Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:00:51 -0500 (CDT) From: rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kehlog Albran? Message-ID: <m15ovwZ-004MdZC@servalan.servalan.com> References: <20011002154620.A12444@lpt.ens.fr> <xzp7kuehrzw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20011002192857.A22031@lpt.ens.fr> <3BBB5724.62CC952D@mindspring.com> <20011003202541.D71943@lpt.ens.fr> <3BBB6A1C.DD1E2C69@mindspring.com>
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In servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-chat Terry Lambert writes:
>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.
It exists. I've got a copy. Price/Stern/Sloan publishers, ISBN
0-8431-0260-8. Probably heinously out of print by now. It's a 1983
printing; the copyright page says "Copyright 1973 Price/Stern/Sloan
Publishers"
>> 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".
Nope; the copyright page doesn't say who the real author is, but I'd bet it's
comedic writer Roger Price, as other stuff of his appeared from that publisher
(and, I think, he was the "Price" in Price/Stern/Sloan). Price is the guy
responsible for, amongst other things, the (in)famous "Ship Arriving Too Late
To Save a Drowning Witch" drawing.
The back cover blurb describing the fictitious Kehlog Albran is amusing:
KEHLOG ALBRAN (1933-1927)
The author was a lifelong member of the Diner's Club and did much of his most
creative writing there. His style was that of a man with a much large brain.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, much of his earlier work was published in his native
dialect in which language he is still greatly revered. In an area
embracing several hectares in that city, he is still looked upon as a demi-god.
His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in Quito, Ecuador. His artistic
and literary style have been compared by Chester Gould to the work of Ernest
Bushmiller and by Bushmiller to the work of Gould. Upon moving to America,
his great desires were to write in his adopted language, English, to make a
million dollars, and to retire from pseudo-philosophy so that he might open a
chain of laundromats. It is the world's loss that he never succeeded in writing
in English.
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