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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 2840, "subject": "spot check Invisible Library", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "2001-10-25T15:53:22+00:00", "last": "2001-10-26T12:27:28+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com" }, "date": "2001-10-25T15:53:22+00:00", "subject": "(urth) spot check Invisible Library", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Okay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's already\nbeen posted, here's what I've got. Any other names for Blaine, the forger\nof _The Lusty Lawyer_, and Kinglake, the author of _The Death of Love_?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oops. Blaine is not the forger, Louis Gold is the forger of THE LUSTY\nLAWYER by \"Amanda Ros\": so should the pseudo-author be '\"Amanda Ros\" (Louis\nGold)'?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Is that really an apostrophe in Tcove', or an accent?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "It is an accent over the e. In addition, there is a chevron (or\nwhatchamacallit) over the o." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": " And is there\nanything relevant in \"Parkroads: a Review\"?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then \"Parkroads\" should\nbe in it. \n\n[snip]" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Author: Gene Wolfe\nTitle: Peace\nPseudo-Author: Louis Gold\nPseudo-Title: THE BOOK THAT BINDS THE DEAD (or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF\nTHE DEAD, or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF DEATH or THE NECRONOMICON)\nComments: A spurious Lovecraftian NECRONOMICON by a character in PEACE" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Pseudo-Author: \"Unknown\" (Louis Gold)" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: Peace\nPseudo-Author: Blaine?\nPsuedo-Title: The Lusty Lawyer\nComments: Another forgery, this time of a book announced but never\npublished by the real-life author Amanda Ros (fl. c. 1900), notorious for\nher painfully purple prose" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Pseudo-Author: \"Amanda Ros\" (Louis Gold)\n\n[snip]" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: \"Useful Phrases\" (in Strange Travelers)\nPseudo-Author: unknown\nPseudo-Title: Tohish Ablar Sens-Orriyya Ert (\"Useful Phrases for\nPiteous Visitors to Earth\")\nComments: A phrase book for travelers, written in the alien language\nTcove'." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "That's \"T-c-o^-v-e'\"\n\n[snip]" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: The Book of the Long Sun\nPseudo-Author: Scleroderma\nPseudo-Title: unknown\nComments: a manuscript on history that the author witnessed" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "On \"Vironese history\" might be more clear.\n\nTitle: The Book of the Short Sun\nPseudo-Author: (the guy from Chicago--how did that one go?)\nPseudo-Title: unknown\nComments: another manuscript on Vironese history that the author witnessed\n\n[snip]" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen)\nPseudo-Author: John Glaskin\nPseudo-Title: Sixpence for Buns\nComments:" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Obscure British novelist's first novel (1918?)." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen)\nPseudo-Author: John Glaskin\nPseudo-Title: Brideshead\nComments:" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Published before 1947." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen)\nPseudo-Author: John Glaskin\nPseudo-Title: You Can't Go Home at All\nComments:" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Published before 1937." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Title: Kirk Patterson Arthurs, Ph.D. (in Bibliomen)\nPseudo-Author: Kirk Patterson Arthurs\nPseudo-Title: Fiction in Fancy Dress: John Glaskin et al Exposed (1996)\nComments: Glaskin a fiction." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Glaskin himself a fiction, created by a Ph. D. candidate.\n\n[snip]\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nHas Moved To\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Jerry Friedman", "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2001-10-26T12:27:28+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) spot check Invisible Library", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "--- Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nOkay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's\nalready\nbeen posted, here's what I've got. Any other names for Blaine, the\nforger\nof _The Lusty Lawyer_, and Kinglake, the author of _The Death of Love_?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Oops. Blaine is not the forger, Louis Gold is the forger of THE LUSTY\nLAWYER by \"Amanda Ros\": so should the pseudo-author be '\"Amanda Ros\"\n(Louis\nGold)'?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I must have misunderstood an earlier post." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Is that really an apostrophe in Tcove', or an accent?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "It is an accent over the e. In addition, there is a chevron (or\nwhatchamacallit) over the o." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Circumflex. Here I thought you were French! (Or a probably bilingual\nchild of French immigrants, or something.)\n\nBut then you probably thought I'd read _Peace_." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": " And is there\nanything relevant in \"Parkroads: a Review\"?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then \"Parkroads\"\nshould be in it. " }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Got it." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "[snip]" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Author: Gene Wolfe\nTitle: Peace\nPseudo-Author: Louis Gold\nPseudo-Title: THE BOOK THAT BINDS THE DEAD (or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF\nTHE DEAD, or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF DEATH or THE NECRONOMICON)\nComments: A spurious Lovecraftian NECRONOMICON by a character in PEACE" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Pseudo-Author: \"Unknown\" (Louis Gold)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The author of the \"real\" _Necronomicon_ in Lovecraft is named Abdul\nAlhazred, so I think this one would be clearest as \"Pseudo-Author: Louis\nGold, writing as Abdul Alhazred\". Unless the Lovecraft _Necronomicon_ in\n_Peace_ is described as anonymous.\n\nI'll insert another two commas into the list of pseudo-titles above." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Title: Peace\nPseudo-Author: Blaine?\nPsuedo-Title: The Lusty Lawyer\nComments: Another forgery, this time of a book announced but never\npublished by the real-life author Amanda Ros (fl. c. 1900), notorious\nfor\nher painfully purple prose" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Pseudo-Author: \"Amanda Ros\" (Louis Gold)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Again the pseudo-author has a pseudonym. Your version makes sense, but I\nthink it's clearer as \"Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold, writing as Amanda Ros\"\n\nHas anyone suggested that either of these books might be _The Book of\nGold_?\n ...\n\nI'll include all your other corrections and clarifications.\n\nOh--any hints on where in TBotSS I should look for the history by the guy\nfrom Chicago? I have only a vague memory of that." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jerry Friedman" } ] } ] }