The Invisible Library

Adam Stephanides · 14 Jun 2001, 15:42 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) The Invisible Library
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:42:26
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on 6/13/01 10:11 PM, William Ansley at wansley at warwick.net wrote:

> Was there ever a actually a book entitled _The Book of Gold_ in one
> of Wolfe's works? I though it was just a name for whatever book a
> reader found at an early age that became, for him or her, the
> "perfect" book.

In SHADOW OF THE TORTURER (chap. VI), Master Ultan speaks of _The Book of
Gold_ as the book which, when a child discovers it, leads to his becoming a
librarian.  It may be, though, that this in fact doesn't refer to a specific
book, though Ultan doesn't say so explicitly.  I could make an argument both
ways.

--Adam


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