{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3928", "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": 3928, "subject": "Lexicon Urthus", "messages": 4, "voices": 3, "first": "2003-04-12T18:19:48+00:00", "last": "2003-04-13T14:58:02+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Matt DeLuca", "address": "archdragon at wotmania.com" }, "date": "2003-04-12T18:19:48+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Lexicon Urthus", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "You guys know if this book can be found online at all??? I know the author is an active member of this list server and I was wondering what he thinks ?\n\n_____________________________________________________________\nhttp://wotmania.com\nfeed your wot addiction" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com" }, "date": "2003-04-12T19:44:56+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Lexicon Urthus", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Matt DeLuca wrote:\nYou guys know if this book can be found online at all??? I know the author\nis an active member of this list server and I was wondering what he thinks" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I do not know about the availabilty of standard copies, but I've been\nauctioning-off \"less-than-perfect\" copies on eBay. (Each one has all the\npages, is legible, and all that. It is just that some were \"hurt\" in\nshipping, others have manufacturing oddities.)\n\nThe \"Z\" series (hurt books) had 12 copies and each sold for around $20\n(plus shipping). The \"Y\" series (manufacturing oddities -- mainly a front\ncover that is visibly longer than the back cover) has 17 copies and the\nfirst auctions will start in about a week. The Y series is the last of it,\nand in a month or two they should be all gone.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/\n\neBay Auctions\nhttp://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=mr.sirius" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Jeff Wilson", "address": "jwilson at io.com" }, "date": "2003-04-12T23:36:01+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Lexicon Urthus", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From:\nMichael Andre-Driussi \nThe \"Z\" series (hurt books) had 12 copies and each sold for around $20\n(plus shipping). The \"Y\" series (manufacturing oddities -- mainly a front\ncover that is visibly longer than the back cover) has 17 copies and the\nfirst auctions will start in about a week. The Y series is the last of it,\nand in a month or two they should be all gone." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Mine has note testifying to both symptoms - Is this some hybrid ZY beastie?\n\n(thank you, by the way, belated though it is!)\n\nJEff" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jeff Wilson - http://www.io.com/~jwilson\n\n\n-- " } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com" }, "date": "2003-04-13T14:58:02+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Lexicon Urthus", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Writing about the Z and Y series, Jeff Wilson asked:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Mine has note testifying to both symptoms - Is this some hybrid ZY beastie?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "More like yours is the annonymous ancestor to all the others, the first to\nescape the \"to burn box\"! (I really was going to destroy them, as you know\n-- it is just my soft heart and the terrible sense of waste that kept me\nreceptive to another way, and eBay auctions seem to be perfect.)\n\nThat was before the taxonomies of Z and Y were discovered. OTOH, it is\npossible for a given book to have both symptoms, it is just that the Y is\ndominant for determining whether a book is Z or Y.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/\n\neBay Auctions\nhttp://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=mr.sirius" } ] } ] }