Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:56:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Elliot <celliot-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Help With "Grok" (fwd)


Not sure this went out before--I've had a little trouble with the e-mail
system today.  See below for my original message (apologies for
misspelling your name, Meting; and apologies for the poor grammar!).

Chris Elliot
CS
GMU



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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:09:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Elliot <celliot-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
To: phillitcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: PLC: Help With "Grok"

Meting,

The title your looking for is, I think, _Stranger in a Strange Land_ by
Robert Heinlein.  I'll have to check the bookshelf at home to make sure,
though.

Chris Elliot
Cultural Studies
GMU

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Metin Aktay wrote:

> Ages ago I read a sci-fi novel centering on a kid rescued from an
> unsuccessful colonisation effort in space and brought back to earth.
> This kid turns out to have mind-over-matter powers which he tries using
> for reforming earth society and sacrifices himself to a mob. The story
> had many deliberate parallels with that of Jesus Christ.
> 
> The verb "to grok" was a central theme of the novel, meaning to
> understand the whole of something, to internalise fully.
> 
> I forgot the author (heinlein, clarke, asimov?) and the name of the
> novel (children?childhood?) and would appreciate it someone could remind
> me who/what they were.
> 
> Thankfully,
> 
> Metin Aktay
> 
> 
> 
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