{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6695", "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": 6695, "subject": "wolfewiki", "messages": 7, "voices": 5, "first": "2014-11-03T15:46:55+00:00", "last": "2014-11-04T10:17:31+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<0DA454A32913114C9CC19BB781FB907D015530@ETSUMB2.etsu.edu>", "from": { "name": "Norwood, Frederick Hudson", "address": "norwoodr at mail.etsu.edu" }, "date": "2014-11-03T15:46:55+00:00", "subject": "(urth) wolfewiki", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe I’ve read, “The Tree is My Hat”. I found these questions:\n\n\n * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?\n * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?\n * Who dunnit?\n * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?\nDoes anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions?\n\nRick" } ] }, { "message_id": "<5448FB9701805FB4@rgout05.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk>", "from": { "name": "Mo Holkar", "address": "mo at holkar.net" }, "date": "2014-11-03T16:12:37+00:00", "subject": "(urth) wolfewiki", "in_reply_to": "<0DA454A32913114C9CC19BB781FB907D015530@ETSUMB2.etsu.edu>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Hi Rick,\n\nThose are 'dummy' questions that are set up in \nthe 'new page' template that's used whenever a \npage is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's \nthat's not yet been covered, as examples of the \nsorts of things that might be asked. The idea is \nthat they should be replaced by relevant \nquestions about the work under examination: but \noften the page gets added before such questions \nhave been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for quite a while.\n\nAnyone coming across the page is encouraged to \nadd questions, or answers, themselves, based on \ntheir familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can \nedit the wiki pages, once they've created an account.)\n\nI think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up \nwith those particular dummy questions and \nimmortalized them in the template\n although it was a long time ago now!\n\nbest wishes,\n\nMo" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote:\nMarc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the \nwolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe \nI???ve read, ???The Tree is My Hat???. I found these questions:\n\n * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?\n * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?\n * Who dunnit?\n * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?\nDoes anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions?\n\nRick\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2014-11-03T17:25:16+00:00", "subject": "(urth) wolfewiki", "in_reply_to": "<0DA454A32913114C9CC19BB781FB907D015530@ETSUMB2.etsu.edu>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "For what it's worth, the first three questions are the lyrics to a\nparticularly bad Genesis song..." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:\nHi Rick,\n\nThose are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template\nthat's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's\nthat's not yet been covered, as examples of the sorts of things that might\nbe asked. The idea is that they should be replaced by relevant questions\nabout the work under examination: but often the page gets added before such\nquestions have been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for\nquite a while.\n\nAnyone coming across the page is encouraged to add questions, or answers,\nthemselves, based on their familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can edit\nthe wiki pages, once they've created an account.)\n\nI think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up with those particular dummy\nquestions and immortalized them in the template? although it was a long\ntime ago now!\n\nbest wishes,\n\nMo\n\n\n\nAt 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki. I looked up the\nmost recent Wolfe I???ve read, ???The Tree is My Hat? . I found these\nquestions:\n\n * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?\n * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?\n * Who dunnit?\n * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?\nDoes anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions?\n\nRick\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<5453AC04005F9DB0@rgout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk>", "from": { "name": "Mo Holkar", "address": "mo at holkar.net" }, "date": "2014-11-03T18:11:10+00:00", "subject": "(urth) wolfewiki", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "gah! -- I wish I still didn't know that.\n\nNeed some eschatology in there too :-)\n\nMo" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 17:25 03/11/2014, you wrote:\nFor what it's worth, the first three questions \nare the lyrics to a particularly bad Genesis song...\n\nOn Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mo Holkar \n<mo at holkar.net> wrote:\nHi Rick,\n\nThose are 'dummy' questions that are set up in \nthe 'new page' template that's used whenever a \npage is added to the wiki about a work of \nWolfe's that's not yet been covered, as examples \nof the sorts of things that might be asked. The \nidea is that they should be replaced by relevant \nquestions about the work under examination: but \noften the page gets added before such questions \nhave been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for quite a while.\n\nAnyone coming across the page is encouraged to \nadd questions, or answers, themselves, based on \ntheir familiarity with the work. (Any visitor \ncan edit the wiki pages, once they've created an account.)\n\nI think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up \nwith those particular dummy questions and \nimmortalized them in the template\n although it wass a long time ago now!\n\nbest wishes,\n\nMo\n\n\n\nAt 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote:\nMarc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the \nwolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe \nI????ve read, ????Th????The Tree is My Hat??? . I found these questions:\n\n? ? * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?\n? ? * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?\n? ? * Who dunnit?\n? ? * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?\nDoes anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions?\n\nRick\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<54589974.4050805@clueland.com>", "from": { "name": "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com", "address": "jwilson at clueland.com" }, "date": "2014-11-04T09:16:36+00:00", "subject": "(urth) wolfewiki", "in_reply_to": "<5453AC04005F9DB0@rgout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 11/3/2014 12:11 PM, Mo Holkar wrote:\ngah! -- I wish I still didn't know that.\n\nNeed some eschatology in there too :-)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I think the fourth question covers that, actually." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >\nA&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab\n< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Matthew King", "address": "automatthew at gmail.com" }, "date": "2014-11-04T09:29:20+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Wolfewiki default questions", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I think you should add:\n\nI want to know if it's meant anything. If what I suffered -- if it's been worth it." } ] }, { "message_id": "<5448FB97019992FF@rgout05.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk>", "from": { "name": "Mo Holkar", "address": "mo at holkar.net" }, "date": "2014-11-04T10:17:31+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Wolfewiki default questions", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Nice :-)\n\nMo" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "At 09:29 04/11/2014, Matthew wrote:\nI think you should add:\n\nI want to know if it's meant anything. If what I suffered -- if \nit's been worth it.\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }