# Introduction *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Nov 2002* > 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. --- ### Fr Kipling Cooper *02 Nov 2002, 12:43* Greetings! How I got here: I first started TBotNS shortly after all four volumes were released through the SF Book Club, and thought to my horror, that I had mistakenly picked up 'Finnegan's Wake.' (Or something with an equally innovative use of vocabulary) So I rid myself of them at my next move, and read no further Wolfe until earlier this year. While investigating classic SF, and what was accounted as such, 5th HEAD OF CERBERUS and TBotNS frequently appeared, so when I found an anthology with the short story/novella/novellette 5th Head, I had a read and discovered to my astonishment that it was written in English, and written VERY WELL! Over the last 6 months I have also finished CASTLEVIEW and SOLDIER OF THE MIST and am restarting TBotNS, finding it much less daunting that 10+ years ago. I have greatly appreciated the archives of this mailing list, especially while reading MIST. I am glad to be here. ``` Kipling+ ASCII Ribbon Campaign () Against HTML Email /\ -- ``` --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *02 Nov 2002, 17:39 · follows Fr Kipling Cooper* Welcome Kipling! Glad you found the place! =mantis= ---