Nicknames?

ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus · 11 Dec 2002, 04:15 · from urth-v0212.mbox · original

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From: "ArchD'Ikon Zibethicus" <zibethicus at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Nicknames?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:15:32 +0000
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>First, welcome.

Thank you.

>Your existing name is perfect, actually. _Ondatra zibethicus_ or the =20
>Common Muskrat - you fit right > in with Nutria and alga.

That's the one!  In honour of Deacon Mushrat from `Pogo'...

>If you want to subscribe to a digest version of the mailing list, <snip>=20
>This should be the same info you get via email when you join the list.

Yes, thanks; I have now (hopefully) attended to this.  I either didn't get=20
or didn't notice the E-mail in question when I posted the preceeding=20
message.  I will try to poke around in the archives, time permitting.

>I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say. You can't be any=20
>crazier than the last few people who have joined the discussion.

Many would disagree!  (However, I suppose that's my cue for a tedious brief=20
introduction...)  I can tell a hawk from a handsaw well enough when the win=
d=20
is in some quadrants, but only on some days...  I am an ageing, irritable=20
recluse in increasingly poor health, living in poverty with my young family=20
in the Blue Mountains of Australia (which very nearly got burned a couple o=
f=20
days ago in bushfires).  I was introducted to `Shadow' in the mid-1980s by =
a=20
friend who mistook me for an intellectual, and I immediately realised that =
I=20
had encountered a uniquely significant fantasy author.  I read `Shadow', I=20
believe, in a single weekend session, and then immediately sought out the=20
rest of the series.  The rest, as they say is history.  What more is there=20
to say?

Oh, yes - I have kept in touch with the development of the Long Sun and=20
Short Sun series, of course, as well as gathered everything else I can find=
.=20
  I hope that they _never_ attempt to film the Book of the New Sun, but I=20
can see in my mind's eye a deluxe anniversary hardback edition sumptuously=20
and strikingly illustrated by Barry Moser's beautiful woodcuts...

Other authors whom I particularly enjoy include (off the top of my head)=20
Ambrose Bierce, James Branch Cabell, J. G. Ballard, Louis-Ferdinand Celine,=20
Amit Chaudhuri, R. A. Lafferty, Alasdair Gray and Jonathan Carroll.

Look forward to talking,

->Zx<-

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