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([[Margaret St. Clair]]) A fabulous drink appearing in various [[fannish]] and minor [[pro]] epics. It actually exists as a sort of sacramental wine (the astringent, narcotic juice of ''Sarcostemma viminale'') in the Hindu religion.  
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([[Margaret St. Clair]]) A fabulous drink appearing in various [[fannish]] and minor [[pro]] [[epic]]s. It actually exists as a sort of sacramental wine (the astringent, narcotic juice of ''Sarcostemma viminale'') in the Hindu religion.  
 
   
 
   
 
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* [https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Dream_Quest/Dream_Quest05.pdf “Soma Fun, Hey Keed?”] by [[Arthur H. Rapp]], ''[[Dream Quest]]'' (April 1948, p. 13).
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See also: [[Liquor]], [[Drinking]].
  
 
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From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
(Margaret St. Clair) A fabulous drink appearing in various fannish and minor pro epics. It actually exists as a sort of sacramental wine (the astringent, narcotic juice of Sarcostemma viminale) in the Hindu religion.

from Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement ca. 1960: A more authoritative source of the word as a stfnal term is Huxley's Brave New World, not the St. Clair stories cited originally.

See also: Liquor, Drinking.



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