[kj] Author Norman Spinrad's use of the phrase "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" in the 1970s

[Brendan]

Or Heineken...

PS: Arthur Norman Spinrad...great name! Sounds like the kind of bloke who
has a purple velvet smoking jacket and a plush study filled with dusty
books, huge fluffy eyebrows and a penchant for buggery...


> It's originally from the bhagavad gita. Around the time jaz was talking in

> interviews about parts of the desert in Egypts that had been turned to

> green

> glass - hinting that the area had seen nuclear conflict long ago.

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> john-paul

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> On 15/01/2008, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> the phrase originally comes from Oppenheimers (sp?) description of the

>> atom bomb

>>

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>> On 15 Jan 2008, at 19:24, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

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>> Is this a well known thing? Was reading a short story by sci-fi author

>> Norman Spinrad today, "The Big Flash," about a rock group called the

>> Four

>> Horsemen who help provoke Armageddon. They use an uadio visual display

>> for

>> their band that includes a film with someone reciting the line "Brighter

>> than a thousand suns..."

>>

>> Is this common Killing Joke lore? I was pretty stunned when I read this.

>> The Spinrad story "The Big Flash" is in a collection of post-apocalyptic

>> sci-fi and horror stories called _Beyond Armageddon_. Like I said, the

>> story

>> itself was written during the Nixon administration.

>>

>>

>> -Oliver

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