Digest urth.v030.n200 The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 31 Oct 2001 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2842 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, by subject match 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, by subject match 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------