# Ola, all *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Sep 1999* > 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. --- ### shannon wilde *12 Sep 1999, 20:38* Hey, all. I'm new here, but I've been a long time Wolfe nutcase, and not wholly dim-hope i can keep up with the marvelous brainiacs in this rarefied bunch. What with the new release fast approaching, it seemed like time to quit my shy lurkiness and get in there and quibble. Not only that, but i've seen so many of my favorites(non-lupine)mentioned, ie. The Quincunx to Vance to Love+Rockets, the full sublime to goofy spectrum-I can no longer resist. Oh, yeah, and alga, I too have suspected that Sev is in fact the Outsider-A dark twoheaded figure, but one of the faces seemed female? Sounds like our boy, not Typhon. Can't quote chapter and verse since sone troid permanently borrowed my LS series-thanks to y'all for the rerelease tip. You've probably all discussed this ad infinitum and I missed it, but I'll try to get up to speed. Is the nickname custom still vogue? Whoosh, I'd better quell my enthusiasm till i've got something to say-but wow, other people who dig Wolfe and non-crap fiction-water in a sand garden for me. One worry, I'm currently using yahoo until I have a real service that I can configure properly, so Please forgive me if the format fubars-I am but a newbie. Shuttin up now-Shannon. ---