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Blattid bleated: That feels exactly right. Lucius Shepard would not have been at a DragonCon, nor would Wolfe, nor Sterling, nor is there a banquet. (I, on the other hand, did go …
03 Sep 2002, 20:35
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From: rostrum No, I'm almost certain that this was before his novel was published, though it was in the works, and Sterling would have known of it. I can't remember the name of t…
03 Sep 2002, 02:39
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Good call, Nick. Some major convention (WorldCon, I guess) was held in, I think, Atlanta in the 80s and Newt, for reasons that I think had to do with Bruce Sterling, was the banque…
02 Sep 2002, 01:03
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hartshorn, Yes, they (discussions, not discussers, necessarily--it remains to be seen) are this loony. Help us back to some semblance of sanity. -alga…
01 Sep 2002, 03:23
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Crush, have you met Robert Borski? You're both gifted with imagination plus, and should have much to discuss. -alga…
27 Aug 2002, 18:13
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----- Original Message ----- A much better novel, set at about the same time, same station, is -Morality Play- by Barry Unsworth. Recommended to this group. -alga…
27 Aug 2002, 01:09
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What an interesting and original idea! Now that you bring it up, it seems very posssible, given Thais's desrciption. Here, from the Penguin Dictionary of Saints is some info about…
28 Jul 2002, 01:03
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28 Jul 2002, 00:42
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A thoughtful answer to a rather dashed-off statement. Alga wrote of the Blattid repriled: which I find simply implausible.) Actually, I agree; I was using "satirical" carelessl…
17 Jul 2002, 14:37
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A thought to add to my own last post: there is a logical explanation, or at least a novelist's explanation, for the culturally, racially and sexually segregated cities (or enclaves…
16 Jul 2002, 15:36
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Logically, this is ridiculous. Here in New York, when Wombat, Ranjit and I take the subway (not all together, or not yet), when we look up and down the car we see profiles that cou…
16 Jul 2002, 06:35
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I didn't learn anything from him, though he may have learned something from me. We were discussing a writer, Dale Peck. Love Jon Carroll. Please let us know what you learned fro…
08 Jul 2002, 13:27
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Oops, that wasn't the starting point (Iy; been going on even onger than I thought). This was: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020701&s=peck070102…
06 Jul 2002, 18:26
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Whoops, I meant LS in my above post! -alga…
05 Jul 2002, 11:32
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For those of us who get the Digest, this was an interesting one because Tony Ellis was also speculatiing why Victor hated Roy Trenchard so much. And of course #5 hates his father t…
05 Jul 2002, 11:18
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----- Original Message ----- I suppose that"s Neil Armstrong the school is named after, just as he shows up in Ultan's library. -alga…
04 Jul 2002, 11:31
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No one has brought up the fact that Vodalus etc. have Roman/Latin names. Which is what Juterna has too; it may indicate whose side you're on in a very simple way (Romans v. Christi…
21 Jun 2002, 02:00
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From Jeff Wilon: From me: From him: Juturna is our sole adult acquaintance with this group of the Other People and I think she has to count for something representative in a nov…
20 Jun 2002, 01:31
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Definitely don't agree with this--i.e. agree with RB. Quite correct, and see my earlier comments on undines and Rhinemaidens. That's because, as a mythological creature, she has …
18 Jun 2002, 01:36
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Idle Idas question: Does she ever give her real name? It ought to be a water-nymph's name, like Jurturna (spririt of Lake Diuturna). Idas is a man's name; he was one of a princely…
17 Jun 2002, 17:01
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From newbie Andrew: First, welcome, and prepare to be attacked at once! (Or slimed, heh heh.) They are *not* the main villains of the Briah universe. -They are basically shaped …
17 Jun 2002, 03:22
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Thank you very much, Crush, for posting these-- right on the button. One can fossick around among these odd old writings, but I bet GW has too. Useful to have in the archive. alga…
11 Jun 2002, 19:42
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[Huge snip] But Ratty, way back when, someone, maybe you, silenced me on some rant by pointing out that Cutthroat is loved wherever he goes. By everyone. Even when he is menaced u…
01 Jun 2002, 04:56
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----- Original Message ----- I would like to know this too. I am among the minority who found URTH absolutely necessary, and who have never been able to understand the hostility o…
28 May 2002, 01:19
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[snip, sorry, but you can look it up] That wasn't my list and the current format of the Urth list makes it too difficult to go back to find who it was. I insisted on the paradigm …
25 May 2002, 00:08
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No, Adam, I don't think Blue and Green are Hell or Purgatory. I think Wolfe contemplated a "what if?" pair of worlds where mythological spirits and personages that Catholics are st…
23 May 2002, 21:38
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From hartshorn: (a lot snipped) Surely, surely, I do. And I'm even offended at the attempt to drag the Jews into this. Wolfe, I think, would hit the ceiling at such a ham(heh!)fi…
23 May 2002, 00:36
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Adam replied: Many, many thanks. But without having read it yet, I should like to correct, gently, one thing. Sympathetic Death figures were very much a part of Victorian sentimen…
21 May 2002, 12:58
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You mustn't forget that the inhumi are demons, quite explicitly. This is on my mind because I've just been reading a book called -Demon Lovers- about the accusations of sex with de…
21 May 2002, 09:12
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24 Apr 2002, 04:11
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----- Original Message ----- Jewish Lipman). Thanks, Adam--that'll teach me to rely on the veracity of a Jewish friend who isn't religious. I should looked it up myself. But it …
23 Apr 2002, 07:15
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Your chain was not being yanked. That was a completely serious post, in which I tried to identify Matthew (whom I consider an interesting and imaginative nut-case, which may bring …
21 Apr 2002, 06:16
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This is a Pharisees vs. Saducees question, a big Jewish division in the first century which had a major effect on forming Christianity's doctrines. Briefly, the Pharisees, the sor…
20 Apr 2002, 07:13
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It might help if everyone would please turn off their MIME or "rich text" abilities in favor of ""plain text" for Urth messages--you, Ratty, are a sinner here--as are, more forgiva…
19 Apr 2002, 12:55
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Well, Victor. But V is also the Roman 5. -alga…
16 Apr 2002, 11:48
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Not fair: Arcturus is crude beside 5H, and the violence is cartoonish and nasty (though not nearly so dumb as in Bloom's own book, Lucifer). 5H's violence is subtle and dreadful; i…
14 Apr 2002, 14:07
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In my own case, I fell for 5H because of its perversity and cruelty. I think (I really don't recall) that I first read only the first novella, which I found (and find) dazzling, a …
13 Apr 2002, 09:14
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Try this for a direct link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62473-2002Apr4.html -alga…
08 Apr 2002, 11:09
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Thank you, Ratty, very informative post and I stand corrected. Some day I hope that you and I will get together and sing hymns. I'm not a very good singer, but I know tons of hymns…
26 Feb 2002, 05:12
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I'm not quite sure what the context is for reprinting this. It's a famous old Anglican hymn. I'm a heathen now, but I was brought up as an Episcopalian/Anglican and I will staunchl…
25 Feb 2002, 01:03
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Said Ranjit: What *I* would like, and others too, is for the digest to work the way it used to, not as separate attachments but as one simple email. Roy C. Lackey taught me how to…
18 Feb 2002, 04:59
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I don't think so. I don't think he'd gotten interested at that early point--it was long before he knew Bloom. I actually asked him about that title but he was evasive--said somethi…
16 Feb 2002, 05:09
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From Jason Ingram: You're right on the money. I borrowed these books from the library (together with Frances Yates's -Theater of the World-) because of the year of researching Cro…
15 Feb 2002, 03:16
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From Sepia: Thank you for this--it is particularly interesting to me as I have just finished reading THE ABYSS, by Margaret Yourcenar, an account of a fictional 16th c. intellectu…
12 Feb 2002, 16:30
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Nice post, hartshorn. Which is to say that I too have thought about these things. How in the world could two so fundamentally different characters have found a way to get along? Wi…
07 Feb 2002, 05:40
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From Marc Arimani: The three are Crowley's short early books: The Deep, Beasts and Engine Summer. They have been omnibused before, by Bantam. The Translator isn't quite mainstream…
31 Jan 2002, 14:54
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The fourth book won't be out next year. That book is -The Translator-, a stand-alone. There are publication problems, too, with the series. Bantam, his long-time publisher, ditched…
31 Aug 2001, 16:09
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Pippen, What are they about? And what are the book's names? (And don't forget to specify "Text Only" for Urth and Whorl in your address book; the format can't handle html). -alga…
11 Aug 2001, 10:03
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Said Dan'l re =The Golden Compass=: I don't think that, with a real writer, it's quite so cut-and-dried. (Most writers of commercial fantasy are not, by my definition, "real" writ…
31 Jul 2001, 12:04
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J.A. Solomon says: But the Bear says: And Dan'l says: So I'm going to watch it. Bear, I am an idiot about recording, but will try. -alga…
26 Jun 2001, 02:38
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