A labman asks a Planetary Engineer to bring back some green callistite from the Jovian System. Of course, this reminds us of green Kryptonite.
Fortuitously, this evening I reread the above and also the following:
"We've analysed [some threads] and identified the fabric. It's Crilicon.'
"'Does that come from Krypton?' It was a stupid quip that just slipped out of him.
"Arqua, who obviously didn't read comic strips and didn't know of the existence of Superman, balked."
-Andrea Camilleri, The Paper Moon (London, 2009), 13, p. 184.
I balk at this time of night. I have to stop rereading Poul Anderson because I would want to blog and I don't want to blog. The choice is between Andrea Camilleri and Stieg Larsson, Sicily and Sweden. Tomorrow, back to Anderson and Ganymede.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI might have written "...frowned in puzzlement" instead!
Still slowly rereading THE LORD OF THE RINGS, in conjunction with Hammond/Scull's massive volume of annotations.
And I'm such a geek I'm reading the seventh edition of the US Chess Federation manual OFFICIAL RULES OF CHESS. (Smiles)
Ad astra! Sean