I recant. but I wasn't REALLY wrong

maa32 · 16 Dec 2002, 23:47 · from urth-v0212.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) I recant. but I wasn't REALLY wrong
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:47:10 -0700
Message-ID: <urth-v0212-2432 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0212/2432.txt.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Mr. Wolfe has weighed in.  I don't know if I can even post about short sun=20
anymore.
I know the truth now :(

Gene Wolfe is far trickier than any of us could ever possibly imagine.  Eve=
r. =20
No one was right - all your reasons for Urth not being Blue AREN'T valid on=
es.
 There IS one valid reason it probably isn't Blue.  I don't know what to do.

In regards to Urth in the old New Sun book, there ARE sentient trees on it!=
 =20
:)  Maybe even cannibal trees. That's all I'm going to say.  Good fishing. =20
Holy crap.  How could one man be so damned brilliant?!!! Merry Christmas, M=
arc=20
Aramini.  Be careful what you ask for - you might get it. :(
Just remember that I wasn't really, really wrong.  Just kind of.  But not=20
really.  I don't know what to tell you.  If anyone else comes up with the=20
"solution" of the text independently, I will start posting again about Shor=
t=20
Sun.
Marc Aramini

--=20

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net