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Have you read _Operation Ares_? Perhaps an outlier, but definitely political. Sunanda…
02 Jul 2010, 14:19
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La Befana (short story) has an "ideal" two parent + two kids + incoming grandmother family. With only a six-legged alien as a neighbour. The War beneath the Tree is a slow-burnin…
08 Jun 2006, 16:11
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In his Acknowledgements, Neil Gaiman writes: "I took the best line of dialogue in the epilogue from Gene Wolfe, to whom, my thanks" (Headline, UK paperback edition) Any ideas wh…
25 Apr 2002, 09:11
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errors at lists1.ba.best.com writes: Harness probbaly means the sum of the two numbers. Throws that add up to seven: 1-6, 6-1 2-5, 5-2 3-4, 4-3 That's 6 out of 36, or 1 out of 6. …
15 Dec 2001, 08:41
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The Shorter Oxford gives a noun form: "A grumble, a complaint; a reason for grumbling". And the very next definition (along the lines of "wicked") is "Austral. & NZ slang.E20. …
11 May 2001, 11:59
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Hi Alex, Well, Wolfe quotes the Buddhist text pretty straight (if that is what he is doing; he's a tricky writer to pin down), but the Ascians are using the teaching to create a…
04 Sep 1999, 21:13
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Hi, I'm new too, and the archive search doesn't seem to work for me, so I don't know if the Buddhist side of the Ascians has been discussed before. I know nothing about Zoroastri…
03 Sep 1999, 15:34
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