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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
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Subject: Re: Here is the plot.  What is the title and author?
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 23:44:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 23:44:31 1985
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This is one of the Gallagher stories by Henry Kuttner.  They were collected
in a book called The Proud Robot.  (The robot started out as a bottle opener,
he thinks.  He hasn't found a use for it and it just stares at itself in
mirrors and complains about the ugly humans.)

These stories are fun reading.  Gallagher has this habit of making promises
when he's drunk that he has to face up to when sober, while putting on the
pretense of knowing exactly what his clients want.  He spends great amounts
of time just trying to find out *what* he promised to build.  And of course,
there are the things that just show up in his lab that seem to have no useful
purpose in life....

						-Dragon
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