# Props to Ultan's Library, also Death and the Maiden *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Apr 2001* > 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. --- ### Dan Parmenter *12 Apr 2001, 17:27* Ultan's Apprentice writes: > I'd like to announce that Ultan's Library, the webpage > containing articles and reviews of GW's work has been > updated (finally!). It should be easier on the eyes > now, but we also have a new article by Jeremy > Crampton. Please take a look. > > URL: > http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/ultan Great stuff, as always. I haven't fully absorbed Jeremy Crampton's article yet, but it seems fascinating, complete with completely non-gratuitous quotes from Foucault ;-) Jeremy's topic reminds me that I saw an interesting film recently with vaguely Wolfean overtones: Death and the Maiden, based on a play by the very odd Ariel Dorfman. It features a healer who may also be a torturer with much discussion of the ways that one can become the other, several unreliable witnesses and an unsatisfying, ambiguous ending. Sigourney Weaver is quite good as a woman in an unnamed South American country who was tortured as a political prisoner (for "confessional" reasons, though our tortuer, who takes pleasure in his work, seems to have something of Gurloes in him too). It's rather melodramatic and much of it is prickly and uncomfortable, but I found it quite compelling nonetheless even with its faults. Your mileage may vary. Shellac ---