[HPforGrownups] PS/SS Title Change (was: What is Canon?)

[Lynx412 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55562

In a message dated 4/17/03 3:33:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rainbow at rainbowbrite.net writes:


> I do see your point. But i'm guessing that this myth is one that originated 
> in Britain? Because I've never heard of it. The Holy Grail is something 
> known world wide as far as i can tell. So if the Philosopher's Stone is an 
> area-specific myth, I can understand why they changed it. But knowing now 
> where the name originated, I do wish they had left the title alone.

       No, it's not British. I first ran across it in my early science 
classes, during discussions of Alchemy and how it was the basis of modern 
Chemistry. 

       Maybe it's been trimmed from the modern science curriculum, more's the 
pity.

       Cheryl the Lynx


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