Wolfe hunting — Urth Net

maru dubshinki17 Apr 2006, 00:20as archived

Wolfe hunting

Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--anabiosis Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/anabiosis.html Goldfish are routinely frozen in blocks of ice for shipment. A few die, but most survive. This has been a common practice for many years." Is this the Wolfe, or is there another with an equal interest in occult words? ~maru pondering forbidden knowledge.

Matt DeLuca17 Apr 2006, 03:01as archived

↳ in reply to maru dubshinki

coincidence i bet

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On 4/16/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote: Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--anabiosis Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/anabiosis.html Goldfish are routinely frozen in blocks of ice for shipment. A few die, but most survive. This has been a common practice for many years." Is this the Wolfe, or is there another with an equal interest in occult words? ~maru pondering forbidden knowledge. _______________________________________________

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes17 Apr 2006, 05:18as archived

↳ in reply to Matt DeLuca

Rather than coincidence, I suspect a Wolfe fan who took that address because s/he is a Wolfe fan, and shares his interest in rare and unusual words.

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On 4/16/06, Matt DeLuca <straylightrise at gmail.com> wrote: coincidence i bet On 4/16/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:

Like I'm sure many of you do, I subscribe to A Word A Day; in one of the most recent compendiums, I spotted this: "From: Gene Wolfe (genewlfATaol.com) Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--anabiosis Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/anabiosis.html Goldfish are routinely frozen in blocks of ice for shipment. A few die, but most survive. This has been a common practice for many years." Is this the Wolfe, or is there another with an equal interest in occult words? ~maru pondering forbidden knowledge. _______________________________________________