spot check Invisible Library

Jerry Friedman · 26 Oct 2001, 12:27 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) spot check Invisible Library
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:27:28
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--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote:
> >Okay, at the risk of cluttering up the list with material that's
> already
> >been posted, here's what I've got.  Any other names for Blaine, the
> forger
> >of _The Lusty Lawyer_, and Kinglake, the author of _The Death of Love_?
>=20
> Oops.  Blaine is not the forger, Louis Gold is the forger of THE LUSTY
> LAWYER by "Amanda Ros": so should the pseudo-author be '"Amanda Ros"
> (Louis
> Gold)'?

I must have misunderstood an earlier post.

> >Is that really an apostrophe in Tcove', or an accent?
>=20
> It is an accent over the e.  In addition, there is a chevron (or
> whatchamacallit) over the o.

Circumflex.  Here I thought you were French!  (Or a probably bilingual
child of French immigrants, or something.)

But then you probably thought I'd read _Peace_.

> >  And is there
> >anything relevant in "Parkroads: a Review"?
>=20
> Well, if the Invisible Library has a film section, then "Parkroads"
> should be in it. <g>

Got it.

> [snip]
>=20
> >Author: Gene Wolfe
> >Title: Peace
> >Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold
> >Pseudo-Title: THE BOOK THAT BINDS THE DEAD (or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF
> >THE DEAD, or THE BOOK OF THE NAMES OF DEATH or THE NECRONOMICON)
> >Comments: A spurious Lovecraftian NECRONOMICON by a character in PEACE
>=20
> Pseudo-Author: "Unknown" (Louis Gold)

The author of the "real" _Necronomicon_ in Lovecraft is named Abdul
Alhazred, so I think this one would be clearest as "Pseudo-Author: Louis
Gold, writing as Abdul Alhazred".  Unless the Lovecraft _Necronomicon_ in
_Peace_ is described as anonymous.

I'll insert another two commas into the list of pseudo-titles above.
=20
> >Title: Peace
> >Pseudo-Author: Blaine?
> >Psuedo-Title: The Lusty Lawyer
> >Comments: Another forgery, this time of a book announced but never
> >published by the real-life author Amanda Ros (fl. c. 1900), notorious
> for
> >her painfully purple prose
>=20
> Pseudo-Author: "Amanda Ros" (Louis Gold)

Again the pseudo-author has a pseudonym.  Your version makes sense, but I
think it's clearer as "Pseudo-Author: Louis Gold, writing as Amanda Ros"

Has anyone suggested that either of these books might be _The Book of
Gold_?
 ...

I'll include all your other corrections and clarifications.

Oh--any hints on where in TBotSS I should look for the history by the guy
from Chicago?  I have only a vague memory of that.

--=20
Jerry Friedman

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