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Can you ever grok grok? can you ever grok anything
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it sounds like a name to be used on one of thoes icky creatures in "The FellowShip Of The Ring" movie
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reitoei
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its from 'stranger in a strange land' by robert heinlein. the monsters are orcs not groks
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heinlein was a strange guy himself
i like his works, but they lead me to be almost certain he was a fascist
funniest thing was that the first book of his i read was something that most parents would have freaked out over if they had known it was in our grade school library
FRIDAY. one of his later works
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Anyone ever read a sleazy little piece of trash called AZTEC?
Now there was a book to get you through the lonely nights...
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grok /grok/, var. /grok/ vt.
[common; from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. When you claim to `grok' some knowledge or technique, you are asserting that you have not merely learned it in a detached instrumental way but that it has become part of you, part of your identity. For example, to say that you "know" LISP is simply to assert that you can code in it if necessary - but to say you "grok" LISP is to claim that you have deeply entered the world-view and spirit of the language, with the implication that it has transformed your view of programming. Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark. 2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. "Almost all C compilers grok the void type these days."
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me grok, you not grok, only one grok in world.
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me next.
please?
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jane
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i remember reading s.i.a.s.l. about four or five years ago
[back in the science fiction phase]
i don't know how much i really understood back then
i guess i should read it again
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jane
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but either way, i think i'm going to start using grok as a sporadic vocabulary word
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what's it to you?
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