# Cybele, with bluebonnets *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 06 Aug 2003* > 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. --- ### Ron Crown *06 Aug 2003, 14:53* Has anyone read this book by Charles Harness (published by NESFA Press)? I mention it because it's reminiscent of There Are Doors--written in a kind of magic realism with classical allusions, the same themes of lost love, death, and transcendence, etc., etc. Which may explain why Gene Wolfe was asked to provide a blurb which he did in highly laudatory fashion ("There are perhaps a thousand wonderful books. Most of us are fortunate if we so much as hear the titles of them in the course of a lifetime. Very few of us ever touch the covers of more than half a dozen. This is one of them.") Exaggerated but it's still a delightful little read. It's also a lot more overtly (ostensibly) autobiographical. I especially enjoyed the hilarious description of the Battle of San Jacinto--the first person narrator is a Texan (as are both Harness and Wolfe, for that matter). Ron Crown Saint Louis University --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *06 Aug 2003, 15:51 · follows Ron Crown* H'mmm. I'll have to look for this. Harness's THE ROSE is, imio, one of the absolutely indispensible books of the stfnal heritage. ---