Re: Marcus Garvey (was Re: Spectacular video exclusive!!!)

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From: boris@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen)
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Subject: Re: Marcus Garvey (was Re: Spectacular video exclusive!!!)
Date: 31 Oct 91 10:32:25 GMT
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In article <1991Oct29.190605.27069@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> am995@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Buffalohead) writes:
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>In a previous article, barger@ils.nwu.EDU () says:
>>
>>When she sings "high as a kite by then" a spaceship floats past the window,
>>the name readable as "Marcus Garvey" (???)
>
>Marcus Garvey was the leader of a Back-to-Africa movement in the U.S.
>in the early 1900's.  I think he was convicted of mail fraud and returned
>to Jamaica in the 30's.

Ack! You sent a charge through my simstim. I hope this isn't an
allusion to the rastafarian filled, Tesier-Ashpool, Wintermute et al.
world of Gibson's Neuromancer.

"The fractured lines and hallucinations were gone now, and the thing
looked real as ~Marcus Garvey~, a wingless antique jet, its smooth
skin plated with black chrome." --Neuromancer pg229

--boris