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In a recent XKCD comic, Darth Vader rediscovers the azoth: http://xkcd.com/1433/…
14 Oct 2014, 14:56
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Things are getting noisy on the urth list. Please slow down! I've asked (ok, required) certain users to take a break from posting. - ranjit…
04 Aug 2010, 19:24
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The urth list is getting way too busy these days, so I'm gonna lay down the law again. Please send any comments or complaints directly to me <ranjit at moonmilk.com> rather than t…
07 Jun 2010, 20:43
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Here comes the Argument From Authority! As list owner, I hereby decree: Mark Twain's forthcoming memoirs are a reasonable topic of discussion here, but don't go overboard. It's …
24 May 2010, 16:50
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Forwarded from a concerned reader... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nessun Sapra Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:30 AM Subject: Gene Wolfe Hi there, I am not sure if…
03 May 2010, 14:33
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I'm starting a new thread for the music stuff so it doesn't get mixed in with the political stuff. I'll set up a space on urth.net for sharing mp3s and such, if the project takes …
06 Nov 2008, 21:32
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Is anyone else here watching the current remake of Battlestar Galactica? I was amusing myself by thinking of parallels between the cylons and the imhumi. -r…
11 Jun 2008, 18:28
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Apologies to everyone who pointed out the broken links on the urth.net homepage -- and even told me how to fix them -- over the last few months. I was overwhelmed by work, but I f…
01 Apr 2008, 15:16
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Let this be a lesson - beware of Quechup! It's not Bryan's fault that this message went out; he probably didn't know when he signed up that Quechup automatically spams everyone in…
04 Sep 2007, 00:44
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I've been hosting the urth mailing list (formerly whorl) for ten years now (!), and I'm afraid that for most of that time, I haven't been able to give it the attention it deserves.…
10 Nov 2006, 18:02
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Here's the official word from the list owner (me!) -- Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED Talking about email formattin…
01 Sep 2006, 19:30
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I worry that I've missed some obvious counter-argument, but it seems to me that Appian and Paeon are one and the same. Roy quoted: "I knew what he was" -- he was the Autarch, pla…
28 Aug 2006, 19:05
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Apologies from the message from Mr Ike Collins. You can tell he's a fraud because he didn't use a Viron-style nickname. I'll try not to let any more of these get onto the list. …
10 Dec 2002, 15:34
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The Urth list is operating again. If you wrote a message in the interval, you'll have to send it again. - Ranjit…
08 Dec 2002, 19:52
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The Urth mailing list is taking a few days off, until the weekend. Please hold off on posting until then, since your messages may be lost. -- Ranjit, list operator…
05 Dec 2002, 05:47
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Something funny is going on with the mailing list software, and I've asked the system administrator to look into it. If you send a message that gets rejected, try again in a day o…
18 Apr 2002, 19:11
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I can't resist reposting this, which I wrote in '95: I was listening to k.d. lang's album "Ingenue" when I realized that the first side of the album is clearly taken from the _Bo…
02 Mar 2002, 17:03
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If I got everything working right, the mailing list archives on the web site are now updated daily. There'll be a new volume each month, and I may forget to manually update the …
17 Feb 2002, 23:35
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I finally got the mailing list archives up to date through the end of last year. I'll have recent postings up there too, as soon as I figure out how. Give me a few more weeks. …
11 Feb 2002, 04:37
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As many of you have remarked, the new Urth list's digest format appears as a series of attachments rather than a single long message. Depending on your mail software, this may be …
31 Jan 2002, 02:11
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Dear Urth and Whorl list subscribers, If this reaches you, then I have managed to bring the new Urth list online at last. Welcome! The new Urth list replaces both Urth and Whorl…
29 Jan 2002, 04:23
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The majority opinion seems to be: one list. So it shall be, when Urth is reborn. But the guy who's setting up the new list for me seems to have gone off on vacation, so if the cu…
23 Dec 2001, 17:43
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The majority opinion seems to be: one list. So it shall be, when Urth is reborn. But the guy who's setting up the new list for me seems to have gone off on vacation, so if the cu…
23 Dec 2001, 17:43
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540008-2001551489,00.html…
10 Dec 2001, 22:21
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...but I don't have the details yet. Everything should be pretty much the same, except with a different email address for contributions, and slightly different commands for subscr…
07 Dec 2001, 15:38
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...but I don't have the details yet. Everything should be pretty much the same, except with a different email address for contributions, and slightly different commands for subscr…
07 Dec 2001, 15:38
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The server that hosts the Urth and Whorl mailing lists is going to be shut down next week, so I'm moving them to a new home. I'll be moving the archives too, and hopefully getting…
06 Dec 2001, 00:43
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The server that hosts the Urth and Whorl mailing lists is going to be shut down next week, so I'm moving them to a new home. I'll be moving the archives too, and hopefully getting…
06 Dec 2001, 00:43
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Feel free to take over the URTH list for Crowley discussions, if you like. It's on-topic ("New Sun and related works") and there's not much traffic there these days. And have any…
18 Apr 2001, 01:06
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Feel free to take over the URTH list for Crowley discussions, if you like. It's on-topic ("New Sun and related works") and there's not much traffic there these days. And have any…
18 Apr 2001, 01:06
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I didn't think of Babbie having more than the usual quantity of eyes until that bit with the spectacles, but now I imagine his face as being like that of a spider (8 legs!), with t…
13 Mar 2001, 23:55
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The Neighbors have two heads each? I'd love to see a reference. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
12 Mar 2001, 23:46
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Maybe they're off to see the Shrike, the wonderful Shrike of Hyperion. -r. (Follow the Aureate Path! Follow the Aureate Path!)…
28 Feb 2001, 13:10
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I shall lay down the law: Go ahead and discuss Return to the Whorl. I haven't read it yet, but it's only three down in the pile. Don't put in spoiler space but please do put a w…
05 Feb 2001, 10:17
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Studious Wolfologists will be glad to know that the urth and whorl archives are now searchable. http://www.urth.net/urth/search/ Get those dissertations finished! Ranjit…
25 May 1999, 17:16
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For almost a year I've been struggling to make room in my web account for the urth and whorl archives -- every two weeks or so I'd have to throw away something else to get the quot…
22 May 1999, 21:53
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Today is the second anniversary of the opening of the Urth list on April 5, 1997. Since that day we've written almost 7 megabytes or about 2000 pages. To put this into perspect…
05 Apr 1999, 13:34
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OK, I see you all are getting restless, so I'm getting my act together and trying to make the list archives more searchable. As an experiment I've split URTH volumes 1-22 into ind…
30 Jan 1999, 19:37
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We do learn of one thing: Quetzal banned human sacrifice. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.…
02 Nov 1998, 23:54
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Rostrum: I assume that, just as Wolfe explained that /terminus est/ is not really Latin but a language as archaic to speakers of Severian's language as Latin is to Engl…
30 Oct 1998, 21:04
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I need someone to take care of the Urth and Whorl mailing lists while I'm on vacation for two weeks. The only real responsibility is to unsubscribe anyone who accidentally flood…
14 Jul 1998, 10:29
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After skimming over months of discussion, I finally got around to reading my copy of _Fifth Head_ -- the receipt, still stuck in the book, is dated May 1988. I had a year ago re…
22 Jun 1998, 12:59
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Marty Light writes: Amazon.com lists Endangered Species as "out of stock" and Planet Engineering as "out of print." The implication is that the former might be reprinted soon but…
15 Jun 1998, 16:30
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The Baba Yaga Gardens Cooperative Apartment Association. -r.…
15 Jun 1998, 14:35
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I'd like to remind everyone that the archives of the Urth and Whorl mailing lists are available on the web at http://www.urth.net/urth/archives and http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/…
27 May 1998, 12:00
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I wrote this in 1995. The article's entirely tongue-in-cheek, but the coincidences are uncanny! By the way, it's a good album even outside of the eerie New Sun connections.…
05 Mar 1998, 10:25
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The Whorl/Urth web site is temporarily inaccessible at moonmilk.volcano.org because someone forgot to pay the volcano bill. However, the site can still be reached at http://www.…
23 Feb 1998, 17:13
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The Whorl/Urth web site is temporarily inaccessible at moonmilk.volcano.org because someone forgot to pay the volcano bill. However, the site can still be reached at http://www.…
23 Feb 1998, 17:13
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Am I misguided or stating the obvious in guessing that Reechy grew up to be Ymar? Coulda saved a chiliad or two if Ymar'd been the Conciliator. r.…
28 Jan 1998, 18:49
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This week marked the first anniversary of the WHORL mailing list (unless I misplaced a decimal point somewhere). Thanks to all who have contributed over the past year! Activity o…
28 Nov 1997, 20:48
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