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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: General Semantics
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 07:51:23 -0500
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On 28/07/2024 21.43, Jay E. Morris wrote:
> On 7/28/2024 2:54 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>> I recently re-read van Vogt's _The World of Null-A_, which seems
>> to bear the same relationship to General Semantics as does
>> _Atlas Shrugged_ to libertarianism.
>>
>> Some chapters have a little epigraph, relating a gem of General
>> Semantics thought to the coming events. These are attributed,
>> variously, to:
>>    B.R
>>    A.K.
>>    C.J.K
>>    H.W.
>>    C.M.C.
>>    E.T.B.
>>    W.W.L.
>>    T.H.
>>    J.W.C.,Jr.
>> It seems likely to me that "A.K." is Alfred Korzybski, and that
>> "J.W.C.,Jr." is John W. Campbell, Jr. Does anybody have any ideas
>> as to who the other folks might be?
>>
> 
> Found the following. All errors are mine as it did not copy nice.y.
> 
> ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 65, No. 3 (July 2008), pp. 286-288 (3 pages)
> 
> QUOTATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF NULL- A
> Nitram Nosnivel*
> 
> After reading Science and Sanity, A.E. Van Vogt decided to write a work of science fiction titled The World of Null- A, which was published in book form 1948. The volume has since gone on to become an important part of the science fiction literary canon and it has attracted many people to general semantics. The following are some quotations that are used at the beginning of the book's chapters. (FYI Null- A Continuum by John C. Wright, which is a sequel to The World of Null- A, is reviewed in this edition of ETC.)

(massive snip)

> * Nitram Nosnivel is fond of general semantics and word games. He particularly enjoys analyzing
> words to see if they make sense spelled backward. He holds a DHP degree from UYN and makes his
> home in Wen Kroy, Ytic.

Wow! Thanks for the detailed response.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 10:18-19