[Ads-l] background of a quote

[Bill Mullins]

Sometime before 1984, Jerry Pournelle (an SF author who was a NYT bestseller but never won a Hugo award) said "Money will get you through times of no Hugos better than Hugos will get you through times of no money."

He was preceded by cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, whose character Freewheelin' Franklin Freak (of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) said "Grass will carry you through times of no money better than money will carry you through times of no grass." (1969 or before) (usually quoted as "dope will get you through  . . .")

Is the Dope/grass version the ur-text?  or are they both riffing off something earlier, of which I am not aware?




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