Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa S. Chabot) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Request for Kilgore Trout titles Message-ID: <3759@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 09:35:23 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3759 Posted: Thu Sep 27 09:35:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:24:52 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 25 The rumor that the works of the master Kilgore Trout could have been ground out by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a vile, vile falsehood! Vonnegut may make references to Trout, but this is out of awe or respect. Those seeking more volumes of Trout are not going to find them on the shelves of the supermarket paperback section, no! Only _Venus_On_The_Half-Shell_ is still in print, so to find other masterpieces one must hunt carefully through innumerable used book sections. True Trout fanatics and other searchers claim to have the best luck, or at least to do the most of their hunting, in the second-hand section of their handy local adult bookstore. But their success, when (if? sshh sshh!) there are any, are sneaked home in plain brown wrappers and under coats, and quietly hidden away in misers' hoards (perhaps there is an extensive black market in Trout first editions? perhaps they fear death threats or theft? the police? the censure of their family and friends?). The other problem with Kilgore Trout treasures is that booksellers when sorting books alphabetically by authors' last names unaccountably will file them under "F". L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USBail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Irony Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-arden!chabot