Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 14:33:39 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] -Reply



In his classic SF novel _The Demolished Man_, Alfred Bester used a

number of typographical tricks, one of which was incorporating

symbols into surnames as punning abbreviations:



[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]kins (Atkins)

1/4main (Quartermain, in which "1/4" is a single printed character)

Wyg& (Wygand)



-- Mark M&el



Mark A. Mandel : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

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