Napoleon Bonaparte meets the Venus de Milo

Dan Rabin · 30 Apr 1998, 22:30 · from urth-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Dan Rabin <danrabin at a.crl.com>
Subject: (urth) Napoleon Bonaparte meets the Venus de Milo
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:30:10
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

[_Peace_] Williams Ansley wants to know what's behind Weer's allusion to
the reason that Napoleon is pictured with his hand thrust into his jacket.

And *I* want to know what's behind Louis Gold's assertions about the Venus
de Milo: that the form of the arms is known, that they were found with the
statue, and that it's almost certainly a modern forgery.

If Wolfe isn't making this up, it's a very interesting hypothesis.

If he *is* making it up, then he's got a bit of Louis Gold in him.

But we knew that.

  -- Dan Rabin

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