How list works and questions to mailers

Martinus Scriblerus · 11 May 2008, 10:53 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: martinus.scriblerus at gmail.com (Martinus Scriblerus)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 11:53:15 +0100
Subject: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Keeley
<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to be very much a sci-fi / fantasy reader, but for the past few years
> I've been diversifying a lot. So this year I've been reading lots of
> "mainstream" lit, a good deal of Patrick O'Brian, and a lot of mysteries.
> Wolfe is one of the few sci-fi authors I still read with any deal of
> regularity.

I know of several other Patrick O'Brian enthusiasts who also read Gene
Wolfe. Both writers of rich and thought-provoking prose. How do you
find the description of Boston in "The Fortune of War"?


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Martinus Scriblerus scripsit ex 50? 21' N, 4?41' W

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