# Digest urth.v031.n003 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 Nov 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. --- ### Alice Turner *17 Nov 2001, 17:32* > Do the people at Lingua Franca know about this nascent field of study? > They recently ran an article on P.K. Dick's academic admirers (and > Dick's treatment of them). Lingua Franca just died. This week. -alga --- ### Nigel Price *18 Nov 2001, 00:19 · follows Alice Turner* Concerning the BBC's "Walking with Beasts", Jerry Friedman asked: >> Sounds like fun. But no flightless birds? >> You won't be able to see how >> Thecla stalked? Oh yes, lots of flightless birds, particularly in the first episode. Nigel ---