From: Gary Hoffman (ghoffman_at_spacetech.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 17:18:23 PDT
Simply amazing !
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" <n6tx_at_setileague.org>
To: "LARRY KLAES" <ljk4@msn.com>; "setipublic" <public@setileague.org>
Cc: <kli_at_kli.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: SETI public: Oregon county seeks Klingon interpreter for mental
health patients
> At 05:16 PM 5/11/03 -0400, LARRY KLAES wrote:
>
> >The following story appeared in The Globe Online:
> >Headline: Oregon county seeks Klingon interpreter for mental health
patients
>
> FWIW, I've already passed this on to Dr. Laurence Schoen,
> exectuive director of the Klingon Language Institute, and a SETI League
> member. If anyone can find a suitably qualified applicant, he can.
> As for the broader question of why a mental health patient might
> need a Klingon language interpreter, I can easily imagine an MPD (multiple
> personality disorder) patient, one of whose persona is a Klingon. And
> before you scoff, read Gene Brewer's compelling novel "K-Pax", or see the
> fairly faithful movie version. Dr. Brewer's character Prot was
psychically
> scarred, and had invented a persona (Prot, from the planet K-Pax) to
> insulate and protect him. Fiction, but in the sense of the patients in
Dr.
> Oliver Sachs' books, probably not without a clinical basis.
>
>
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