{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1346", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 1346, "subject": "Coover", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "1999-01-27T09:13:11+00:00", "last": "1999-01-28T14:16:11+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "David_Lebling", "address": "david_lebling at avid.com" }, "date": "1999-01-27T09:13:11+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Coover", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"Alex David Groce\" \n And one last thing--somewhere, I can't recall where, Wolfe said that\nRobert Coover's baseball book (HENRY J. WAUGH, something or other\nUNIVERSAL\nBASEBALL ASSOCIATION) is one of his favorite novels." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "That's _The Universal Baseball Association, Inc; J. Henry Waugh,\nProprietor_. Also one of _my_ favorite books. It should be required\nreading for \"subcreators,\" gameplayers, and dungeoneers.\n\n -- Dave Lebling\n (aka vizcacha)" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Alex David Groce", "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu" }, "date": "1999-01-27T10:19:54+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Coover", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On Jan 27, 9:13am, David_Lebling at avid.com wrote:\n And one last thing--somewhere, I can't recall where, Wolfe said that\nRobert Coover's baseball book (HENRY J. WAUGH, something or other\nUNIVERSAL\nBASEBALL ASSOCIATION) is one of his favorite novels." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "That's _The Universal Baseball Association, Inc; J. Henry Waugh,\nProprietor_. Also one of _my_ favorite books. It should be required\nreading for \"subcreators,\" gameplayers, and dungeoneers." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\tAh, that's it. It's been years since I read it. Great book--much more\nsatisfying, IMO, than Coover's short fiction.\n\tWe should also throw in works used in Wolfe stories, such as \"Mary\nRose\" and the Vidal play (can't recall the title) from SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS." }, { "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" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Kevin J. Maroney", "address": "kmaroney at crossover.com" }, "date": "1999-01-27T10:52:45+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Coover", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Coover is an amazing genius; _The Public Burning_ is one of the Great\nAmerican Novels. " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 10:19 AM 1/27/99 -0500, Alex wrote:\nWe should also throw in works used in Wolfe stories, such as \"Mary\nRose\" and the Vidal play (can't recall the title) from SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "_Visit to a Small Planet_. \n\nIncidentally, while doing some background research for a piece we ran on\n\"Seven American Nights\" a couple of years back, we at NYRSF redisovered\nsomething which John Kessel had first pointed out to me back in 1986:\nVidal's play, as published, does not match up with the play as presented in\n\"Seven American Nights\". \n\nWe were not able to determine if the differences could be traced to the\n(known) multiple versions of the screenplay--there were at least two and\npossibly three significantly different versions (two different televised\nversions, neither of which seems to be identical to the version published\nin book form). It is possible Wolfe based his version on one of the\ntelevised versions, or it is possible that the text \"drifted\" between now\nand the future of \"Seven American Nights\". " }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": " Kevin Maroney | Crossover Technologies \n kmaroney at crossover.com | (212) 777-1190" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Patri10629", "address": "patri10629 at aol.com" }, "date": "1999-01-28T14:16:11+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Re: COOVER", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Surprised to learn Wolfe digs Coover.\n\nMy favorite Coover by far is PRICKSONGS AND DESCANTS.\n\nPatrick O'Leary" } ] } ] }