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RE: NFC: Gregor.
Yes, but you asked the "meaning", not the reference. What is it? Sorry, I
am not familiar with Kafka's work.
Thanks,
Michael Granville
Torrance, CA
granm at cosmodyne_com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua L Wiegert [SMTP:joshuaw at paul_paulsmiths.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 2:33 PM
> To: nfc at actwin_com
> Subject: Re: NFC: Gregor.
>
> Ok, someone won a virtual cookie. :)
>
> end
> ><>
> J. L. Wiegert ICQ UIN: 1918889
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> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Zitnik wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:26:03 -0500
> > From: David Zitnik <daz1 at Ra_MsState.Edu>
> > Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
> > To: nfc at actwin_com
> > Subject: Re: NFC: Gregor.
> >
> > Is ti from Kafka's The Metamorphosis? Gregor Samsa?
> > David
> >
> > Joshua L Wiegert wrote:
> >
> > > Hey All.
> > > Just thought I'd tel everyone about my most recent ... weirdism. :)
> > > Last night, my suitemates and I decided to go "peeping." No, not
> THAT
> > > kind of peeping. :p Peeping as in hunting for the first few wpring
> > > peepers at night. Unfortunately, the temperature dropped and we
> didn't
> > > hear/see/catch any (just as well, the one thing no one figured out
> ahead
> > > of time was what we would do with them once caught. :) However, aside
> > > from finding a nice place where lots of minnows could be found, a few
> > > crayfish, and seeing a pair of beaver, we found Gregor... a large
> (2-3,"
> > > being conservative) predatious beetle. He's now living in a cookie
> tray
> > > on our sink... We threw him and the other catch ( a signel itty bitty
> > > crawdad, a few Trichoptera) in there with some Java Fern, a few hunks
> of
> > > coconut shell and.. ahem the lids off a few jars (Hey, we were
> > > improvising. :)
> > > So far so good.. he killed and ate part of the feeder gldfish we
> threw
> > > in there.
> > > This should be a pretty interesting thing to try, keeping something
> > > like that for a time being.
> > >
> > > To whoever gets the meaning of the bugs name, "Gregor," I grant a
> free
> > > cookie (albeit, a virtual cookie.)
> > > end
> > > ><>
> > > J. L. Wiegert ICQ UIN: 1918889
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