A Boa Ku, er, Avoah Ku, er, that darned mushroom!

Mark Nguyen (mnguyen@hotmail.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:26:43 PST

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> They initially had it as "A Vaoa Ku" or something like that, but then
at
>the last minute someone told translator Neil Nadelman about the
derivation
>of the name (the creature "A Bao A Qu" described by Borges in his
destiary)
>and he paid out of his own pocket to have it changed on the tapes.

So, for all us buggers who haven't read this book (?), what *is* A Boa A
Qu?

Mark-II

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