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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 03 Nov 2014, 17:25 · from 2014-November.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:25:16 -0800
Subject: (urth) wolfewiki
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For what it's worth, the first three questions are the lyrics to a
particularly bad Genesis song...

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mo Holkar <mo at holkar.net> wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> Those are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template
> that's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's
> that's not yet been covered, as examples of the sorts of things that might
> be asked. The idea is that they should be replaced by relevant questions
> about the work under examination: but often the page gets added before such
> questions have been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for
> quite a while.
>
> Anyone coming across the page is encouraged to add questions, or answers,
> themselves, based on their familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can edit
> the wiki pages, once they've created an account.)
>
> I think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up with those particular dummy
> questions and immortalized them in the template? although it was a long
> time ago now!
>
> best wishes,
>
> Mo
>
>
>
> At 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote:
>
>> Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki.  I looked up the
>> most recent Wolfe I???ve read, ???The Tree is My Hat?? .  I found these
>> questions:
>>
>>    * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?
>>    * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?
>>    * Who dunnit?
>>    * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?
>> Does anybody know the answers?  Does anybody understand the questions?
>>
>> Rick
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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