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----- Original Message ----- The "princess and the glass hill" by andrew lang http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=LanBlue.sgm&images=image s/modeng&data=/texts/eng…
07 May 2002, 21:00
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Ah, No I did misread. The dream of mouldy bread I thought indicated a break between days (grey mould on bread - a hint of ergotomine and hallucinogenics?). Rerereading I see it's a…
07 May 2002, 17:39
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When I read the story I counted 7 Nights, so never had to try and account for a missing DAY. Unless I misread, or Americans have some other way of counting off days and nights, Nad…
07 May 2002, 17:18
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----- Original Message ----- Rab as a contraction of rabbi? Contraction of Robert? Apparently Sammon as a surname is 1. a contraction of Solomon. 2. a varient of Salmon. 3. a var…
01 May 2002, 22:46
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For more on Sallis - www.jamessallis.com Sallis started off as one of the New-Wavers when he moved to London, associated with the "New Worlds" set, and two stories in Harlan Ellis…
15 Apr 2002, 04:23
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The "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" quote is from Shelley, not Auden. "Poet" in Greek means "maker", so poets _are_ the creators of our world, in as much th…
31 Mar 2002, 13:26
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Found the original reference online here: http://www.sfsite.com/fm/show.html?rw,bestof2001-jeff,1 Look at the internal clues... Most of the books he recommends are kosher but I ha…
11 Feb 2002, 16:12
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It was mentioned in one of Fantastic Metropolis's end of the year round-ups. Mike Moorcock got various authors to contribute and it was an interesting exercise, not least because q…
11 Feb 2002, 02:10
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If you want to read LOTR as one of the last gasp of anglo-catholic feudalism then you couldn't go amiss reading it alongside "Brideshead Revisted" (in fact now I remember that Hump…
03 Jan 2002, 03:05