Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!percus From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: The orgin of the name DALEKS - the answer ... Message-ID: <5020027@acf4.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 20:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.5020027 Posted: Wed Sep 25 20:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 01:52:46 EDT References: <122@ulose.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 41 > The leading theories were: > > 1. Terry Nation owned an encyclopedia set on which two adjacent volumes > were labled DAL and LEK, and, > > 2. He invented the name without any "real world" prompting. > > Holders of #1 opinion report Terry Nation saying this in an interview > and holders of #2 comment that while at one time he said this, he later > denied it and claimed total fictious invention. > > What I remember is similar to #1... As other people have no doubt pointed out, in the book "Celebration," it says otherwise. From an article about the daleks: =========================================================================== (Reprinted without permission of W. H. Allen) . . . Terry [Nation], of course, helped generate the very beginnings of the Dalek legend when he told writers and journalists seeking for a profound reason for the success of the machines and the singularly appropriate name he had given them -- that he had actually seen it on the spine of an encyclopedia volume covering the words DAL to LEK. It was a piece of sheer invention to satisfy the insistent demands of the press, he now readily admits: 'And in fact anyone checking the encyclopedias would have found that there has never been one covering those particular letters!' . . . =========================================================================== So long for that argument. (I hope...) A. G. Percus (ARPA) percus@acf4 (NYU) percus.acf4 (UUCP) ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!acf4!percus