Leiningen and Clojar are

LEGEN...

wait for it...

DARY!

Anyways, just wanted to say thanks.

On Nov 19, 1:23 pm, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote:
> meb wrote:
> > Was the name Leiningen inspired by the Esquire short story "Leiningen
> > vs. Ants"?  That would be a brilliantly obscure way to challenge the
> > predominance of ant.  Or did you have another reference in mind.
>
>  From the Leiningen README:
>
> "Leiningen!" he shouted. "You're insane! They're not creatures you can
> fight--they're an elemental--an 'act of God!' Ten miles long, two miles
> wide--ants, nothing but ants! And every single one of them a fiend from
> hell... -- from Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson
>
> For those who haven't heard of it:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants
>
> The story seems to be online in various places, like this one:
>
> http://www.americanliterature.com/Stephenson/SS/LeiningenVersustheAnt...

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