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Article #754Re: Fiery the angel.. Blade Runner
From: Rick Innis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:27
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:27
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In article <1993Jan25.044426.12747@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes: >Nathan Otto Siemers (ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote: >: >: This one has bugging me for a long time. >: >: Spoken by Rutger Hauer, as Roy in Blade Runner >: >: >: Fiery the angels fell >: Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders >: Burning with the fires of (Hawk? sounds like.) >: >: Anyone know where this comes from? >: > > The word is "Orc". I have a vague memory that this was from T.S. Eliott, >but I'm probably wrong on this. If the word is Orc, then it could be from Blake's "America: A Vision", which includes a character of that name. I don't have my Norton Anthology of English Lit on hand, but will check it up later (unless someone else beats me to it.) --Rick. -- Rick Innis SoftQuad Inc. "Have you seen the secret of the Universe?" said rick@sq.com Zebedee, arriving. "I know I left it here somewhere." +1 (416) 239 4801
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!rick From: rick@sq.sq.com (Rick Innis) Subject: Re: Fiery the angel.. Blade Runner Message-ID: <1993Jan25.162749.25243@sq.sq.com> Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada References: <NS14.93Jan12043243@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu> <C1DnG3.BEz@boi.hp.com> <1993Jan25.044426.12747@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Distribution: alt Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:27:49 GMT Lines: 29