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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) archives
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:25:58 -0700
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This is just an observation, and it really doesn't mean anything.  I just=20
noticed that when Andy Robertson replies to a post, it uses the original=20
senders ID on the archives (at least, it does that with mine) (in effect, i=
t=20
looks like I posted almost twice as much as I really did in the last archiv=
e).
 I really don't mind this at all, but it's kind of odd, and could be confus=
ing=20
in trying to figure out who said what. (In a personal interaction with anot=
her=20
poster, one of Andy's statements was mistakenly attributed to me, and this=20
might explain why ... I hadn't noticed before). Oh well, we'll just conside=
r=20
this a cozy intellectual community. You don't mind sharing your identity, d=
o=20
you Andy? :) We could be like Silkhorn. "Did Silk or Horn say that?"
I don't know if it does that with everyone who responds or just Andy, but I=20
was wondering if there was some cause.

Also, does anybody know if any prominent critic (besides Clute and Dirda, o=
f=20
course) like Harold Bloom has ever read Gene Wolfe?  If Bloom praises Crowl=
ey=20
and David Lindsay so highly, I can only imagine he would not dismiss Wolfe =
out=20
of hand if he read his work (as he dismisses, say, Dorris Lessing).  Alga,=20
didn't you have some vague connection with Bloom at one time? (sorry if I=20
misremembered that).  Foist Wolfe on him.
Marc Aramini

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