It’s Monday again, but in the U.S. we have Thanksgiving on Thursday, and either the day before or after that, the galley proofs of The Albatross arrive, so I will a. see the book in near-final form, and b. have more work to do. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, today’s Hili dialogue is one of the rare ones with a title:
Pavlov’s catHili: When I hear the sound of cutlery I go to the kitchen.A: And so does Cyrus.Hili: Interesting, how did you spoil him like that?
In Polish:
Kot PawłowaHili: Kiedy słyszę dźwięk sztućców idę do kuchni.
Ja: Cyrus też.Hili: Ciekawe jak wyście go zdemoralizowali?
Oh! I had never heard of galley proofs before, but I knew what they are… I mean I did not know they were called galley proofs. You sometimes see old books where the binding is made with galley proofs or other old cut offs & parts of old books, including proper manuscripts. I came across one the other day in our library – I put it on our ‘web log’…
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2014/11/07/harancour-place-or-the-orphan-protected/
If you ever have an old book, particularly pre-1900, where the spine comes loose take a look!
By strange coincidence, I’m cranking on a (much smaller) galley proof, to appear in “AIDS and Behavior” shortly. I was working in the kitchen and listening to Jethro Tull, too. So for a while I was cranking on a galley in the galley, while humming “Minstrel in the Gallery”. I’m better now.
…and as soon as this thing goes out the door, I think I’ll have a fine Colorado Springs whiskey at 6:30am, to celebrate. It is about bedtime for me, anyway. That’s what I call a galley proof.
For cats, as with the Sun, the world revolves around them….
b&
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If ProfCC’s bookshelf includes a copy of Asimov’s “I, Robot” collection, then about story #4 is “Galley Slave”
Wiki tells me that it’s in “Rest of the Robots”, not “I” ; Meh. It’s still worth a re-read if looking for displacement activity.
Available to read here:
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1957-12/Galaxy_1957_12#page/n9/mode/2up
b&
Those short stories are among my favourites. I especially like “Little Lost Robot” because of how it explores messing with the three laws. I may have read them as part of a two part anthology of Asimov’s robot stories though. Another good thing was the art on the front pages of those anthologies. I stared at those robots for hours.
That two-parter would be “I, Robot” and “The Rest of the Robots”.
Taking the “Deep Time” perspective, I doubt that these will be the most concentrated packages of SF goodness of all time, but they’re going to take an immense amount of beating.
Well, they’ve got 60-plus years on most SF, and if they’re out of print then I’ll have to admit that there really is no hope for the world.
Actually…I can’t think of a single Asimov Robot story that didn’t explore messing with the Three Laws…kinda the whole point of the exercise for him, I think….
b&