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What’s the pun?
by milgrim 8y ago
What’s the pun?
- Y_Y 8y agoMark Elf sounds like a name (in fact there is a famous guitarist with this name). I assumed that the purpose was to misdirect us so that there was an "a-ha" when you discovered the real meaning of the words, a-la a garden-path joke. I might be reading too far into it though, apparently the story _was_ originally published as MARK XI[0]. [0] http://mporcius.blogspot.ca/2014/05/three-stories-by-cordwainer-smith-war.html http://mporcius.blogspot.ca/2014/05/three-stories-by-cordwai...