OT: Anathem

Fred Kiesche · 21 Sep 2008, 00:40 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: recursive_loop at yahoo.com (Fred Kiesche)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) OT: Anathem
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One (ex) D&D kid here. Can't recall having any problems any different from others my age. And I have a feeling that D&D kids are much more in tune with stuff in Wolfe's writings than say...shop kids or football kids or slacker kids or...

F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) OT: Anathem
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 1:53 PM

2008/9/20 Rjyan Kadwallader <cexwell at gmail.com>

I think I would let Gary slide, it's not cool to pick on D&D kids they have enough problems as it is.

And didn't he die a few months back??
As I understand (from reading Michael Moorcock's comments on this), early D&D was very upfront about the sources it used - apparently they used to cite Tolkien, Moorcock, Leiber, Vance, et al. in the guidebooks. Now - not so much.

I never played myself, but surely there are some "D&D kids" here? My parents were always suspicious of it, so it wasn't really an option for me. I got my watered-down fantasy through Japanese videogames, thank you very much.

-Matt
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