Invisible Library

Hubert · 18 Oct 2001, 08:35 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: "Hubert" <hubert at ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Invisible Library
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:35:56 +0100
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And remember it 'leans against a folio in green cloth'

Title: The book of the New Sun
Pseudo-Author: Blaithmaic (or is that just part of the title?)
Pseudo-Title: Lives of the Seventeen Megatherians
Comments: it's a folio in green cloth

n.b. isn't it strange that Wolfe likes using the number Seventeen so often?

And for the Wonders of Urth and Sky's comments you could put what it says on
in the subtitle, "a Collection from Printed Sources of Universal Secrets of
Such Age That Their Meaning Has Become Obscured of Time".

-rusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
To: <urth at lists1.ba.best.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: (urth) Invisible Library


> Hi, everyone!  I've been on the Whorl List for a while, but I subscribed
> to this one to see what I've been missing and to mention the Invisible
> Library site <http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/ILCatalogf.htm>, a catalog
> of fictitious books.  I think a lot of readers of this list will enjoy
> browsing the catalog.  But although there's a lot of sf, there's nothing
> between Wodehouse and Woolf!  So what books exist only in Wolfe's fiction?
>
> I'll start, in the Library's format:
>
> Title: The Book of the New Sun
> Pseudo-Author: unknown
> Pseudo-Title: The Wonders of Urth and Sky
> Comments: A compilation of ancient stories
>
> Title: The Book of the Long Sun, The Book of the Short Sun
> Pseudo-Author: unknown (or is somebody mentioned?)
> Pseudo-Title: The Chrasmological Writings
> Comments: The scriptures of a religion
>
> There must be more than this.  The librarian,Brian Quinette, asks for
> suggestions, so when this thread winds up I'll e-mail him at
> <bartleby at invisiblelibrary.com>.
>
> --
> Jerry Friedman
>
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