From:	Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject:	The New Big Baddie
Date:	Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:09:48 -0700

> From: Scott Wheelock <iscottw@*****.nb.ca>

> (oh yeah, Doc'....you
> were irritated by the near-constant use of the word 'Frig' in that
> book...I think it was meant to inject a little Maritime flavour. Not
> that we all go 'round spouting 'Frig' and 'aboot'....well, okay, we do
> say 'aboot.'

Nope, that was me. I get irritated by the near-constant use of almost
*any* word in a novel, but the more unusual the word, the more
irritated I get. I call it "Niffleheim Syndrome" after the first
time I really noticed it, in H. Beam Piper's "Little Fuzzy" (which
is otherwise a fantastic book, BTW).

Hmm...fuzzies...new metahuman race...

Nah.

--Rat

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