Severian

Alex David Groce · 15 Oct 1998, 12:06 · from urth-v0020.mbox · original

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From: "Alex David Groce" <adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Severian
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:06:27
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I notice NC State has a copy.  I think I'll stop by the library and see how
long it would take to transcribe Severian.

On Oct 15, 11:25am, Alice Turner wrote:
> Subject: (urth) Severian
> I went to the Catholic Encyclopedia- http://www.knight.org/advent/ - to s=
ee
> more about Severian, but the article has not yet been transcribed.
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> Bear with me a moment while I rhapsodize about the 1913 Catholic
> Encyclopedia, now, lucky for us, in public domain, and in the process of
> being transcribed in its enormous entirety onto the web. Compared to this
> treasure of 19th century scholarship, the New Catholic
> Encyclopedia--feh!--is a pallid thing, shorn of weirdness and wonders, and
> ever so politically correct.
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> The transcription is done entirely by volunteers. If any of you has access
> to a university library with the CE (the site helpfully lists locations f=
or
> you) and a scanner, you will build up merit in the next life by helping t=
hem
> out. Not only that, they will list your name at the end of each article
> (they have a list of these waiting too). You can be immortal as the one to
> transcribe Severian!
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> -alga
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> *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/
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>-- End of excerpt from Alice Turner



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"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32
--
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Senior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)
'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President
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