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Re:Defenestration of Prague Window by philiplu on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:06PM (#36740482)
Heh, sorry to disagree, but that's a big nope. I learned the word in my teens, back in the 70s, from the Arthur C. Clarke story "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" in his "Tales from the White Hart" collection of SF-oriented tall tales.
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Re:Defenestration of Prague Window by thombat on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:36PM (#36740706)
TIL that "Tales from the White Hart" had at least some readership in the USA - I would have feared that its air of post-war English constraints (rationing and London grime) felt almost more fantastical than the accounts of Harry Purvis.
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Re:Defenestration of Prague Window by philiplu on Saturday July 15, 2023 @10:07PM (#36742833)
As an avid SF reader back then, I pretty much devoured everything by the big 3 of Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein. And lots of others, of course - the Callahan's Bar shorts by Spider Robinson were a fun update of the Tales of the White Hart idea.
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