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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": 3857, "subject": "Full of Hot Air + +", "messages": 6, "voices": 5, "first": "2003-02-19T15:58:58+00:00", "last": "2003-02-20T02:05:58+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "MBS 808", "address": "mbs808 at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2003-02-19T15:58:58+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Full of Hot Air + +", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "1) There is a GW short story about a hot air balloon. \nWhat is it called (or even about)? I believe it is in\nEndangered Species but I am far from certain.\nIn the introduction, GW says something about a writing\nexercise -- what if something was invented much\nearlier than it was? Any other story fit this general\n\"writing exercise\" format?\n\n2) Reading over the posts, I get a general sense of\nthe novels that are favored, but which collection of\nshorter works stands ahead from the pack? This is not\na call for an offlist poll, unless people want one...\n\n3) As a teen in the mid 1980's, I discovered GW in my\nlocal library (in Montreal). I was puzzled because\nthe library had the first three volumes of the Book of\nthe New Sun but not the final volume (it had already\nbeen published, at least in hardcover).\nYears later in another Montreal library, I discovered\nthe same thing - volumes 1-3, but not the finale.\n\nAny ideas why or just random circumstances,\ncoincidence?" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Andy Robertson", "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk" }, "date": "2003-02-19T16:10:38+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Full of Hot Air + +", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\"Against the Lafatette Escadrille\" I think (spelling dicy)\n\n hartshorn\n\n----- Original Message ----- " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"MBS 808\" \n1) There is a GW short story about a hot air balloon. \nWhat is it called (or even about)? I believe it is in\nEndangered Species but I am far from certain." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Josh Geller", "address": "dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net" }, "date": "2003-02-19T16:46:22+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Full of Hot Air + +", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Andy Robertson wrote:\n\"Against the Lafatette Escadrille\" I think (spelling dicy)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Lafayette.\n\nThis is a great story, or prose poem or whatever it is exactly.\n\nOne of my very favorites.\n\nMy wife knows how to do Flash animation, and it has always been in the\nback of my mind to do an animated version of either this or Last Day, but\nso far the actual will to do so has eluded me. Perhaps some day.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com" }, "date": "2003-02-19T16:35:47+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Full of Hot Air + +", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Hartshorn wrote:\n\"Against the Lafatette Escadrille\" I think (spelling dicy)\n\n hartshorn\n\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"MBS 808\" " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "1) There is a GW short story about a hot air balloon.\nWhat is it called (or even about)? I believe it is in\nEndangered Species but I am far from certain." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Good guess, but I think \"Straw\" (collected in STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL)\nis the one in question.\n\n=mantis=" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Josh Geller", "address": "dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net" }, "date": "2003-02-19T17:57:36+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Full of Hot Air + +", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nHartshorn wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "From: \"MBS 808\" " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "\"Against the Lafatette Escadrille\" I think (spelling dicy)" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "1) There is a GW short story about a hot air balloon.\nWhat is it called (or even about)? I believe it is in\nEndangered Species but I am far from certain." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Good guess, but I think \"Straw\" (collected in STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL)\nis the one in question." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Oh probably.\n\nAnother good story.\n\nNot, in my opinion, on the same level as 'Against The Lafayette\nEscadrille', but good.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Jeff Veyera", "address": "teflon93 at cox.net" }, "date": "2003-02-20T02:05:58+00:00", "subject": "RE: (urth) Full of Hot Air + +", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Actually, I just happened to have read it. It's called \"Straw\", from Storeys\nfrom the Old Hotel, about what would happen had the hot air balloon been\ninvented in 500 AD.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: MBS 808 [mailto:mbs808 at yahoo.com]\nSent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:59 AM\nTo: urth at urth.net\nSubject: (urth) Full of Hot Air + +\n\n\n1) There is a GW short story about a hot air balloon.\nWhat is it called (or even about)? I believe it is in\nEndangered Species but I am far from certain.\nIn the introduction, GW says something about a writing\nexercise -- what if something was invented much\nearlier than it was? Any other story fit this general\n\"writing exercise\" format?\n\n2) Reading over the posts, I get a general sense of\nthe novels that are favored, but which collection of\nshorter works stands ahead from the pack? This is not\na call for an offlist poll, unless people want one...\n\n3) As a teen in the mid 1980's, I discovered GW in my\nlocal library (in Montreal). I was puzzled because\nthe library had the first three volumes of the Book of\nthe New Sun but not the final volume (it had already\nbeen published, at least in hardcover).\nYears later in another Montreal library, I discovered\nthe same thing - volumes 1-3, but not the finale.\n\nAny ideas why or just random circumstances,\ncoincidence?" } ] } ] }