# A52 "The God and His man" (ES) *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 15 Dec 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. --- ### Alice Turner *15 Dec 1999, 04:26* > Furthermore: A51 { aka "The God and His Man,"collected in ES)might have > some relevance to OBW; Zed, although just a > sketch, seems rather like Blue (and the adventures that narrator has there > are rather like those that Man has on Zed). Plus, a special bonus for > alga: direct applications to THE DEEP. Huh? No, I can't quite buy the DEEP ref. Wolfe's tone here is facetious; Crowley is not facetious, though he does have a kind of learning-obsessed sophomoric irony--and I hope not to be probed for the difference. But you are right, right on for the OBW ref. to "TGaHM." More than you yet know . More than I know! It seems a tired, sarcastic late-night meditation on the ridiculousness of having chosen this peculiar genre of children's adventure fiction to transform into something worth reading, thinking about in a serious way. But he persevered, didn't he? And we're here. Bwt, I am bowing out of the FAQ or non-FAQ. Unless, perhaps, as happened on the usenet FAQ that I happily collaborated on (alt.mythology), we assign different areas to different people and let them do them as they think right. That worked like a charm for us--we had different areas of expertise or interest, and when there was an overlap we were civilized about compromise--but (a) we were initially quite selective about who we asked to collaborate (that wouldn't work here) and (b) the guy who organized was organizational (awesomely) in a non-confrontational way. -alga ---