[HN Gopher] Person from Porlock
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Person from Porlock
Author : benbreen
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-08-21 21:15 UTC (1 days ago)
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| rawling wrote:
| I'm pretty sure Kubla Khan was quoted in a sci-fi book I read
| once, but I've not been able to find it again. Don't suppose
| anyone knows?
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.
| rawling wrote:
| I've never actually got around to reading that, so I must be
| thinking of another one, but thanks!
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| There's actually a few on the page linked to by this post.
| rawling wrote:
| You're right - there's more references to Porlock than on
| the page for the poem itself...
| gwm451 wrote:
| See Ray Bradbury's short story, "A Miracle of Rare Device".
|
| EDIT: The Ray Bradbury Theater adaptation:
| https://youtu.be/2Ro9K9MWc7g
| finnh wrote:
| Some Piers Anthony series? the ones about the twinned sci-
| fi/fantasy world?
|
| EDIT: a quick search tells me "Apprentice Adept" is the name of
| the series I'm thinking of.
| rawling wrote:
| Ok, what I'm learning is a lot of different sci-fi writers
| REALLY like this poem
| finnh wrote:
| Yeah that's a safe bet.
|
| Also: my recalling that series is NOT a recommendation.
| Even as a bored 12-year-old I'm pretty sure I knew it was
| dross. Yes I read all of them...
| zh3 wrote:
| Porlock. Nice place, roads in and out will test driving skills (I
| love the smell of burnt brake lining in the morning - oh, and
| clutch for drivers who haven't seen the like before). Rather
| stiff climb out the back to Dunkery Beacon, doable on a bicycle
| but a challenge for cars in icy conditions.
| tonylucas wrote:
| You always knew when summer had arrived when you could smell
| burnt brakes!
|
| Saw more than the occasional jackknifed lorry as well on that
| hill
| tonylucas wrote:
| Very random seeing Porlock on here. I grew up in the Village,
| although haven't been back in many years
| [deleted]
| chris_wot wrote:
| Isn't it "man from Porlock"?
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| The exact quote is on the page linked, but here it is, with
| Coleridge writing about himself in the third person:
|
| > On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct
| recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper,
| instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here
| preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a
| person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an
| hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small
| surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some
| vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the
| vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered
| lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images
| on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast,
| but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!
| madmads wrote:
| It is indeed in the first paragraph of the article mentioned
| that "person from Porlock" can also be referred to as "man from
| Porlock", or just "Porlock"
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