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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": 4148, "subject": "Double Dactyls, Anyone?", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "2003-08-06T16:31:12+00:00", "last": "2003-08-07T18:36:16+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "katbarx at hotmail.com" }, "date": "2003-08-06T16:31:12+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Double Dactyls, Anyone?", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Though you might not think it to look at my list output, I've been in a \nterrible writer's block\nfor over a year, which broke recently and all sorts of stuff has been \npouring out (rather like\nthe fellow in the \"Calliope\" issue of THE SANDMAN). Which includes these -- \ndon't ask me\nwhy, but I woke up this morning with the beginnings of these, uh, things \nringing in my\naural cortex.\n\n Higglety-pigglety, Alice K. Turner\n considered Wolfe, Crowley, Wynne-Jones and Jack Vance\n endlessly pondering, microbotanically,\n whether their novels were plotted by chance.\n\n Hoccitus-poccitus, Andre-Driussi,\n while publishing volumes of erudite lore,\n on Gene Wolfe's vocabular armamentaria\n hoped that the market might bear a few more.\n\nOkay, I'll shut up now ..." } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "James Wynn", "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com" }, "date": "2003-08-06T20:37:34+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Double Dactyls, Anyone?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Nice job, Dan'l.\n\nWe should all hope to deserve one day to be so immortalized in song.\n\nCrush\n\n----- Original Message ----- " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes\" \nTo: \nSent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:31 AM\nSubject: (urth) Double Dactyls, Anyone?\nThough you might not think it to look at my list output, I've been in a\nterrible writer's block\nfor over a year, which broke recently and all sorts of stuff has been\npouring out (rather like\nthe fellow in the \"Calliope\" issue of THE SANDMAN). Which includes\nthese -- \ndon't ask me\nwhy, but I woke up this morning with the beginnings of these, uh, things\nringing in my\naural cortex.\n\n Higglety-pigglety, Alice K. Turner\n considered Wolfe, Crowley, Wynne-Jones and Jack Vance\n endlessly pondering, microbotanically,\n whether their novels were plotted by chance.\n\n Hoccitus-poccitus, Andre-Driussi,\n while publishing volumes of erudite lore,\n on Gene Wolfe's vocabular armamentaria\n hoped that the market might bear a few more.\n\nOkay, I'll shut up now ...\n\n--Blattid\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nSTOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*\nhttp://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail\n\n\n-- " } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Alice K. Turner", "address": "aturner6 at nyc.rr.com" }, "date": "2003-08-06T20:58:07+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Double Dactyls, Anyone?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Okely-dokely, ever so grateful,\nkind of you, Dan'l Daheny-Oakes.\nCan you please, notwithstanding extra-legality,\novernight first-class some of them smokes?\n\n-alga\n\n----- I woke up this morning with the beginnings of these, uh, things " }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "ringing in my\naural cortex.\n\n Higglety-pigglety, Alice K. Turner\n considered Wolfe, Crowley, Wynne-Jones and Jack Vance\n endlessly pondering, microbotanically,\n whether their novels were plotted by chance.\n\n Hoccitus-poccitus, Andre-Driussi,\n while publishing volumes of erudite lore,\n on Gene Wolfe's vocabular armamentaria\n hoped that the market might bear a few more.\n\nOkay, I'll shut up now ...\n\n--Blattid\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nSTOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* \nhttp://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail\n\n\n-- " } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "William Ansley", "address": "wansley at warwick.net" }, "date": "2003-08-07T18:36:16+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Double Dactyls, Anyone?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Ah, double dactyls. As I recall I first came across this verse form in an \nIsaac Asimov essay.\n\nYou have inspired me Dan'l. Here is my own modest effort.\n\nClickety-Clackety\nWriter Gene Rodman Wolfe\nReally ranks up with a\nScintillant few.\n\nBut wearing sheep's clothing\nScientifictional,\nHe almost never is\nGiven his due.\n\n\nWilliam Ansley" } ] } ] }