11-December-2003, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by daver
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Originally Posted by mike alexander
Whew!
daver is correct. Gomez by Cyril Kornbluth.
Your turn, daver.
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I was poking around on Amazon trying to get better confirmation; The Best of C. M. Kornbluth comes highly recommended. Maybe i'll get it for my next plane trip.
I'll give a longer quote--i think it should be fairly easy:
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"Wilbur Whately," he began, "this court is proud to announce that
you have been unanimously acquitted of the charge of political
irresponsibility, and of unjustified and excessive atrocity.
"There was one dissenting vote on acquitting you of the charge of
political irresponsibility; one of the associate judges felt that the late
unmitigated scoundrel, Austin Maverick, ought to have been
skinned alive, an inch at a time. You are, however, acquitted of
that charge, too."
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Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror has a character with that name, at least.
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