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Re: I don't get it
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Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:16:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > > Regardless, does anyone understand the "Aldous--Julian" reference in "Patent
> > > Pending?" If so, could you let me in on the joke?
> I got it. It stuck me all at once.
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> For those who aren't Sci-Fi fans Aldous huxley wrote a book entitled "Brave New
> World." The theme this of this book is the achievement of Utopia through
> reproductive technology, eugenics and mind control.
I should have indicated both that Clarke mentions "Brave New World" by name
within the text of "Patent Pending," but I didn't understand the brother-joke
that you spell out below!
> As for the Julian part, Aldous Huxley's brother was name Julian. Julian was a
> fairly prominant bioligist, a field that one would be in if one were performing
> the deed of eugenics thorugh reproductive technology.
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> So the sentence "The point is that what Huxley and others had talked about,
> Julian actually did" could be interpreted as "What Aldous wrote about, his
> brother Julian actually carried out." A very clever play on words, if a bit
> esoteric (although Clarke is well known to be esoteric at times).
That makes perfect sense! Thanks for helping me out.
Dave!
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| (...) I got it. It stuck me all at once. For those who aren't Sci-Fi fans Aldous huxley wrote a book entitled "Brave New World." The theme this of this book is the achievement of Utopia through reproductive technology, eugenics and mind control. As (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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