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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2089",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 2089,
    "subject": "Haunted Boardinghouse",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-01-25T12:14:54+00:00",
    "last": "2000-02-16T22:09:22+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0722@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-25T12:14:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Haunted Boardinghouse",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Now, is there anyone who would be so kind as to translate all the Latin\nbits in \"The Haunted Boardinghouse\"? [I know that some of it is explained\nin context, but I can't come up with a good guess for some of the phrases\ntowards the end].\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\tNow there is a story that left me confused! It reminded me of an episode\nof the Simpsons, starting at one place, moving a lot of other places, and\nwinding up a different story altogether. I've got to reread it and see if I\ncan pick up thematic continuity. Anybody want to share an analysis with us?\n\tAny connection with the boardinghouse in *Free Life Free*? Both are\n\"America.\" Are there Wizard of Oz allusions in \"Haunted B.\"?\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0803@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-16T10:17:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Haunted Boardinghouse",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0722@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "Maybe someone made this point already, but I'm pretty slow these days.\n\tAt any rate, in this story we have a labyrinthine building, a library, a\nmurder mystery, and lots of latin phrases. Sound a famous novel by another\nRoman Catholic writer? Anybody find any roses in \"The Haunted Boardinghouse\"?\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0804@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jack and Melissa Holcomb",
        "address": "jackandmel at socket.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-16T22:09:22+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Haunted Boardinghouse",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0803@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Maybe someone made this point already, but I'm pretty slow these days.\nAt any rate, in this story we have a labyrinthine building, a library, a\nmurder mystery, and lots of latin phrases. Sound a famous novel by another\nRoman Catholic writer? Anybody find any roses in \"The Haunted\nBoardinghouse\"?\n\nNutria"
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          "text": "Hi. I'm new here, and I haven't yet read the story in question, so this is\nan impertinent response from the get-go--but those elements (labyrinth,\nlibrary, murder mystery) are bits that Eco borrowed (intertextualized?) from\nBorges for _The Name of the Rose_.  The labyrinthine building/library thing\nis a very big deal for Borges-- see \"The Library of Babel,\" \"The Garden of\nForking Paths,\" \"Death and the Compass,\" all in _Labyrinths_.  (Also, the\nlibrarian in _Rose_ is George de Burgos, or something like that -- an alter\nego for Borges.  Blind, too.)\n\nI've been thinking about Borges and Wolfe a bit recently -- it's actually\none of the reasons I subscribed to this list.  I just got hold of the\n_Lexicon Urthus_ and was kind of surprised to see no mention of \"The\nCircular Ruins\" in the discussion of the Theseus story from the brown book.\nThe first few pages seem like a very clear allusion to that Borges story, to\nme.  Plus there's Baldanders, and the _Book of the New Sun_ is set mostly in\nArgentina, Borges' homeland.  Can anyone point me toward a more thorough\ntreatment of Borges and Wolfe, esp. in the Book?\n\nThanks for listening.\n\nJack Holcomb\njackandmel at socket.net"
        }
      ]
    }
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