Gully Foyle in WOLP
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.chy-wy.client.bresnan.net)
Date: January 03, 2008 11:15PM
I'm new to the Fforum and MuseSusan invited me over here from WOLP.
I posted a note in WOLP topics about this character from Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination" appearing fleetingly during the awards meeting. He offers to help Thursday control the rowdies, and then recites his own classic lines from his own novel:
"Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my station,
Deep space is my dwelling place
and death my destination."
But in the novel, his last line reads "And the stars my destination," which is, of course, the title of the book.
The major premiss of the "Stars..." text is that teleportation has become possible, and characters can "jaunt" from place to place to place, much as TN and her colleagues do from place to place, book to book, and time to time, except for those (like TN) who need additional training and instruction.
Anyone else familiar with Gully (Gulliver) Foyle?
Dennis