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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 1324, "subject": "More Days (was Re: (urth) Forlesen -- Thoughts?)", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "1999-01-12T12:38:44+00:00", "last": "1999-01-12T16:13:32+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Straight", "address": "straight at email.unc.edu" }, "date": "1999-01-12T12:38:44+00:00", "subject": "More Days (was Re: (urth) Forlesen -- Thoughts?)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Kevin J. Maroney wrote:\nAt 11:11 AM 1/12/99 -0500, Alex wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Easter would be _Seven American Nights_, I think. Or perhaps _The Detective \nof Dreams_, but the first is my choice..." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "\"Seven American Nights\" hands-down. \"Detective of Dreams\" is a Christian\nstory, but \"Seven American Nights\" actually has an Easter procession in it. " }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yes, very good.\n\nHow about \"Detective of Dreams\" for Epiphany and \"Westwind\" for\nWhitsunday?\n\nI can't quite bring myself to suggest \"All the Hues of Hell\" for the Feast\nof the Annunciation. Ick.\n\nAny ideas for Ash Wednesday? I'd suggest \"Peace\" if it weren't a novel.\nMaybe \"The Packerhaus Method\"? \"Peritonitis\"?\n\n-Rostrum" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Mark Millman", "address": "mark_millman at hmco.com" }, "date": "1999-01-12T13:56:16+00:00", "subject": "Re: More Days (was Re: (urth) Forlesen -- Thoughts?)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Tuesday, 12 January 1999,\nMichael Straight (Rostrum) wrote:\nI can't quite bring myself to suggest\n\"All the Hues of Hell\" for the Feast\nof the Annunciation. Ick.\n\nAny ideas for Ash Wednesday? I'd\nsuggest \"Peace\" if it weren't a novel.\nMaybe \"The Packerhaus Method\"?\n\"Peritonitis\"?\n\n-Rostrum" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oh, no, Rostrum. \"Peritonitis\" should\ndefinitely be Mother's Day, but I have\nthe same reservations about actually\nmaking that suggestion as you do\nabout using \"All the Hues of Hell\" for\nthe Feast of the Annunciation.\n\nMaybe we should choose \"Suzanne\nDelage\" or \"House of Ancestors\" in-\nstead.\n\n(This, of course, assumes that the\nholiday isn't already filled, as I don't\nhave the book with me. But I think\nWolfe only has Father's Day in the\n_Book of Days_, no?)\n\nMark Millman" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Alex David Groce", "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu" }, "date": "1999-01-12T16:13:32+00:00", "subject": "Re: More Days (was Re: (urth) Forlesen -- Thoughts?)", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Tuesday, 12 January 1999,\nMichael Straight (Rostrum) wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "I can't quite bring myself to suggest\n\"All the Hues of Hell\" for the Feast\nof the Annunciation. Ick.\n\nAny ideas for Ash Wednesday? I'd\nsuggest \"Peace\" if it weren't a novel.\nMaybe \"The Packerhaus Method\"?\n\"Peritonitis\"?\n\n-Rostrum" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Oh, no, Rostrum. \"Peritonitis\" should\ndefinitely be Mother's Day, but I have\nthe same reservations about actually\nmaking that suggestion as you do\nabout using \"All the Hues of Hell\" for\nthe Feast of the Annunciation.\n\nMaybe we should choose \"Suzanne\nDelage\" or \"House of Ancestors\" in-\nstead.\n\n(This, of course, assumes that the\nholiday isn't already filled, as I don't\nhave the book with me. But I think\nWolfe only has Father's Day in the\n_Book of Days_, no?)\n\nMark Millman" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\tYes, only Father's Day. \"Seven American Nights\" is definitely the way\nto go for Easter--it has an Easter procession, of course, but I think the theme\nis definitely resurrection (whether a diabolic parody of resurrection or the\nreal thing is another matter...) Anyway, it's an egg story, hence Easter.\n\n\tDetective of Dreams was only suggested because it does end with\nCommunion, after all.\n\n\tHmmm... I think if it wasn't already taken (holiday, not story) that\n\"Sillhoutte\" is sufficiently creepy for Halloween (PEACE would also do--when my\nmother read it, I told her a very important thing was to figure out what genre\nit was... A long time later, she said \"OH! It's a ghost story.\")" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\" - John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)\nSenior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)\n'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President\n608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366\nhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce" } ] } ] }