Re: Conlangs in History

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> What was even more ridiculous was that in one of the related
> novels set in the same universe, _The Stars, like Dust_, in the end
> the main protagonist reads aloud an astonishing discovery, the
> preamble to the US Constitution, and understands it!
John W. Campbell imposed that whole Constitution-plot on Asimov against
his will for publication in _Astounding_, and then he wasn't able
to rip it out when the story was finally published as a book.
Much later, Asimov wrote that the idea was absurd.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"