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On 2008.09.29 09:03:48 -0700, Matt Teel <adeodatus43 at yahoo.com> scribbled 4.4K characters: I've always taken this scene as serving several purposes. For starters, it is just a…
30 Sep 2008, 00:33
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On 2008.09.21 20:05:52 -0400, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> scribbled 3.2K characters: I wouldn't be so sanguine about people not killing infants and youngsters. …
22 Sep 2008, 23:45
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On 2008.09.21 18:40:08 -0400, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> scribbled 3.4K characters: I've not enjoyed EG yet, but the moment someone mentioned 'defective', I im…
21 Sep 2008, 22:56
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On 2008.08.08 14:38:27 -0600, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> scribbled 0.6K characters: Well, it would handle my objection, yes. But since there is no license in place (or …
08 Aug 2008, 22:52
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On 2008.08.08 16:32:53 +0100, Mo Holkar / UKG <lists at ukg.co.uk> scribbled 0.7K characters: I see. They ought to be pushed to discuss it, and sooner rather than later - the long…
08 Aug 2008, 15:58
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On 2008.08.07 03:48:32 -0700, Fred Kiesche <recursive_loop at yahoo.com> scribbled 1.8K characters: I haven't read that book, but could 'Prolog' be a reference to the Prolog progr…
07 Aug 2008, 13:28
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On 2008.07.23 09:08:06 -0400, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> scribbled 1.3K characters: I dunno, I mean - aren't cakes made of bread (even if cake is meant in the conf…
26 Jul 2008, 23:13
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On 2008.07.22 17:48:53 -0500, "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> scribbled 0.5K characters: Is it just me, or do 'small cakes' scream Eucharist to anyone else?…
23 Jul 2008, 12:34
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On 2008.07.20 16:51:26 -0400, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> scribbled 6.5K characters: ... Well, actually, since you brought it up... I always understood the Shrike …
21 Jul 2008, 14:52
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On 2008.07.03 04:22:36 -0400, dcooperv <dcooperv at mail.rochester.edu> scribbled 0.7K characters: http://netsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000356.html ?…
12 Jul 2008, 04:28
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On 2008.07.02 22:18:02 -0600, Gary <stuff at oreb.net> scribbled 2.0K characters: ... Well, it would be balanced - the 'groove' runs up the middle of the blade, which gets you sy…
12 Jul 2008, 04:19
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On 2008.07.02 17:00:41 -0500, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> scribbled 0.2K characters: Honestly, I think everyone is overcomplicating Terminus Est. Everything about its constru…
02 Jul 2008, 22:17
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On 2008.07.02 01:16:38 -0500, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> scribbled 4.5K characters: I've never entirely understood why the mercury channel would be difficult. Here's how…
02 Jul 2008, 13:48
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On 2008.06.08 23:15:11 -0500, "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net> scribbled 2.7K characters: ... I'm not sure this is useful to know. Of course he has reason to keep an eye on…
10 Jun 2008, 02:48
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On 2008.05.12 20:35:18 +0100, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> scribbled 3.8K characters: Start with _Fourth Mansions_, if you don't want to pick up one of the short…
12 May 2008, 20:19
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On 2008.04.24 19:20:22 +0200, Pavel Baki? <pavelbak at gmail.com> scribbled 2.4K characters: The OED records no special features for 'Urth'; it's just an obscure variation on 'Ear…
24 Apr 2008, 17:43
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On 2008.04.12 18:24:00 -0500, Steven Hall <sghall at comcast.net> scribbled 2.2K characters: It's at least chronologically possible. _Peace_ was 1975, and apparently the abridged …
13 Apr 2008, 05:34
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On 2008.03.07 12:37:30 -0800, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> scribbled 0.8K characters: As I was walking down the stairs, I saw a list which wasn't there. I saw the list…
07 Mar 2008, 20:50
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On 2008.02.05 14:24:34 -0500, aaron <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> scribbled 2.8K characters: I wouldn't go off half-cocked, if I were you. The situation is not 100% clear. Reading…
05 Feb 2008, 22:14
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On 2008.01.17 18:01:57 +0000, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> scribbled 1.0K characters: Actually, if you do go, I would love for you to get some more pictures and …
17 Jan 2008, 20:13
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On 2008.01.17 12:20:21 -0600, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> scribbled 2.3K characters: When it was described, the way I thought it was done was like this: swords sometimes …
17 Jan 2008, 19:44
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On 2008.01.16 19:29:27 -0500, brunians at brunians.org scribbled 0.5K characters: Yes. I was surprised when I happened to be reading a book on torture and other judicial punishmen…
17 Jan 2008, 01:01
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On 2007.12.24 04:30:29 -0600, Todd <heliumhead at charter.net> scribbled 3.5K characters: Perhaps that was exactly it? Suppose he gave Agilus Terminus Est. He could hardly go to T…
08 Jan 2008, 02:22
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On 2007.12.20 00:57:12 -0600, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> scribbled 1.9K characters: Would that've been necessary? The New Sun was en route for an awful long time. Plenty long…
08 Jan 2008, 02:10
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On 2007.12.18 11:51:47 -0600, Dan <autarch at vippn.com> scribbled 4.3K characters: OK, here's another sticking point for me. We both agree Typhon's decline was swift, and so it's…
20 Dec 2007, 05:11
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On 2007.12.19 00:17:57 -0500, stoneox17 at aol.com scribbled 1.8K characters: But doesn't that present the same problem? Yes, perhaps Sev1 and Sev2 both saved the Green Man and so…
20 Dec 2007, 04:07
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On 2007.12.17 13:12:39 -0600, Dan <autarch at vippn.com> scribbled 4.9K characters: Perhaps I missed something (I've not read Long or Short sun as thoroughly as I should have), bu…
17 Dec 2007, 22:00
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On 2007.12.16 22:01:24 -0600, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> scribbled 4.3K characters: That *might* work. It's been used in hard sci-fi before; I think particularly of Baxter's X…
17 Dec 2007, 04:44
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On 2007.12.14 12:31:50 -0500, stoneox17 at aol.com scribbled 2.0K characters: That would make sense. Fomalhaut is a red star, "its name means "mouth of the whale", from the Arabic…
14 Dec 2007, 19:49
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On 2007.12.01 07:45:16 +1100, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com scribbled 0 lines: ... Wolfe is a Catholic, and I believe the pithy formulation is 'salvation by faith alone', and not w…
01 Dec 2007, 01:56
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On 2007.11.17 09:04:50 -0500, Transentient <transentient at gmail.com> scribbled 0 lines: How about "epigraph"? <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Epigraph_%28literat…
17 Nov 2007, 16:23
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On 2007.11.15 14:13:09 +1000, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> scribbled 0 lines: Yes, but couldn't the terminology as easily be due to the translation of tBotNS into Engl…
16 Nov 2007, 02:17
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On 2007.11.15 09:48:09 -0600, Eric Ortlund <eortlund at briercrest.ca> scribbled 0 lines: ... I didn't think Isangoma was not frightened by it. Doesn't Robert specifically say to …
16 Nov 2007, 02:03
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On 2007.11.14 13:26:21 -0600, Eric Ortlund <eortlund at briercrest.ca> scribbled 0 lines: ... I've thought that they didn't really travel. The naked native is named Isangoma, whi…
15 Nov 2007, 02:28
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On 0, Sean Lackey <zeppelin at texas.net> scribbled: They might well not have been. I quote a section from the Wikipedia article on Lafferty: *"Apocryphal Passage of the Last Ni…
22 Jul 2007, 21:39
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On 0, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> scribbled: Start with ''Fourth Mansions'' for a good almost-mainstream immersion in Lafferty-style paranoia and story tellin…
21 Jul 2007, 19:13
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On 0, aaron <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> scribbled: And the captain isn't kidding about the bleeding to death thing. I remember the phrase 'soil erosion' popping up a distressin…
16 Jul 2007, 12:41
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On 0, Mo Holkar / UKG <lists at ukg.co.uk> scribbled: If you do ask, make sure you get a decent license for the corpus. Copyright is a very treacherous thing, with many arbitrary…
14 Jul 2007, 06:39
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On 0, don doggett <kingwukong at yahoo.com> scribbled: In the same vein, one of the few writers I've found who does Lovecraftiana well is strangely enough, Charles Stross.. His b…
19 Jun 2007, 20:11
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don doggett <kingwukong at yahoo.com> writes: But what about aleatory literature? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatory#Literature Or does God really play dice?…
14 Apr 2007, 18:40
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"James B. Jordan" <jbjordan4 at cox.net> writes: To be facetious for a moment, doesn't it make perfect sense for the godplaying dead man to be Wolfe, the author of the story? Af…
04 Apr 2007, 15:37
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