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.... Personally, I rather like the term "interleaving". To me, it makes it sound as if our conversations are collaboratively authoring a book, each page of which is a section. ~m…
01 Sep 2006, 00:07
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I have to ask, why you think it is so marvelous? I read that just last year, and I remember thinking in incomprehension that the judge was a marvelous character, but that the rest …
03 Aug 2006, 00:19
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No, I'm still interested. It's just that I've been having Internet access problems (so I've got ~90! Urth.net email to catch up on), my other projects on Wikipedia proper have been…
26 Jun 2006, 17:04
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To be honest, I'd have to disagree. I own the Compact OED and I've used the disc versions, and the COED is a better choice. The price differential doesn't really justify one over t…
15 Jun 2006, 04:27
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On 5/22/06, b sharp <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote: .... ..... So you think the Cumaean was a single really weird hierodule? Funny- I'd always took it as a message that this…
23 May 2006, 00:13
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I am a dunce. It actually took me a few moments to get this one. ~maru Roi c. lackey…
21 May 2006, 00:44
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Well, I always was struck by one quote from Shadow of the Torturer: as a matter of fact, I first came to Wolfe when I was a kid, and I was casually browsing the first chapters of t…
20 May 2006, 03:27
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messengers are sent to retrieve the knight, but he has already returned to Venusburg, never to be seen again." (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tannh%C3%A4user&oldid=5244…
19 May 2006, 05:54
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Are you sure about that, Adam? In my Collection Fictions, there are some footnotes and interpolations mentioning that where the translator rendered as "infinite", Borges wrote in t…
19 May 2006, 05:51
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.... I'd say that unless we have specific textual evidence to the contrary, we should assume they survived. After all, in the first flood, Noah did not need to carry on the Ark tw…
19 May 2006, 01:49
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Heh. Well, one lamentable process we could always import from Wikipedia is deletion. I'd say so, yeah. The posts/archives are the most comprehensive source I can imagine, short of…
17 May 2006, 07:16
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I don't really like that one. The meanings certainly are nice, but the word is too damn long. Maru, you've asked about what kind of licensing we want. If you think Alright, so t…
15 May 2006, 07:30
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Unfortunately, that's already taken. See the rather nice urticator.net ~maru…
15 May 2006, 07:28
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Perhaps you sent it straight to me? maru dubshinki skrev: Oh, no, no. That's a rather restrictive hierarchy- categories on Wikipedia and as I was thinking of them resemble more d…
15 May 2006, 07:26
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There are always going to be boundary problems, Roy. I don't think they're serious enough to really be an impediment. [snip] Well, why would we bother summarizing such posts into…
15 May 2006, 07:20
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You'll definitely want to look into Castle of the Otter, then, if you haven't already. A lot of those words generalize to other books. ~maru…
15 May 2006, 06:14
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It would be a good idea, but as many people have discovered to their rue on many different wikis, it's hard to force volunteers to do a particular subset of the ToDo list. I know …
10 May 2006, 01:41
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That's perfectly reasonable. I'd put the Reference/Publication data after the synopsis and list of Dramatis Personae myself, snce that's boring stuff, but that's a good start. Abs…
10 May 2006, 01:39
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I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think any wiki we start on Wolfe's work should be categorized tripartitely: One section should be for Urth ML emails. This would m…
09 May 2006, 19:38
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I agree with the others. The only textual support I can possibly see would be the intricate tunnel systems being actually corridors and tubing etc. But that's pretty thin. ~maru…
06 May 2006, 07:38
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Hmm. I don't really know. Does it actually matter? I mean, they are simply different physical editions, and so far as I know, the actual text doesn't vary (and varying texts, in th…
06 May 2006, 07:34
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OK, so that makes me, Jason Willard, Kieran Mullen, and Ranjit Bhatnagar who've expressed interest. Anyone else? ~maru…
03 May 2006, 20:33
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Hm. I'm not that fond of the old wiki engines; I'd rather use mediawiki just because it's better. But we could definitely use your content to start off the Wizard-Knight section. B…
03 May 2006, 20:30
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I'd be glad to handle that, but I couldn't right now- after May I'll have enough spare time I could run that. Of course, if no one else is interested, there's no point. Good wikis …
03 May 2006, 15:03
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Some more links: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Start_a_new_Wikia http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_creation_policy Looking at the reject wikia is instructive: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/…
03 May 2006, 05:40
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*cue the lurking Wikipedia administrator* Certainly you could set up a wiki. Since all of Wolfe's work is unfreely licensed (so far as I know), editor would need to be a little ca…
03 May 2006, 05:25
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Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--a…
17 Apr 2006, 00:20
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Didn't we discuss a while ago? Ah, here we go: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0031/urth.v031.n002.3.shtml Goodness, it's been scheduled to be published since '01? ~Maru…
18 Mar 2006, 21:35
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On 2/21/06, mournings glory <mourningsglory at hotmail.com> wrote: .... I think they are on watch for old things, revenants, things yet to be perhaps... like Jonas. ~Maru…
22 Feb 2006, 02:41
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Some think hethrir caused the riot with a beast. I've also seen suggestions that the guards were trying to get at Jonas. The UotNS has a couple deaths, notably falling down the sh…
21 Feb 2006, 05:47
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Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't they descend from perfection? If they go from perfection to imperfection, then it is not hard to believe that it would be impossible to ever ge…
13 Dec 2005, 15:28
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Oh man- that's so bad one must laugh. But it makes for interesting exercises to spot the references and intentional mistakes, e. g. "Kismet (the Buddhist word for fate)" ~Maru…
16 Sep 2005, 21:15
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Thta is what my edition reads as as well. I've never heard of "The Great Prince Dies". ~Maru…
26 Aug 2005, 14:14
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Not to be snippy, that was what I was asking: if his 'father' has written a whole roomful of books like the lady said, and we are correct in identifying the original as Gene Wolf…
25 Aug 2005, 20:29
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All good points: but what does it mean that Number 5 cannot find any books? If Vinge has a volume in the libary, defintely Wolfe should as well. Which I feel is a strike against …
23 Aug 2005, 21:45
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My thought (and thus problem) exactly. ~Maru…
23 Aug 2005, 21:42
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That quote doesn't actually settle anything. I remember another quote to the effect that Wolfe never actually lies himself. The relevant portion of your nice quote is "could the …
23 Aug 2005, 21:41
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As usual, I've been reading through the archives again; I've noticed that one of the more popular theories for Fifth Head of Cerberus is that the unnamed family is surnamed "Wolf…
22 Aug 2005, 22:55
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Why not indeed- the poem might provide context for the anthology. What do you think, SUSAN? Does that sound too creepy/stalker-ish or no? ~Maru…
12 Aug 2005, 20:21
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/jaw drops. You're kidding, right? ~Maru "First, I thought mountains were mountains; then I learned, and knew that mountains are not mountains. But now, mountains are just mountai…
11 Aug 2005, 19:50
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10 Aug 2005, 21:52
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There is a man of letters by the name of "Seamus Cooney". Cooney is not a common last name at all, and that fellow has at least one of the right initials. But he doesn't appear t…
10 Aug 2005, 19:50
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Amen! This is the sort of thing I was trying to say, but I was afraid would come out sounding all wrong. But Doctorow shows that it works sometimes; we don't know for sure whether…
22 Jul 2005, 20:40
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Well, I was careful to point out that GNU's license was not the only option, that Creative Commons had several different possible licenses, that it was not all-or-nothing (all righ…
22 Jul 2005, 20:28
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Alright, I'm done. Here's the rough draft; critique as you will: Dear Mr. Andre-Driussi: On behalf on the Urth.net mailing list [0], I would like to ask you to re-license ''Lexic…
22 Jul 2005, 11:26
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I did try that. For one the few times ever, interlibrary loan failed me! I don't know what to believe in now. ~Maru…
22 Jul 2005, 10:23
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Argument time! Cory Doctorow, who releases his novels in a multiplicity of formats, many of which are more convenient to read (such as Palm editions), estimates his sales have at …
22 Jul 2005, 10:17
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As long as you mean what I think you mean by 'public license', that's great! Now I can tell mantis that all he has to do is make a simple statement, and we'll do the rest, which i…
22 Jul 2005, 09:55
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Well, that's not perfect, but still not a fatal error; 'year or three', sounds, as you emphasize, like he doesn't really care and is in no particular hurry. Besides, one could make…
22 Jul 2005, 09:50
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What is the status of Lexicon Urthus? Is it still a going concern? 'Cause Sirius says that they are completely and utterly out of LU, they've been so since 2002, there are no plan…
21 Jul 2005, 21:58
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