spot check Invisible Library

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Oct 2001
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2840

Michael Andre-Driussi25 Oct 2001, 15:53original
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Okay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's already been posted, here's what I've got. Any other names for Blaine, the forger of The Lusty Lawyer, and Kinglake, the author of The Death of Love?
Oops. Blaine is not the forger, Louis Gold is the forger of THE LUSTY LAWYER by "Amanda Ros": so should the pseudo-author be '"Amanda Ros" (Louis Gold)'?
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Is that really an apostrophe in Tcove', or an accent?
It is an accent over the e. In addition, there is a chevron (or whatchamacallit) over the o.
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And is there anything relevant in "Parkroads: a Review"?
Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then "Parkroads" should be in it. <g> [snip]
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Author: Gene Wolfe Title: Peace Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold Pseudo-Title: THE BOOK THAT BINDS THE DEAD (or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF THE DEAD, or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF DEATH or THE NECRONOMICON) Comments: A spurious Lovecraftian NECRONOMICON by a character in PEACE
Pseudo-Author: "Unknown" (Louis Gold)
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Title: Peace Pseudo-Author: Blaine? Psuedo-Title: The Lusty Lawyer Comments: Another forgery, this time of a book announced but never published by the real-life author Amanda Ros (fl. c. 1900), notorious for her painfully purple prose
Pseudo-Author: "Amanda Ros" (Louis Gold) [snip]
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Title: "Useful Phrases" (in Strange Travelers) Pseudo-Author: unknown Pseudo-Title: Tohish Ablar Sens-Orriyya Ert ("Useful Phrases for Piteous Visitors to Earth") Comments: A phrase book for travelers, written in the alien language Tcove'.
That's "T-c-o^-v-e'" [snip]
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Title: The Book of the Long Sun Pseudo-Author: Scleroderma Pseudo-Title: unknown Comments: a manuscript on history that the author witnessed
On "Vironese history" might be more clear. Title: The Book of the Short Sun Pseudo-Author: (the guy from Chicago--how did that one go?) Pseudo-Title: unknown Comments: another manuscript on Vironese history that the author witnessed [snip]
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Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen) Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin Pseudo-Title: Sixpence for Buns Comments:
Obscure British novelist's first novel (1918?).
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Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen) Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin Pseudo-Title: Brideshead Comments:
Published before 1947.
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Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen) Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin Pseudo-Title: You Can't Go Home at All Comments:
Published before 1937.
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Title: Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D. (in Bibliomen) Pseudo-Author: Kirk Patterson Arthurs Pseudo-Title: Fiction in Fancy Dress: John Glaskin et al Exposed (1996) Comments: Glaskin a fiction.
Glaskin himself a fiction, created by a Ph. D. candidate. [snip] =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/
Jerry Friedman26 Oct 2001, 12:27original

↳ follows, by subject match Michael Andre-Driussi

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--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote: Okay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's already been posted, here's what I've got. Any other names for Blaine, the forger of The Lusty Lawyer, and Kinglake, the author of The Death of Love?
Oops. Blaine is not the forger, Louis Gold is the forger of THE LUSTY LAWYER by "Amanda Ros": so should the pseudo-author be '"Amanda Ros" (Louis Gold)'?
I must have misunderstood an earlier post.
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Is that really an apostrophe in Tcove', or an accent?
It is an accent over the e. In addition, there is a chevron (or whatchamacallit) over the o.
Circumflex. Here I thought you were French! (Or a probably bilingual child of French immigrants, or something.) But then you probably thought I'd read Peace.
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And is there anything relevant in "Parkroads: a Review"?
Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then "Parkroads" should be in it. <g>
Got it.
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Author: Gene Wolfe Title: Peace Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold Pseudo-Title: THE BOOK THAT BINDS THE DEAD (or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF THE DEAD, or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF DEATH or THE NECRONOMICON) Comments: A spurious Lovecraftian NECRONOMICON by a character in PEACE
Pseudo-Author: "Unknown" (Louis Gold)
The author of the "real" Necronomicon in Lovecraft is named Abdul Alhazred, so I think this one would be clearest as "Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold, writing as Abdul Alhazred". Unless the Lovecraft Necronomicon in Peace is described as anonymous. I'll insert another two commas into the list of pseudo-titles above.
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Title: Peace Pseudo-Author: Blaine? Psuedo-Title: The Lusty Lawyer Comments: Another forgery, this time of a book announced but never published by the real-life author Amanda Ros (fl. c. 1900), notorious for her painfully purple prose
Pseudo-Author: "Amanda Ros" (Louis Gold)
Again the pseudo-author has a pseudonym. Your version makes sense, but I think it's clearer as "Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold, writing as Amanda Ros" Has anyone suggested that either of these books might be The Book of Gold? ... I'll include all your other corrections and clarifications. Oh--any hints on where in TBotSS I should look for the history by the guy from Chicago? I have only a vague memory of that.
Jerry Friedman

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