Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:25:41 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kehlog Albran? Message-ID: <20011003202541.D71943@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3BBB5724.62CC952D@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:21:24AM -0700 References: <20011002154620.A12444@lpt.ens.fr> <xzp7kuehrzw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20011002192857.A22031@lpt.ens.fr> <3BBB5724.62CC952D@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Oct 3, 2001 at 11:21:24: > 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. Yes. But do you know who is responsible for this particular satire? Or are you saying, the book is not the work of an individual, never existed in hard copy and just grew out of the idle time of random netizens such as yourself? The moonboy webpage did suggest that it existed, if I remember right; I've found a couple of other obscure references on the web, not giving much information. I thought it was probably a short-lived cult item which made its way into fortune files around the time unix was being written... R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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