Got a spare grand-and-half?

Son of Witz · 03 Dec 2008, 01:18 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:18:38 +0000
Subject: (urth) Got a spare grand-and-half?
Message-ID: <W6699619717123941228267118@webmail12>

>> Did Preuss understand what he read?  Seems to have missed the boat in a lot of ways.  Obviously he's done a lot of hard work and some of this stuff looks great.  But I have lots of issues with these not conforming to the text very closely.  I have so many complaints here I should just not get started, I suppose.

>I suppose we oughtn't to blame Preuss:
>
>"Everey item that was visualized was good researched by me and from
>some hardcore Gene Wolfe fans i met on the internet."

We have met the enemy and he is us.

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