{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3054", "note": "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.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 3054, "subject": "Sev's Dream QUOTATION", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2002-03-20T01:57:50+00:00", "last": "2002-03-20T14:34:22+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Gage Kerrigan", "address": "willickers_g at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2002-03-20T01:57:50+00:00", "subject": "(urth) RE: Sev's Dream QUOTATION", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Here's Severian's quote... I think somebody asked for\nit yesterday... it adresses his premonition of the\nfuture, both outcomes for Urth, and somebody said that\nit indicated Green or Blue.\n\n\"Two thoughts (that were nearly dreams) obsessed me\nand made them [various events related to nature and\nanimals] infinitely precious. The first was that at\nsome not-distant time, time itself would stop the\ncolored days that had so long been drawn forth like a\nchain of conjuror's scarves come to an end, the sullen\nsun wink out at last. The second was that there\nexisted somewhere a miraculous light - which I\nsometimes conceived of as a candle, sometimes as a\nflambeau - that engendered life in whatever objects it\nfell upon, so that a leaf plucked from a bush grew\nslender legs and waving feelers, and a rough brown\nbush opened black eyes and scurried up a tree.\"\nSeverian (to himself), page 15, chapter II, The Shadow\nof the Torturer.\n\nPs. Your welcome.\n\n«LORD ESN»\n\n=====\nG Willickers\n aka\nGage Kerrigan" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "matthew.malthouse", "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk" }, "date": "2002-03-20T11:55:02+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Sev's Dream QUOTATION", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 20/03/2002 01:57:50 Gage Kerrigan wrote:\nslender legs and waving feelers, and a rough brown\nbush opened black eyes and scurried up a tree.\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oh bugger! Looks like the brush was a bush after all. :( I just\npray there isn't a typo in there. :)\n\nBut then: \"that engendered life in whatever objects it fell upon\" leaves me\nwondering\nwould the bush be dead (hence brown) as a plucked leaf might be?\n\nOh, and \"might be\" because a plucked leaf might someimes grow, vegetative\npropagation.\n\nMatthew" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com" }, "date": "2002-03-20T14:19:26+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Sev's Dream QUOTATION", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Matthew quoted & queried:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "slender legs and waving feelers, and a rough brown\nbush opened black eyes and scurried up a tree.\"" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Oh bugger! Looks like the brush was a bush after all. :( I just\npray there isn't a typo in there. :)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "No, you were right before: it is BRUSH not BUSH.\n\nAt least in the first edition hardcover.\n\nAnd first edition paperback.\n\nAnd Easton Press edition hardcover.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSIRIUS FICTION\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\n54 \"Snake's-hands\" left until OP!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "matthew.malthouse", "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk" }, "date": "2002-03-20T14:34:22+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) RE: Sev's Dream QUOTATION", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 20/03/2002 14:19:26 Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nMatthew quoted & queried:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "slender legs and waving feelers, and a rough brown\nbush opened black eyes and scurried up a tree.\"" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Oh bugger! Looks like the brush was a bush after all. :( I just\npray there isn't a typo in there. :)" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "No, you were right before: it is BRUSH not BUSH.\n\nAt least in the first edition hardcover.\n\nAnd first edition paperback.\n\nAnd Easton Press edition hardcover." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Thankyou Mantis. So /somone/ can't type and my earlier comment may stand,\nat least until someone comes along with a more rigourous demolition job.\n\nSo Marc, we really do have a brush - an inanimate object made animate not\na plant become animal.\n\n\nMatthew" } ] } ] }