# Ships of Hell *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Jul 1997* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *11 Jul 1997, 00:05* Reply: Item #2461657 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# FWIW, "All the Hues of Hell" (1987) reminds me a great deal of three other Wolfe starship tales: "Alien Stones" (1972), "Silhouette" (1975), and "The Other Dead Man" (1988). Numerolody and "23011." This is a real subjective quagmire, naturally. First breaking point is where you want to break the string. FWIW (and that ain't much in this particular case), using the Platonic system and considering the string as "2," "30," and "11," we get BETA-LAMBDA-GE. If "200," "30," and "11," then SIGMA-LAMBDA-GE. Which means nothing to me. Getting even more wild and wooly, "23" is "the glyph of (nascent) life"; "0" is "the Great Mother, the Void, That which lies beyond the Alpha and Omega"; and "11" is "the number of Justice and Balance," all according to E.E. Rehmus's THE MAGICIAN'S DICTIONARY. (Quixotically enough, that =does= seem to have some bearing.) =mantis= P.S. John Bishop, I'm interested: please expand upon PANDORA BY HOLLY HOLLANDER as related to CATCHER IN THE RYE. =m= ---