# Q&D *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 24 Mar 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 *24 Mar 1997, 17:13* Reply: Item #9056575 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Speaking of deadlines . . . This is a little advertisement to announce that I've come up with a booklet titled "The Quick & Dirty Guide to the Long Sun Whorl" (hereafter "Q&D"). I printed only fifty of them, and twenty are gone already. There will be no second printing--the next stage will be something else entirely. (This nebulous "next stage" has no schedule, but judging by my other chapbooks it will probably take a year or more to materialize.) "Q&D" is =not= a finished product. But for those who wish they could have helped shape LEXICON URTHUS, this is the opportunity to contribute to the formation of a potential new book, tentatively titled GATE OF HORN, BOOK OF SILK. (And yes, people are already sending me valuable comments and corrections for "Q&D.") So if you have been re-reading THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN with enthusiasm and you think you'd like to contribute brainpower to a new Wolfe reference work, then you will want "Q&D." For those who possess or have seen the "Additions, Errata, &cetera" chapbooks, "Q&D" is three times the size and has smaller type--all told, around 16,000 words. Special entries on Calendar, Cities, Families, Marriages, Men and Women, Musical Instruments, Musical Tunes, Numerology, Paintings, Peach-colored, Possessions, Power Groups, Relativistic Travel, Severian & Silk, Silk's Enlightenment, Spectrums, Theophanies, and a very developed Timeline. As usual for a micropress such as my own, I've already spent the sweat and money (no blood or tears this time ) to make these booklets. So I'm selling them basically at cost plus postage, for $5. To order yours, send me an e-mail note to reserve a copy. After I confirm your reservation please send me a check (made out to "Sirius Fiction"). I have no idea how quickly these will sell out, but since there are only thirty copies left they should go pretty fast. (If you missed out on "Additions, Errata, &cetera" volume 1 or volume 2, they are available for $1 [plus $1 p/h]. Or Special Package Deal: all three chapbooks for $8 total.) GATE OF HORN, BOOK OF SILK might never materialize. In one sense, "Q&D" is a trial balloon. In another sense, it is the reverse form of the LEXICON URTHUS process--in that case, I did all the work and published the book, then amended (and continue to amend) through chapbooks; in this case, stepwise refinement through "Q&D" and its sequels will, in the best case scenario, result in a finished work. Michael Andre-Driussi P.O. Box 6248 Albany CA 94706 USA e-mail: M.Driussi at genie.com Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com --- ### Jim Jordan *24 Mar 1997, 13:44 · follows m.driussi* Me want all three. I'll send you $8.00 when you confirm. James B. Jordan 318 - 17th St. Niceville, FL 32578 I have a photocopier, and if you get too many orders and need some copies run off in that form, I'll be glad to help. Nutria Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---