# CE *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 15 Oct 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *15 Oct 1998, 13:20* Well, actually, corncrake, I was speaking Buddhistically. Note that I said "next life," not "next world." Heh heh. >> The transcription is done entirely by volunteers. If any of you has >> access >> to a university library with the CE (the site helpfully lists locations >> for >> you) and a scanner, you will build up merit in the next life by helping >> them >> out. > Oh, that's neat. If you're a Protestant, and believe in justification > by faith alone, you don't need the merit, and don't get to transcribe > the Catholic Encyclopedia. > (Well, maybe GW would appreciate the joke. I'm sure Borges would.) -alga --- ### Alice Turner *18 Oct 1998, 21:00 · follows Alice Turner* Thanks, Alex, for the CE "Severus" and "Severian." Actually, I think I prefer the lite OED version, where one can fill in the blanks oneself. -alga --- ### Alex David Groce *18 Oct 1998, 21:23 · follows Alice Turner* No problem (I typed both in during office hours as no students showed up.) I agree that the entries don't exactly elucidate anything the OED doesn't. Simon Magus is a little longer and will have to wait until later (and with or without the article it's clear he's the type for Cyrix). It's interesting to examine the differences between that and Severian's jungle "magic duel." Sev. handles "heathens" and "heretics," if you will, differently--although the distinguishing factor is situational, rather than based on any larger principle (which makes sense, Severian being a kind of idiot savant most of the time with respect to his miraculous abilities). > alga wrote: > > Thanks, Alex, for the CE "Severus" and "Severian." Actually, I think I > prefer the lite OED version, where one can fill in the blanks oneself. ``` "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu) Senior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction) '98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President 608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce ``` ---