Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> Damon Knight just died.
>
> His best known story was "To Serve Man".
This sounds similar to a Sesame Street episode I saw once
and cannot remember exactly but hopefully you
will get the point: A man invites a big fish home
for dinner. The Man is carrying the fish over his
shoulder and the fish is very excited at the
prospect of a home cooked meal. Then the fish figures
he is being invited home "for" dinner
in a different sense, i.e., that he is being
invited to *be* the dinner -- and now the fish is
no longer happy. Sesame Street did it better
than I can describe it....
This story has, I think, something to do with
the topic of "individualized" education, too....
Not to speak of each ethnicity being a virus from
outer space....
Cheers!
\brad mccormick
>
> The aliens arrive and they are benevolent and philanthropic. To help
> our backward planet, they set up a system for sending chosen earth
> people to their planet for education and training.
>
> Soon hundreds of thousands of earth people travel of to the far
> reaches.
>
> Our human characters manage to get a copy of what appears to be an
> alien project manual for earth - entitled "To Serve Man" - thus
> describing their selfless relationship with the primitives.
>
> However, other than the English title the book is written in the
> incomprehensible alien language.
>
> One of our heroes is watching a giant spaceship loading tens of
> thousands of earth people for their emancipating trip across the
> galaxy, when his friend arrives. He asks:
>
> 'Have you managed to translate the alien book?"
>
> "Yes."
>
> "Tell me about it."
>
> "It's a cookbook."
>
> Harry
>
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