[Ads-l] background of a quote

[Mark Mandel]

But notice the swapping of order /superiority between the two quotations.

Mark A. Mandel

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 8:40 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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."
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> 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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