From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 3 11:21:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD7C37B409 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.142.238.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.142.238]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21325; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BBB5724.62CC952D@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:21:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kehlog Albran? References: <20011002154620.A12444@lpt.ens.fr> <20011002192857.A22031@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > Does anyone know the history of Kehlog Albran's "The Profit"? > > > > "Kehlog Albran" is almost certainly a fictive person or a pseudonym, > > along the lines of Kurt Vonnegut's "Kilgore Trout". Think breakfast > > cereals... > > That's obvious enough. It's a spoof of Kahlil Gibran. But who? It's just satire. I've done a number of fictional quotes from books for satire purposes myself; I occasionally see them floating around in people's signatures, without attribution. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message