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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": 5269, "subject": "Random Wolfe spottings", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "2008-12-09T10:38:58+00:00", "last": "2008-12-09T20:09:17+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigelaprice at talktalk.net" }, "date": "2008-12-09T10:38:58+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Random Wolfe spottings", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Gwern Branwen wrote..." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "\"BUYING A HORSE\nIf its feet are no good, other virtues will be wasted.\nGene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois\"\n\nHm!\n\nAnother Google search reveals no hits; does anyone\nrecognize what the source for this might be?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "The short answer is \"No,\" but the vague and not terribly helpful longer\nanswer is \"Hmmm, that rings a bell...\"\n\nIt could be from either of the first two soldier books, but I think it's\nfrom \"The Wizard Knight\".\n\nNigel" } ] }, { "message_id": "<493ECE4F.8060908@verizon.net>", "from": { "name": "David Stockhoff", "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net" }, "date": "2008-12-09T20:00:15+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Random Wolfe spottings", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "*Really useful stuff!\n\nYes, Wizard Knight feels like the right answer. How about the rest of them?\n\nI'm not sure if that last one is because the bullet travels faster than \nsound, or something else is meant. Surely you can hear a gunshot and be \nwounded ...\n\n\n158* Books thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb\n*BUYING A GOOD BOOK \n*\nIf you're considering buying a book, open it at random and read a page. \nDo this three times. If you haven't stumbled onto a vital part of the \nstory at least once, don't buy the book.\nGene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois\n(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections\nCurrent Rating: * 4.8 * out of * 10 * based on * 18 * reviews\nComments (1) \n \n Mail It \n \nYou must login to Rate.\n\n*1248* Horses thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb\n*BUYING A HORSE \n*\nIf its feet are no good, other virtues will be wasted.\nGene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois\n(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections\nCurrent Rating: * 5.8 * out of * 10 * based on * 15 * reviews\nComments (0) \n \n Mail It \n \nYou must login to Rate.\n\n*1745* Language thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb\n*TRANSLATING GREEK \n*\nIf you can't identify a word in a Greek sentence, it is a verb with a \nprefix. To figure it out, go through the lexicon chopping off one letter \nfrom the front at a time.\nGene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois\n(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections\nCurrent Rating: * 5.6 * out of * 10 * based on * 30 * reviews\nComments (1) \n \n Mail It \n \nYou must login to Rate.\n\n*1894* Weapons thumb thumb thumb thumb\n*SHOOTING AN AUTOMATIC PISTOL \n*\nWhen an automatic pistol malfunctions, try a new brand of ammunition and \na new magazine before taking it to a gunsmith.\nGene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois\n(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections\nCurrent Rating: * 4.2 * out of * 10 * based on * 14 * reviews\nComments (1) \n \n Mail It \n \nYou must login to Rate.\n\n*2297* Military thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb\n*DODGING BULLETS \n*\nIf you hear the shot, it won't kill you.\nGene Wolfe, Barrington, Illinois\n(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections\nCurrent Rating: * 5 * out of * 10 * based on * 14 * reviews\nComments (0) \n \n Mail It \n \nYou must login to Rate." } ] }, { "message_id": "<4659.67.142.130.34.1228853357.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2008-12-09T20:09:17+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Random Wolfe spottings", "in_reply_to": "<493ECE4F.8060908@verizon.net>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "*Really useful stuff!\n\nYes, Wizard Knight feels like the right answer. How about the rest of\nthem?\n\nI'm not sure if that last one is because the bullet travels faster than\nsound," }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Yes. If there are a lot of gunshots going off at once, you may not even be\nable to clearly distinguish the one associated with the bullet that hit\nyou seconds ago. What you hear are the supersonic whistles of the bullets\ngoing past (and of course if one hits you you won't hear that one)." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": " or something else is meant. Surely you can hear a gunshot and be\nwounded ..." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Unless you are very close, you can be wounded and then hear a gunshot, the\nother way doesn't work.\n\n\n." } ] } ] }