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Norwood, Frederick Hudson03 Nov 2014, 15:46as archived
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Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe I’ve read, “The Tree is My Hat”. I found these questions: * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z? * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me? * Who dunnit? * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001? Does anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions? Rick
Mo Holkar03 Nov 2014, 16:12as archived
Hi Rick, Those are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template that's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's that's not yet been covered, as examples of the sorts of things that might be asked. The idea is that they should be replaced by relevant questions about the work under examination: but often the page gets added before such questions have been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for quite a while. Anyone coming across the page is encouraged to add questions, or answers, themselves, based on their familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can edit the wiki pages, once they've created an account.) I think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up with those particular dummy questions and immortalized them in the template although it was a long time ago now! best wishes, Mo
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At 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote: Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe I???ve read, ???The Tree is My Hat???. I found these questions: * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z? * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me? * Who dunnit? * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001? Does anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions? Rick _______________________________________________
Mo Holkar03 Nov 2014
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Hi Rick, Those are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template that's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's that's not yet been covered, as examples of the sorts of things that might be asked. The idea is that they should be replaced by relevant questions about the work under examination: but often the page gets added before such questions have been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for quite a while. Anyone coming across the page is encouraged to add questions, or answers, themselves, based on their familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can edit the wiki pages, once they've created an account.) I think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up with those particular dummy questions and immortalized them in the template? although it was a long time ago now! best wishes, Mo # ~ # ~ # WolfeWiki -- a wiki about Gene Wolfe http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes03 Nov 2014, 17:25as archived
For what it's worth, the first three questions are the lyrics to a particularly bad Genesis song...
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mo Holkar <mo at holkar.net> wrote: Hi Rick, Those are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template that's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's that's not yet been covered, as examples of the sorts of things that might be asked. The idea is that they should be replaced by relevant questions about the work under examination: but often the page gets added before such questions have been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for quite a while. Anyone coming across the page is encouraged to add questions, or answers, themselves, based on their familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can edit the wiki pages, once they've created an account.) I think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up with those particular dummy questions and immortalized them in the template? although it was a long time ago now! best wishes, Mo At 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote:
Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe I???ve read, ???The Tree is My Hat? . I found these questions: * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z? * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me? * Who dunnit? * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001? Does anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions? Rick _______________________________________________
Mo Holkar03 Nov 2014, 18:11as archived
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gah! -- I wish I still didn't know that. Need some eschatology in there too :-) Mo
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At 17:25 03/11/2014, you wrote: For what it's worth, the first three questions are the lyrics to a particularly bad Genesis song... On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mo Holkar <<mailto:mo at holkar.net>mo at holkar.net> wrote: Hi Rick, Those are 'dummy' questions that are set up in the 'new page' template that's used whenever a page is added to the wiki about a work of Wolfe's that's not yet been covered, as examples of the sorts of things that might be asked. The idea is that they should be replaced by relevant questions about the work under examination: but often the page gets added before such questions have been raised, and the dummm questions sometimes remain for quite a while. Anyone coming across the page is encouraged to add questions, or answers, themselves, based on their familiarity with the work. (Any visitor can edit the wiki pages, once they've created an account.) I think it was Dan'l Danehy-Oakes who came up with those particular dummy questions and immortalized them in the template although it wass a long time ago now! best wishes, Mo At 15:46 03/11/2014, Rick wrote: Marc Aramini kindly sent me a link to the wolfewiki. I looked up the most recent Wolfe I????ve read, ????Th????The Tree is My Hat??? . I found these questions: ? ? * Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z? ? ? * Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me? ? ? * Who dunnit? ? ? * Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001? Does anybody know the answers? Does anybody understand the questions? Rick _______________________________________________
Jeffery Wilson clueland.com04 Nov 2014, 09:16as archived
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On 11/3/2014 12:11 PM, Mo Holkar wrote: gah! -- I wish I still didn't know that. Need some eschatology in there too :-)
I think the fourth question covers that, actually.
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com > A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab < http://www.tamut.edu/cil >
Matthew King04 Nov 2014, 09:29as archived
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Wolfewiki default questions
I think you should add: I want to know if it's meant anything. If what I suffered -- if it's been worth it.
Mo Holkar04 Nov 2014, 10:17as archived
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Wolfewiki default questions
Nice :-) Mo
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At 09:29 04/11/2014, Matthew wrote: I think you should add: I want to know if it's meant anything. If what I suffered -- if it's been worth it. _______________________________________________

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