The girl liking sci fi bit was painfully geeky to me, but I think it was a real name drop, a nod of respect, a wink to Wolfe nerds everywhere. <div><br></div><div>I did just find all the threads on this from a few weeks ago and, I must say, I'm glad I brought it up again, so there, ha! Ya'll got that one WAY off track from the get go! Discussion of LOST brought all the lurkers out of the woodwork and no one even chatted about how cool this scene was. Someone brought it up again for a second and I like Mark Aramini's comment: '
<span style>that clip kind of cracked me up. It's like they are saying, if you read and enjoy Gene, cuneiform is no problem.'</span><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Anway, all good fun.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-DOJP<br></font><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Antonin Scriabin wrote:<br>
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Honestly, it's just as likely that they wanted to establish the<br>
character as a geek/nerd and went for the geekiest book they could<br>
think of...especially given the line about a "girl who likes Sci-Fi."<br>
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--<br>
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>
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