Klarinet Archive - Posting 000640.txt from 2004/11

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Cthlharinet (was: undercut tone holes)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:26:35 -0500


I wrote,
>Or [is] he caught in an historetic loop that
>always brings him back to a point in time
>when somebody's posting something he
>doesn't like? Or are we all caught in a chronic
>historesis but we don't fully realize we're in it
>because our memories cycle back along the
>loop, too?

Erik Tkal wrote:
>>Oh Lelia, you had me seriously rolling on the floor
>>with that one! And I like your unintentional misspelling
>>of hysteresis - it actually makes more sense your way...
>>Definitely some ST-TNG material here. :-P

Mark Charette wrote,
>>>Unintentional misspelling? I think not! Lelia knows her
>>>vocabulary.

LOL--thanx for the kind words and for changing the subject header, which I
should've done (point taken...). As it happens, you're both right. The
spelling was intentional, but it also seems to have been a mistake. (Oh,
well, I'd already proved I'm a nerd by admitting to owning an alto
clarinet, so....) I thought I was lifting a clever coinage from a 1980
"Dr. Who" episode, "Meglos." Now, though, I'm not so sure. It may be
that I'm hearing the word wrong on the soundtrack. (I'm American; they're
speaking English; I taped the episode off late-night PBS and it's a rather
poor-quality copy. Excuses, excuses....) I don't have the "novelization"
(speaking of coinages, I hate that one...) by Terence Dicks, but I looked
up the episode in Jean-Marc Lofficier's "Programme Guide" (London: Virgin,
1994 ppb, p. 167-168). That's the corrected edition with the errata list
at the back. Lofficier, who acknowledges Dicks as a source, uses the
proper dictionary word, hysteresis.

Lelia Loban
Reality is just a crutch for those who can't handle science fiction.

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