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From: runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com
Subject: Mr. Breugel & Mr. Mahler, Freelance Organleggers [was: Tamanous]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:07:39 -0400 (EDT)
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At 01:15 PM 7/25/99 -0500, Patrick Goodman wrote:
::::Call me a traditionalist, but whenever I want to use organleggers
:::: in a game, I use Misters Breugel and Mahler.
::::
::::(And if anyone here catches the reference, good for you.)

:::Gil the ARM? Niven? Something there sounds remarkably familiar,
:::but it's been *years*....

::Breugel was a painter (16th century, IIRC).
::
::Mahler was a composer whose name means "painter" in English.
::
::Music, once composed, can be played on an organ.
::
::Tamanous sells organs.

:<pounds head repeatedly on desk>

You can stop pounding your head on the desk. Gurth's theory, while
interesting and elaborate, is nowhere close.

Anyone else want to take a stab at this?

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