Eyeflash Miracles: WolfeWiki Content

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 21 Jul 2007, 02:37 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:37:22 -0700
Subject: (urth) Eyeflash Miracles: WolfeWiki Content
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Assuming that William agreed, I'd be delighted to put it into some kind of
usable form.

Does anyone have a current eddress for him?

On 7/20/07, Matthew Groves <matthewalangroves at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a set of essays in the old archives about Wizard of Oz
> references in "The Eyeflash Miracles."  The essays are by William
> Ansley, and they are very thorough on the Oz connections as well as
> being a guide to interpretation.  Here are the relevant posts:
>
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0046.shtml
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0050.shtml
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0052.shtml
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0054.shtml
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0057.shtml
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0059.shtml
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0024/0072.shtml
>
> This is just the sort of thing I would like to see in the WolfeWiki.
> A lot of work went into these essays, and others like them.  I wonder,
> first of all, what the WolfeWiki custodians think about the
> possibility of (upon obtaining Mr. Ansley's permission) editing these
> posts for inclusion on the Wiki.  Second, I wonder about the
> feasibility of mining the archives for other gems like these and using
> them for the Wiki as well.  The alternative is to create all such
> content from scratch, which, besides being an unnecessary duplication
> of effort, is a task that boggles my mind, considering Wolfe's
> complexity and the breadth of his intertextuality.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Matthew
>
> PS: Bill is a Vironese name.  Just occurred to me.  So is Slippery Dick.
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