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echo: apogee
to: JAMIE KOWINSKY
from: JONATHAN FINGAS
date: 1997-04-24 21:14:00
subject: Duke 3d SW reference?

> his stormtrooper disguise, hanging by a rope upside-down (making a 
> reference to the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back).  Duke comments,
> "now THIS is a Force to be reckoned with!"
 JK> *** The above occured on 04-22-97
 JK> Thank you much for the info... if you every remeber 
 JK> exaclty what level it was let me know, if not this 
 JK> info is more than enough.. :)
  I don't really remember, I haven't played that particular episode for 
awhile.  You're welcome anyhow!
 JK> *** After turning a pint glass upside down, Jonathan 
 JK> Fingas said to Jamie Kowinsky
>   What does "Wirkungsgeschichte" mean?  I don't know a whole lot of 
> German (beyond "guten tag" and such).
>   Thanks for the credit (if it's due), and you're welcome. 
 JK> *** The above occured on 04-22-97
 JK> Wirkungsgeschichte is one of thoese nifty German words that doesn't have
 JK> a good English equivlant.  Basically it means the 
 JK> effect, or the reapearance,
 JK> it reference to how others take the original work and 
 JK> rework its ideas into
 JK> thier own work, but one must still be fimular with the 
 JK> original to understand
 JK> the reworking.
  Oh, you mean a spin-off?  That seems fairly similar.
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