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