Subject: Re: Morning-After Commentary: SK's "Golden Years" From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (The Film Fan Man) Date: 1991-07-19, 03:12 Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1991Jul18.124230.14688@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, nmr1248@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Nancy Rabel) writes... } And how is it that the female head of security knows that the one guy } from "the shop" killed Macgyver. Because she'd worked with him before, and she knows how he works. She didn't so much *know* as she "strongly suspected". } By the way who or what is "the shop". "The Shop" is King's change-the-name-to-protect-the-guilty version of the standard CIA nickname: "The Company", though in King's milieu, it specifically deals with weapons research. In his novel FIRESTARTER, he explains that the nickname was derived from the A.E. van Vogt science fiction novel THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER. -- "Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get money and make it into a concept, and then later turn it into an idea." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM or ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian