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   From: liddlelellow@yahoo.com   
      
   Steuard Jensen wrote:   
   > In message , Troels   
   > Forchhammer  wrote:   
   >> Stan Brown  spoke these staves:   
      
   >> [#] I believe that I have previously explained my view of _The   
   >> Hobbit_ as intended, by Tolkien, to be an independent branch off his   
   >> main legendarium [...] Rather like branching off software from a   
   >> main branch and developing on it without any intention of ever   
   >> having these changes merged back into the main branch.   
      
   Middle Earth? software? blasphemy! horror!!!   
      
   > And rather like software, eventually some management type comes back   
   > and insists on merging the wildly divergent branch back into the trunk   
   > anyway because "it has the features marketing needs". :)   
      
   unfortunately, as well as features, that also tends to introduce bugs.   
   or at least spiders.   
      
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   tamf   
      
   I see two Gandalfs and church bell. And two half lions chasing   
   a bull rat each over the lake. (Rorschach tests seen by "Illogic")   
      
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