PEACE: Morryster's _Marvells of Science_

Michael Andre-Driussi · 07 May 2002, 22:56 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: Morryster's _Marvells of Science_
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 15:56:29 -0700
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Jerry Friedman wrote:
>How certain is it that the _Marvells of Science_ in _Peace_, which
>I'll get around to someday, is another of Gold's forgeries?

Well hmmm.  It seems as certain as his forgery of THE NECRONOMICON and his
forgery of Kate's diary.  As Adam Stephanides noted before, it is a big
pointer to the nature of Gold's bookstore as a place of books so rare as to
be impossible: the rising music which crescendos a few pages later around
the more famous and unspoken NECRONOMICON.

(Still hunting for another source to that wonderful "Venus di Milo" story!
So haunting, since I all-but-swore that I'd seen it before, somewhere, just
before reading PEACE . . . )

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