[P1] the whirring is back! was:new ibook problem...

[Fran Dollinger]

I read that book and knew right away what the reference was but I was 
under the impression that to 'grok' something was to have a deep 
understanding of that thing.

fran

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 02:40 PM, david wrote:

> Joe -
>
> I was making a reference to Robert Heinlein's incredible science 
> fiction classic "Stranger in a Strange Land"
>
> grok is the word Mike, the protagonist, used to describe what he did 
> before creating his miracles. Often after Mike grokked something it 
> disappeared. Jubal was another central character in the book.