Posted from 8 addresses as Alice Turner, Alice K. Turner, akt, aturner3
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sting 20 years ago might have been quite good in a lizardy way. The Doctor is John Sessions who has had a rich career in British comedy. He was really splendid, my other favorite t…
04 Jul 2001, 13:04
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