# Digest urth.v030.n200 *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 31 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. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *31 Oct 2001, 15:58* >> 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. > "In addition [to Scleroderma's account], there was a man in Urbasecundus > who was said to have produced a similar book, although I had never seen > it." Slow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the "man in Urbasecundus" is Gene Wolfe, and the "similar book" is _his_ text of the BotLS. Duh. --Dan'l --- ### Michael Straight *31 Oct 2001, 19:05 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > Slow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the "man in Urbasecundus" > is Gene Wolfe, and the "similar book" is _his_ text of the BotLS. Which should make you wonder about the differences between Wolfe's version and Horn's... -Rostrum --- ### Jerry Friedman *31 Oct 2001, 21:24 · follows Michael Straight* >>> --- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: >>> 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. >> "In addition [to Scleroderma's account], there was a man in >> Urbasecundus >> who was said to have produced a similar book, although I had never >> seen >> it." > Slow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the "man in > Urbasecundus" > is Gene Wolfe, and the "similar book" is _his_ text of the BotLS. > > Duh. Well, at least it hit you without your being told. I didn't get it even with Mantis's hint (Chicago). What I e-mailed to Brian the Invisible Librarian was that it was presumably about Urbs, but I think I should correct that. Maybe just Pseudo-Author: a man from Urbasecundus Pseudo-Title: unknown Comments: another history of the same events ``` Jerry Friedman ``` ---