# spot check Invisible Library *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Oct 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *25 Oct 2001, 15:53* > 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)'? > 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. > And is there > anything relevant in "Parkroads: a Review"? Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then "Parkroads" should be in it. [snip] > 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) > 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] > 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] > 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] > Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen) > Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin > Pseudo-Title: Sixpence for Buns > Comments: Obscure British novelist's first novel (1918?). > Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen) > Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin > Pseudo-Title: Brideshead > Comments: Published before 1947. > Title: John Glaskin (in Bibliomen) > Pseudo-Author: John Glaskin > Pseudo-Title: You Can't Go Home at All > Comments: Published before 1937. > 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 Friedman *26 Oct 2001, 12:27 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* >> --- Michael Andre-Driussi 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. >> 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_. >> And is there >> anything relevant in "Parkroads: a Review"? > Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then "Parkroads" > should be in it. Got it. > [snip] >> 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. >> 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 ``` ---