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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: Kehlog Albran?
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
[ ... ``Kehlog Albran's "The Profit"'' ... ]

> 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?

Yes, that's what I'm saying... I'm willing to be presented with
a copy, and proven wrong, though.

> 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...

If it ever existed, it would probably have been a product
of Harvard's "National Lampoon", like "Bored of the Rings".

-- Terry

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