Request for SF mag verification of Modern Fable Lions and gazelles (antelopes, humans)

[Garson O'Toole]

Dave Hause wrote
> It's Vol 106, #7, July, 1986, pp. 32-43;  The Long Stern Chase:  A
> Speculative Exercise, by Rick Cook, under the TOC heading, Science Fact, and
> the quote is on p. 36.
> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> Waynesville, MO

Great! Many thanks to Dave Hause for kindly locating the passage about
lions and antelopes within the July, 1986 issue of Analog. The blog
post on "The Fable of the Lion and the Gazelle" has now been updated
to include this Analog citation together with an acknowledgement in
the bibliographic notes.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/05/lion-gazelle/

With Appreciation
Garson

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> From: "Garson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 5:09 PM
> Subject: Request for SF mag verification of Modern Fable Lions and gazelles
> (antelopes, humans)
>
>
> In June there was a discussion on this list about the fable/proverb
> concerning a lion and a gazelle. Here is a link to the initiating post
> in the archives:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ADS-L;7fbbbcef.1106D
>
> Based on the content of some past messages there are some SF fans on
> the list who might have access to Analog magazine in 1986. I am trying
> to verify a citation that contains a variant of the proverb with an
> antelope, and it is difficult to find the appropriate issues in a
> library.
>
> Two matches in Google Books give conflicting information, but both
> matches indicate that the text below is supposed to appear on page 36
> in an issue dated 1986:
>
> A lion wakes up each morning thinking, "All I've got to do today is
> run faster than the slowest antelope."
>
> An antelope wakes up thinking, "All I've got to do today is run faster
> than the fastest lion."
>
> A human wakes up thinking, "To hell with who's fastest, I'll outlast
> the bastards."
>
> I am trying to construct a full citation. Here is the conflicting
> information from GB:
>
> Analog science fiction/science fact: Volume 79, Issues 4-6
> Analog science fiction/science fact: Volume 106, Issues 7-9
>
> Here is a link into Google Books:
>
> http://goo.gl/bXSd6
> http://books.google.com/books?id=DrEnAQAAIAAJ&q=%22antelope+wakes%22#search_anchor
>
> If a list member can find this quotation in Analog magazine and send
> me (or the list) the cite information that would be very kind. Knowing
> the name of the article and the author would be helpful. (Scans would
> be perfect if it is easy for you to create them, but providing the
> citation data by itself would be great. [Scans cannot be sent to the
> list, of course])
>
> Thanks, Garson
>
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