Posted from 8 addresses as Alice Turner, Alice K. Turner, akt, aturner3
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Um, that was a joke? Referring to Spain in the quote? And to the Orwell reference? I know where Lepanto is/was. You forgot to point out that Chesterton was not technically a Vict…
11 Jan 2005, 21:00
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Andrew Bollen: To which vizcacha replied: Oh, I agree completely. This kind of writing is completely out of fashion now, but "Lepanto" is actually a fine example of robust Victo…
11 Jan 2005, 14:16
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Well, the carved stick is a spindle, or something like it. I don't understand why you'd want to insist on her being a Norn when Wolfe has clearly indicated that she isn't. Her na…
04 Jan 2005, 13:19
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Ormsby= Pendragon, bravo Dan'l. Would not have occurred to me. As to Parka, she is the "white spinner of destiny," and she operates on a level above the Overcym because they too …
03 Jan 2005, 13:28
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Well, that "any" certainly gave me a chuckle. You know who I miss from this group? Nutria, known to me as Ratty. He could be counted upon for the evangelical Protestant PoV, and …
13 Dec 2004, 15:27
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Yes, The Scar is a lot better than PSS (though it completely falls apart at the end), and IC is hopeless (I think, though I've only ventured into it for three chapters). I plead …
02 Dec 2004, 19:30
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I've been off this list for quite a long time, just rejoined, and feel I should add some <g> support to Hmpf (though that is a distinctly non-vegetal name). Wow, pretty busy on t…
30 Nov 2004, 20:29
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I have just finished reading (in small doses) Dianna Wynne Jones's -Tough Guide to Fantasyland- which should probably be required for anyone who wishes to set a book there. A lot o…
21 Aug 2003, 04:30
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One more thing. Delaney is indeed covered in hair, or at least he was two weeks ago. Baldy seems to me a perfectly logical contraction of Baldanders--why should it refer to hair? A…
29 Jul 2003, 05:53
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It seems to me that there is enirely too much ad hominen squabbling going on here--if this list degenerates into Usenet, I, for one, will depart. Take it to e-mail if you want to i…
29 Jul 2003, 05:26
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Whoops, I did get the ship Samru confused with the starship. Does anyone remember who the original Samru was?--the lovely lady who inspired Shah Jehan to build the Taj Mahal in her…
09 Jul 2003, 05:27
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"Ah, America! Every image of it from the films is true, I thought to myself as my oily-featured driver sped through amber lights and babbled maniacally into his radio. The familiar…
01 Jul 2003, 00:29
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From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com> quoting me: Have you considered why she's your ex-wife, hmmm? No, seriously, none of the Golden Agers could address sex; you could say that t…
21 Apr 2003, 02:50
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I've forgotten who the Pullmanologists are among us. I've been rereading -The Subtle Knife-, I really can't tell you why, and I'd like to discuss Specters (American spelling) off t…
06 Jan 2003, 22:21
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From Andrew Bollen--hi there: I am sort of a vanished person (lower case) on this list myself, but Andrew makes some great points and inspires me. Andrew, this is a fine thesis, t…
19 Dec 2002, 03:57
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Could we please have less **quoting** and far more **snipping** on the list! That last digest was sheer torture. And just think what it will do to the archive. Thanks in advance. …
13 Dec 2002, 01:21
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From mantis: I'm an Oz "expert," and there is no connection whatever. I doubt that Lewis ever read Baum. But just for starters, Dorothy Betsey and Trot, three little American girl…
01 Dec 2002, 03:27
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I'm a PEN member, and PEN-America has a big project going on--you're a well-read bunch and might have some bright ideas. You can email me with suggestions and I hope you will. "PE…
23 Oct 2002, 20:24
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Surprise today! Opened Vanity Fair, a glossy US mag usually obsessed with celebs and scandals (usually rather well done, I must say), to find, of all things, a piece on Philip Pull…
08 Sep 2002, 03:25
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Please, please, newbies, turn off your "rich text" or html option when you reply to an urth message. Ranjit's program can't support it. If there were only one of you, I, or someone…
04 Sep 2002, 20:08
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OK, it's off the wall.But because of this review http://www.tnr.com/040201/2peck040201.html I have been in engaged in a lengthy (amazingly lengthy, actually, almost like here) disc…
06 Jul 2002, 16:06
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This is completely off-subject; skip if you will. When I was about 11, I read a Victorian children's novel in which a young boy looking out at the sea under a full moon, was able …
12 May 2002, 17:45
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I hoped for an Oz reply. Thanks for clarification--this is not something that I know much about. Don't remember if I've read the Bradbury. Can you tell us why it's not Australian?…
07 May 2002, 07:28
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Without following the argument very closely, let me suggest that with the Annese, GW references the fairy tradition--he is not alone among good sf writers to do so. Faries are flum…
05 May 2002, 16:46
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Have not been following recent discussion much. Have not read "A Fish Story." But a writer as immersed (so to speak) in sf as GW is, in writing a story with such a title and with a…
02 May 2002, 05:06
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There Ain't No Necronomicon! : Copyright 1992 by Eric Hoffman and Poke Runyon : Every few years you will see : An ad as well-writ as can be! : Offering for sale a book... : Whose …
16 Apr 2002, 19:58
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I don't think he is exactly fed up, but he wants to close it out. The last volume will be set in the present (2003 or so), the central figure will be a grown-up Sam, and we will be…
01 Feb 2002, 08:08
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Ranjit, As a digest person, I am getting this list as a series of attachments--that is, I have to open every individual post as a seperate attachment. It would be ok, I guess, to …
30 Jan 2002, 07:21
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This excuse is pretty hard to swallow, though I have no doubt that Wolfe employed it. We're talking about quotations from Thoreau(!), Conrad Aiken, Robert Howard, Tolkien and Lewis…
05 Jan 2002, 03:30
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Thank you, Andy Robertson, for sending the URL. Here it is, for those who, like me, may have missed it. http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/docindex.html I can venture a guess as…
03 Jan 2002, 00:14
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I think I missed something. What are we talking about here? I tried to access the archive but it seems out of business (as Ranjit has been warning us it would be). Where is this es…
02 Jan 2002, 22:14
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No, this has not been discussed, and even if it had, please don't apologize. We are glad to welcome you. I'm interested in this subject because of my own elaborate (and only somewh…
26 Dec 2001, 01:20
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Merry Christmas, Ranjit, and all. Peace on Urth -alga…
24 Dec 2001, 18:22
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Merry Christmas, Ranjit, and all. Peace on Urth -alga…
24 Dec 2001, 18:22
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Nevertheless, David Duffy's equivalences are amusing and apt. I'm looking forward to the movie--fairly appreciative review (negatives: too much background music, too repetitive, wo…
18 Dec 2001, 18:18
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There's an essay in the already famous New Yorker of last week (famous for its wonderful "Middle Eastern" cover map of New York--look for it soon in a poster shop near you), by Ant…
10 Dec 2001, 15:19
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One list. -alga…
09 Dec 2001, 19:20
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One list. -alga…
09 Dec 2001, 19:20
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To be more precise, chota is "short." A chota peg is whiskey served in a short glass, with less or none of that nasty delibilitating (boiled) water or soda from a syphon that you'd…
04 Dec 2001, 14:50
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I can count to ten in Hindi--though I need a jog to get started. Choora is not four. Mau is not May. Hari is a common male first name. Jahlee is a female demon or lamia. This is …
03 Dec 2001, 14:10
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Oh, it's not just the Taliban. Just what did our "liberation" of Kuwait do for women there? They still can't drive. And just watch one, hot and weary, try to sit down at a cheap si…
02 Dec 2001, 20:15
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A message from Wolfe: ? Pioneer Press September 27, 2001 A guest essay by Gene Wolfe, published in a Chicago-area local newspaper, is unfortunately not online. Wolfe urges citizen…
01 Dec 2001, 11:37
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Lingua Franca just died. This week. -alga…
17 Nov 2001, 17:32
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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/11/stirevnws03003.html Good stuff. Interesting that no byline is given for the Guardian piece, though it's told quite personal…
16 Nov 2001, 00:17
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----- Original Message ----- to > John Crowley's "Aegypt" - it seems obvious to me but I haven't seen it Of > all Shakespeare's plays, LLL has probably the least action - it is a…
20 Sep 2001, 21:04
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I think I agree. Though I am unalterably hostile to Lewis for what he did to Susan. I came across Lewis rather late, maybe in my teens or 20s, and never forgave him for that cool, …
18 Aug 2001, 03:29
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Pullamn is a Brit, and as a writer I bet he uses the OED, nor I think does he worry a lot about a word's use being unexpected when it is also correct. Here is the very FIRST, also …
07 Aug 2001, 10:30
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Dan'l, Tony et al, What fun to have stimulated such a lively, informative and entertaining sparring-match! Do carry on. -alga…
04 Aug 2001, 14:15
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The new NYRSF presents, from one Henry Wessells, citing a biography of Mervyn Peake by G. Peter Winnington, the fact that Peake (1911-1968) spent nine of his first eleven years in …
03 Aug 2001, 23:14
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Here's a tasty tidbit from a book called -Celtic Sacred Landscapes-, by Nigel Pennick (p 161): "In the region of Gairloch [in Scotland], the 'old rites' of the divinity Mhor-Ri, '…
20 Jul 2001, 13:59
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