# Count Dead Narrators *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 23 Oct 1997* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *23 Oct 1997, 21:06* Reply: Item #8438872 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Re: "two dead heroes are okay, three or four are obsessive" or whatever the numbers were, heh-heh, not to be too much of a mischief maker, but let's count: 1. "The Dead Man" 2. PEACE 3. "The Other Dead Man" 4. THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN 5. "The Changeling"? 6. "Checking Out" 7. "Forlesen" (another of my top favorites) 8. "The Packerhaus Method" 9. "Peritonitis" 10. "To the Dark Tower Came"? 11. "V.R.T." of FIFTH HEAD? (More a case of assumed identity?) Did I leave any out? Or overstate? Surely I must be overstating it! =mantis= --- ### adam louis stephanides *24 Oct 1997, 14:45 · follows m.driussi* > On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 urth-errors at lists.best.com wrote: > From: m.driussi at genie.com > Subject: (urth) Count Dead Narrators > Re: "two dead heroes are okay, three or four are obsessive" or > whatever the numbers were, heh-heh, not to be too much of a mischief > maker, but let's count: I have to admit, I hadn't realized there are so many, but it does seem to me you've overstated a bit: > 4. THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN Should having died and been resurrected be considered in the same category as being dead throughout the story? > 7. "Forlesen" (another of my top favorites) I would tend to doubt this, though I could be wrong. > 8. "The Packerhaus Method" The protagonist dies in the course of the story, so perhaps again shouldn't be in the same category. > 9. "Peritonitis" It's not exactly the hero who's dead here. > 10. "To the Dark Tower Came"? > 11. "V.R.T." of FIFTH HEAD? (More a case of assumed identity?) I'd say the latter, since it is a living man impersonating a dead man. > Did I leave any out? Or overstate? Surely I must be overstating it! > > =mantis= --Adam ---