# Wolfe hunting *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 17 Apr 2006* > 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. --- ### maru dubshinki *17 Apr 2006, 00:20* Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--anabiosis Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/anabiosis.html Goldfish are routinely frozen in blocks of ice for shipment. A few die, but most survive. This has been a common practice for many years." Is this the Wolfe, or is there another with an equal interest in occult words? ~maru pondering forbidden knowledge. --- ### Matt DeLuca *17 Apr 2006, 03:01 · in reply to maru dubshinki* coincidence i bet > On 4/16/06, maru dubshinki wrote: > Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of > the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: > > "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) > Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--anabiosis > Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/anabiosis.html > > Goldfish are routinely frozen in blocks of ice for shipment. A few die, > but most survive. This has been a common practice for many years." > > Is this the Wolfe, or is there another with an equal interest in occult words? > > ~maru > pondering forbidden knowledge. > _______________________________________________ --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *17 Apr 2006, 05:18 · in reply to Matt DeLuca* Rather than coincidence, I suspect a Wolfe fan who took that address _because_ s/he is a Wolfe fan, and shares his interest in rare and unusual words. > On 4/16/06, Matt DeLuca wrote: > coincidence i bet > > On 4/16/06, maru dubshinki wrote: >> Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of >> the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: >> >> "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) >> Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--anabiosis >> Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/anabiosis.html >> >> Goldfish are routinely frozen in blocks of ice for shipment. A few die, >> but most survive. This has been a common practice for many years." >> >> Is this the Wolfe, or is there another with an equal interest in occult words? >> >> ~maru >> pondering forbidden knowledge. >> _______________________________________________ ---