i'm glad i'm alive
gent...@xmission.com
John Vinson <74222...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
}kitten writes:
}
}>>kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years,
}>>to be exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
}
}>>23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
}
}"So am I... So are a lot of us!" replies John the Wysard, with
}a dark memory of his own...
}
}<<CRASH>>
}
}followed by a big
}
}<<HUG>>
"Getting his reply before I get your post, I can only echo his sentiments."
<<CRASH>>
UT
barbara trumpinski
exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
--
kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
/\ /\ smotu "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"
{=.=} '...the conspiracy of the living is to help one
~ another carry on.' rita mae brown
John Vinson
>>kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years,
>>to be exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
>>23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
"So am I... So are a lot of us!" replies John the Wysard, with
John K. Stevens
-> kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years, to be
-> exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
-> 23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
Jake Starfire takes his mug of coffee to the chalk-line.
"So am I, Kitten. Heres to one of the liveliest Kittens on the
net!"
<<<<<<<<<CRASH>>>>><<<<<<<
-> --
-> kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
-> /\ /\ smotu "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"
-> {=.=} '...the conspiracy of the living is to help one
-> ~ another carry on.' rita mae brown
Sheeyun Park
>kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years, to be
>exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
>
<<CRASH!!!>>
Kitten:
>23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
>
"Kitten, as other people have written, I'm sure glad you're still with
us. This world would have been a little colder without your warm
caring. Happy Birthday, and may you have many more surrounded by love
and peace."
Shpark hugs kitten. Then makes room for others.
shpark
Laura J Valentine
> kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years, to be
> exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
>
> 23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
>
"I'm glad you're alive too..."
*crash*
--Random
"Twinkle's a nice word. So's viridian." --Delirium
RCM...@delphi.com
Quoting kittent from a message in alt.callahans
> kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years, to be
> exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
> 23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
"I'm glad you're still with us, kitten!" Harper gives kitten a quick
hug before continuing on to the fireplace.
>>>>>>SMASH<<<<<<
> --
> kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
> /\ /\ smotu "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"
> {=.=} '...the conspiracy of the living is to help one
> ~ another carry on.' rita mae brown
Harper rcm...@delphi.com
"Mostly Harmless" -- Douglas Adams
Rainbow V 1.11 for Delphi - Registered
Don Degnan
>exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
>23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
I'm glad to see you here, Kitten...
<<HUG>>
followed by an empty Guiness ----
***CRASH***
Mary Ann Dimand
Twinkles pulls in a cart loaded with Comfy Chairs and Sofas, unhitches
herslef and begins unloading them in a new lobe of the Place which seems
to have suddenly appeared. It is lined with bookshelves.
She begins browsing the shelves, sees _Anna Karenina_, and realizes that
shpark has already been here....
She places a few more books on the shelves: _Fire and Hemlock_, _Thus Was
Adonis Murdered_, _The Home: Its Work and Influence_, ....
and waits to see what other patrons shelve.
John Vinson
gleeful at Twinkle's thoughtful addition to the Place. "Let's
see... the complete _Narnia_ series of course..., _Earth_ by
Dave Brin, _Principles of Relational Database Design_, my five
_Mafalda_ collections... that'll do for starters! Thank you,
Twinkles!"
Mike Smith
: Twinkles pulls in a cart loaded with Comfy Chairs and Sofas, unhitches
: herslef and begins unloading them in a new lobe of the Place which seems
: to have suddenly appeared. It is lined with bookshelves.
DMike wanders over to this new section of the Place and grins. Seeing
there are way too few books here, he adds Dicken's _Nicholas Nickleby_, and
_David Copperfield_, the complete Shakespere, and Heinlein's _The Moon is
a Harsh Mistress_. Grabbing hold of _N. Nickleby_ he curls up on one of
the comfy chairs and begins reading.
Claudia Marie
Claudia pops into the cozy nook. She would add a complete Shakespeare,
but finds one already shelved. She adds the Anne of Green Gables series,
the Dark is Rising sequence, all Mercedes Lackey's sole authorships,
Orson Scott Card's Ender trilogy, and... decides to leave some space
for the other Patrons. *grin*
As an afterthought, she adds a four-book A.A.Milne set... Pooh and poems.
Claudia
--
"I don't know why I can't think of anything I would rather do
Than be wasting my time on mountains with you." -- Chess
Rowan Fairgrove
trumpinski) writes:
> kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years, to be
> exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
>
The Gypsy looks over at kitten from her place by the teatable.
She nods at this sentiment.
> 23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
>
As the toast comes to its conclusion, she sends a tea cup
winging its way to the fireplace. "I'm certainly glad you didn't
too, my friend. May you live long and happily."
Gypsy
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John Vinson
>and poems.
>Claudia
John the Wysard gleefully grabs "House at Pooh Corner" and then
vanishes into the depths of an overstuffed chair....
Joseph Knecht
: >As an afterthought, she adds a four-book A.A.Milne set... Pooh
: >and poems.
: >Claudia
hm. dave thinks for a while. he adds a few titles to the shelf.
_Stranger in a Strange Land_
_The Collected Works of Shakespeare_
_Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_
_Hagakure_
_In Search of the Warrior Spirit_
_Jonathon Livingston Seagull_
_Watchmen_
_Principia Discordia_
and a motley collectio of Phil Foglio art. 8)
RubyTwo
RubyTwo brings in Orson Scott Card's _Hatrack River_ trilogy, Patricia
McKillip's _Riddlemaster of Hed_ trilogy, and then, because she doesn't
really like fantasy except for the exceptions, adds her Niven and Steven
King collections.
Then she picks up DMike's copy of _Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ and
curls up in the sofa corner. With a medium-long-haired tortoiseshell
cat in her lap. And a bag of salt-and-vinegar chips. And a Faygo
RedPop. And lets out a sigh of *blissful* content...
Kit Padpaw
Kit reaches into a puoch on his belt and pulls out three books, all
recently read, and good enough to suggest to other patrons.
He reaches up to the second shelf off the floor, and places, one at a
time, _Foucalt's Pendulum_, _the Sound and the Fury_, and his
half-finished copy of _Absalom! Absalom!_, where he can get it if he
wants to finish it. "Culture lives in SoCal" he mutters..."At least in
our reading group."
Kit
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Geoffrey Broadwell
-'f, appalled at the western bent of the books shelved so far (actually, all
the ones that I have read of the previously shelved are *excellent*), decides
to add a little of eastern thought to the shelves:
"Lessee here, we need a copy of the I Ching, the Tao te Ching, the Art of War,
the Book of Five Rings, Zen Speaks, Zen and the Art of Archery, and . . ."
-'f continues muttering and rapidly shelving for a moment. Then he pauses
during mid-shelving of a Sutra, and decides to save space on his shelf for a
little bit of computer science and western reading.
"Hmmm . . . well, we need a copy of the classic Zen of Assembly Language,
the complete Art of Computer Programming, Programming Pearls, Applied
Cryptography, . . ."
Once again, he has to stop himself.
"And of course, we need some Rudyard Kipling, everything by Geoffrey Chaucer,
some Ursula K. LeGuin, and . . . oh my god, I almost forgot PHYSICS! Sigh.
OK, we need Feynman's Lectures, Einstein: Philosopher/Scientist (eat your
heart out, Bill), Newton's Principia, and damn near everything by Da Vinci."
Hmmm, what are we missing . . . Oh!
"How could I forget SF?!? All right, I'll be good, and since I've already
seen at least one RAH volume, and it just isn't fair to try to put damn
near any Isaac Asimov book on it's own, I think I'll suggest . . . um . . .
how about this one?"
And he shelves a book without naming it, just to see how many people
recognize . . . "Think of it as evolution in action."
-'f
gent...@xmission.com
He reaches into an X-window, and brings out _Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle
Maintenance_ and a very hard to find hardcover of _Flowers For Algernon_.
UT
"I may be gibbering, but I don't feel I am wrong"
--Mike Falkner
Brad Johnson
crates piled outside the door. "I've brought my SF collection from home;
I know it will be treated well in the Place. We've got Adams, Anthony,
Asimov, Aspirin, Benford, Bova, Bradbury, Bradley, Brin, Brooks, Bujold, Card,
Chalker, Clarke, Cook, Dickson, Donaldson, Drake, Duncan, Eddings, Eisenstein,
Ende, Farmer, Forward, Foster, Gear, Goldman, Hambley, Harrison, Hardy,
Heinlein, Jordan, LeGuin, Laumer, Lawhead, Lem, L'Engle, Lewis, Lieber,
McCaffrey, McKillip, Modesitt, Moon, Norton, Pohl, Robinson, Saberhagen,
Silverberg, Simmons, Stasheff, Stephenson, Tolkien, Vinge, Vogt, Watt-Evans,
Williams, Zelazny, and Zindell, to name a few. Some collections of the
authors' wworks are more complete than others, and there's a definite
emphasis on fantasy, but it's a pretty good start. Not quite MITSFS, of
course, but what is?"
He looks around for people to help unload the increasing pile of boxes.
Diane Duane
Mmm. THE DAUGHTER OF TIME, by Josephine Tey (the most subversive
book I know). BERNARD CHAPMAN'S NEW COMPLETE BOOK OF BREAD. EIRIKS
SAGA, the E.R. Eddison translation. A HISTORY OF THE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, Winston Churchill, 5 vols. BAEDEKER'S
GUIDE TO LONDON, 1912 edition. A BIT OF FRY AND LAURIE
(compilation of skits). The RAETOROMANISCH CHRESTHOMATHIE, 12
vols. THE GUNS OF AUGUST, Barbara Tuchman. D.
Diane Duane
part of the Owl Springs Partnership, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Visit our WWW page: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/index.html
Now self-publishing the fantasy novel A WIND FROM THE SOUTH
James W Walden
patrons by Mary Ann Dimand@minerva.
> herslef and begins unloading them in a new lobe of the Place which seems
> to have suddenly appeared. It is lined with bookshelves.
Actually, it's not new at all. This thread seems to come up fairly often.
James
"Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm
ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are
forever." - The Laws of Physics
Sanford E. Walke IV
: Kitten:
: >kitten stands up...suddenly looking a lot younger...23 years, to be
: >exact. her toast: "i'm glad i'm alive. <crash>
: >
: <<CRASH!!!>>
: Kitten:
: >23 years ago tonight...i almost died. i'm glad i didn't."
: >
: "Kitten, as other people have written, I'm sure glad you're still with
: us. This world would have been a little colder without your warm
: caring. Happy Birthday, and may you have many more surrounded by love
: and peace."
I hardly know you, it seems, but if I didn't have a paintball practice on
the 18th, I'd be down there in a second for your RS. I'm glad you're not
dead.
-----
Sandy
se...@izzy.net
"Cuius testiculos habes, habes cordia et cerebellum."
I don't speak for anyone but me, and sometimes not even that.
David Toms
>
>
>Twinkles pulls in a cart loaded with Comfy Chairs and Sofas, unhitches
>herslef and begins unloading them in a new lobe of the Place which seems
>to have suddenly appeared. It is lined with bookshelves.
>
SlipNaught, though late to helping with the library, notices that *no* one has yet brought in a copy of _Snow Crash_, so gladly donates his....
Thomas Baker
Joseph Knecht writes:
:
The six-and-a-half foot tiger notices the new nook with interest. He
gets up and walks over rather stodgily, and when he gets there, pulls a
single volume from his bag -- The Old Oxford English Dictionary. This one
only weighs 75 pounds.
"Every library should have one," Tom thinks, standing straighter now.
Next to Churchill's "History of the English Speaking Peoples", he adds
two other points of view: H.G.Well's "An Outline of History" and Toynbee's
"A Study of History".
His dimly remembered copy of Burn's "On Demonology and Witchcraft" from
1868, cracked and supposedly haunted.
"Olde Mr. Boston Bar Guide" - in case Mike and Tom ever take a vacation.
Newman's "World of Mathematics" and some Ambrose Bierce.
"Tom Sawyer Abroad" by Mark Twain.
A first edition of "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, in which the
timezones don't make sense, and in which Speaker-to-Animals is
introduced (later to assume Tom's namesake, "Chmeee".)
Heinlein's "Expanded Universe" takes its place near the other
RAHs.
And two necessities - Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here" (it
nearly did, thinks Tom), (with Len Deighton's "SS-GB" and Philip
K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle"), ... and the Poems of Edgar
Allen Poe (Tom takes a quick peek at "The Bells" and "Lenore").
He thankfully keeps his original, serialized _Watchmen_ in
custody at home, with his "Motorcycle Maintenance". (Heaving a
sigh over his lost, stolen copy of "Stranger in a Strange Land".)
Now that he's *certain* no one is looking, he grabs at the slot
John the Wysard left, taking the next A.A.Milne book: "And Now We
Are Six". (Was that part of "pooh and poems"? Apparently.) He
hasn't read it in ages and ages. The burly brutish tiger creeps
back to his comfy chair by the fire, slips it into his
camoflaging book cover with the title "Tales of He-Men and
Warriors", and settles back to read by the light of the Hearth.
Tom
Leslie
>Qwerk admires the start of the library, and then starts bringing in the
>crates piled outside the door. "I've brought my SF collection from home;
>I know it will be treated well in the Place. We've got Adams, Anthony,
>Asimov, Aspirin, Benford, Bova,
"Tch." Leslie says. "You've left out Anderson! _The Avatar_, _The Merman's
Children_, _The Earth Book of Stormgate_...*and* you've left out Bester--
_The Demolished Man_, _The Computer Connection_..."
Bradbury, Bradley, Brin, Brooks, Bujold, Card,
>Chalker, Clarke, Cook, Dickson, Donaldson, Drake, Duncan, Eddings, Eisenstein,
>Ende, Farmer, Forward, Foster, Gear, Goldman, Hambley, Harrison, Hardy,
>Heinlein, Jordan, LeGuin, Laumer, Lawhead, Lem, L'Engle, Lewis, Lieber,
>McCaffrey, McKillip, Modesitt, Moon, Norton, Pohl, Robinson, Saberhagen,
>Silverberg, Simmons, Stasheff, Stephenson,
"...and Somtow Sucharitkul, _The Inquistor Trilogy_, _Mallworld_, (and,
writing as S.P. Somtow, _Vampire Junction_, and _Valentine_.)
Tolkien, Vinge, Vogt, Watt-Evans,
>Williams, Zelazny, and Zindell, to name a few. Some collections of the
>authors' wworks are more complete than others, and there's a definite
>emphasis on fantasy, but it's a pretty good start. Not quite MITSFS, of
>course, but what is?"
> He looks around for people to help unload the increasing pile of boxes.
"Be with you in *just* a second, qwerk--" Leslie says, grabbing a copy
of Zelazny's _Amber Chronicles_ and beginning to page through it...
Leslie. dba dei...@io.org, for a reason...
Brad Johnson
: Asimov's foundation series, including the robots and empire books.
"Put it next to my French copies..." qwerk says.
: Brust's Taltos series, for swords and stuff.
"I've always wanted to read those."
: Hobbit and Trilogy.
"Mm. more copies."
: Roger Zelazny's Crossroads and Damnation Alley.
'Now we're getting most of Zelazny; great!" qwerk notes.
: Adams, of course.
"I want that special new version."
: NO ANTHONY, ESPECIALLY NO XANTH. Bleagh.
"Sorry, we've already got the entire collected works of Anthony on the
shelves."
: Glory Road.
: Laumer's Retief series, and the Bolo series.
"The Laumer section's getting petty filled up," qwerk worries.
"We're starting to give MITSFS a run for their money!" qwerk exclaims.
--qwerk
BRUCE A. KLAISS
Harper Blue swivels around as the cart of books comes in and the
library (or the latest incarnation thereof) begins to be assembled.
A golden glow swells around him, splits off from his body, and
coalesces into the form of a new person(a). This person has the same
facial features as HB, but is dressed in a grey suit and tie, and is
slightly older. He turns to HB and says, "Our kind of place, huh?"
HB nods. "Uh huh; will be even more so in a year or thereabouts--
if you finish your degree that is. In the meantime, why don't you
offer services as reference librarian here? May Look Good on the Resume
in Future, You Know.:) And you can add these to the collection, after
I clone them."
HB places the green book he has been reading Millay from on the
bar, adds a few more volumes on top of it, then picks up his gitar.
Altering the tuning slightly (in a trick he learned from Joni
Mitchell), he points the instrument's head at the books and strums a
chord; now the books glow, then split into 2 piles. The grey suit
picks up one set and takes them over to the new library. The books
are the following:
_The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay_
Gibran, _The Prophet_
Dinesen, _Seven Gothic Tales_
Dante, _The Divine Comedy_ (Sayers translation)
_Dewey Decimal Classification, 20th ed._
_Sears List of Subject Headings_
Pulling a pad out of a briefcase, the librarian-persona starts
taking notes of holdings.
===============
Harper Blue (Bruce Klaiss)
MSLS student, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
"Congress shall make no law prohibiting freedom of speech,
or of the press, or of a person's head to explode from
information overload." -- Bill of Rights (Revision 1.1)
doc
pad...@netcom.com (Kit Padpaw) writes:
> >Twinkles pulls in a cart loaded with Comfy Chairs and Sofas, unhitches
> >herslef and begins unloading them in a new lobe of the Place which seems
> >to have suddenly appeared. It is lined with bookshelves.
doc rubs his hands with glee* A chance to further clear the taste of
The Eye of Argon out of my head! Lets, see. JRR and the Hobbit have
made their appearance; so I'll add The Black Company series by Glen
Cook; a marvelous series, essentially LOTR from the other side. Looks
like a lot of the crowd mirrors my tastes in hard sf.
Lets see; from other agendas, here's Monserrat's classic, The Cruel
Sea; and then All's Quiet on the Western Front, and just about all of
Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. Oh, and Fussel's The Great War and
Modern Memory. I'll work on a more detailed section of WWI Poets
later. Hmmmm; a neat new little book called Leadership Secrets of
Atilla the Hun (honest!) which should be required reading for both
business and academic management and anyone who plans to go that route.
Gee. I haven't even gotten to the sailing collection yet. Woosh
Ohhh.. this is FUN! and thirsty work.*doc digs deep in his pocket*
MIke, I think a round for the libary crew is in order.
David L. Arnold, Ed.D, EtC *
The Cobb Group,Educational Publications * If it's stupid and it
Opinions, I confess humbly, are my own. * works, it isn't stupid.
david_...@mm.cobb.ziff.com *
Your Name Here
new home. Her parents are threatening to move, and she has been informed
that she is actually supposed to do something with her library because
they refuse to muve it. She reaches into her backpack, and starts
to place books on the shelves:
I Claudius, and Claudius the God
about 3/4 of Robert B. Parker's Spenser books
the complete works of Katherine Kurtz
Canterbury Tales
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
Jill Marie
/leave the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul/-
Flansburgh and Linnell
Sheeyun Park
finish this one."
Shpark takes a copy of _Anna Karenin_ and replaces it with _Sometimes a
Great Notion_ (by Ken Kesey). He settles into a comfy chair and flips
through the final chapters.
shpark
do i need a library card?
Rowan Fairgrove
bibliophile, she is trying to think what she might offer
to the mix.
Geoffrey Bibbey's _Testimony of the Spade_, a wonderful book
on European archaeology. Several volumes on the Celtic and
Roman worlds by Barry Cunliffe, Anne Ross's classic, _Pagan
Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition_.
And as reference books are always useful in a bar, let's have
Miranda Green's _Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend_ and
Daithi O hOgain's _Myth, Legend and Romance: An Encyclopedia
of the Irish Folk Tradition_.
Some good fantasy reading, Robin McKinley's _The Blue Sword_,
Patricia Wrightson's Hero trilogy, some Thomas Burnett Swan,
and Richard Purtill to follow up on Swan.
A goodly set of quotation books, almanacs and world history
timelines for settling bets and bar discussions.
Gypsy looks at the stack she has contributed and decides to
leave room for other's ideas. :-)
Sanford E. Walke IV
: Sanford E. Walke IV (se...@izzy.net) wrote:
: : Hobbit and Trilogy.
: "Mm. more copies."
Ahh, but these are Ace Science Fiction-published editions. My Lady Kelly
(who just celebrated our 1st anniversary last night with me) is a HUGE reader
of the trilogy (something like 20-30 times). I bought her the first and
second books at a garage sale for $.25 each, and went looking for The Return
of the King at used book stores, so I could have a complete set of that
edition to give her, to go with her other 9 sets. $9.50!!! Seems that
that's a rare bootleg edition. Only one printing. Lucky me, hmmmm.
Interesting story, though, isn't it?
Leslie
se...@izzy.net (Sanford E. Walke IV) writes:
>BRUCE A. KLAISS (S_BAK...@vaxa.clarion.edu) wrote:
>: _Dewey Decimal Classification, 20th ed._
>: _Sears List of Subject Headings_
>
>handy and useful books in the world.
>
>Sandy, the son of a librarian
"You did know kitten *IS* a librarian, didn't you, Sandy? And to add
to the non-fiction shelves, _The Way Things Work_, but I don't remember
the author. And how about _Grey's Anatomy_?"
Leslie. My idea of a vacation: two weeks in a bookstore.
Sam Voeller
<Twinkles t.w.h. sets up a library>
: and waits to see what other patrons shelve.
Sam pulls a few of her favorites out to help line the shelves:
The Earthsea Trilogy (Le Guin), 3 Calvin and Hobbes collections, 5 Far
Side collections, The Dog who Wouldn't Be (Mowatt), Too Many Songs by Tom
Lehrer, about 15 Dick Francis novels, Les Miserables (Hugo), The Portable
Dorothy Parker, Twist of the Wrist 1 & II (Code), all the Kinsey Milhone
books by Sue Grafton, and The Ruling Class (Barnes?).
--Sam
Kristin A. Ruhle
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Dante's Divine Comedy (John Ciardi translation)
Complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Complete works of John Milton
"Lessee," she says, "now for the token science fiction one...do we
already have _Moving Mars_ by Greg Bear?" She digs through a seemingly
bottomless pit of a tote bag and brings out another book: _To the Stars_
by George Takei. "I haven't really gotten started on this one yet," she
says. "Is he less of an asshole than Shatner?"
Kristin Ruhle
English major
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Diane Duane
In article <3jnlpo$9...@izzy4.izzy.net>, Sanford E. Walke IV (se...@izzy.net) writes:
>Thomas Baker (tomb...@acs2.bu.edu) wrote:
>: nearly did, thinks Tom), (with Len Deighton's "SS-GB" and Philip
>
>Is SS-GB any good? I've had it for years, and never gotten around to reading
>it.
Peter says "Ehh", which I take to mean that you shouldn't break
your heart if you don't get around to it: but leave it in the
bathroom, in case of an idle half-hour.
Right now he's rereading BOMBER, subsequent to the BBC's excellent
8-hour (on and off, "realtime") radio dramatization of it a
coupla-few weeks ago.
Mary Ann Dimand
> Red Bear is delighted to add
>
> The Communist Manifesto
> Collected works of Lenin
> All novels of Howard Fast
> Encyclopedia of the American Left
> History of the CPUSA
"Ah, shucks-- let's add all of Jessica Mitford's books while we're in the
neighbourhood!"
Mary Ann Dimand
> The Prof, hoping to add something for the non-SF crowd, donates his five
> favorite novels:
[including]
> Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Twinkles cheers, and cheerfully slips a copy of Robert Merton's _On the
Shoulders of Giants_ on the shelf beside it.
Mary Ann Dimand
> PS I missed the "rules" for the library. Are they books we've read or
> books we own? I HAVE at one time owned all the books I've added so far
As instigator of this incarnation of the library Twinkles rules that it
include *only* books we've read, books we've owned, books we'd like to
read, books which exists and books which don't exist.
She gleefully places a copy of Pierre Menard's _Don Quixote_ on the
shelf, and waits for a lively blind librarian to appear.
Red Bear
> On Thu, 9 Mar 1995, Red Bear wrote:
>
> > PS I missed the "rules" for the library. Are they books we've read or
> > books we own? I HAVE at one time owned all the books I've added so far
>
> As instigator of this incarnation of the library Twinkles rules that it
> include *only* books we've read, books we've owned, books we'd like to
> read, books which exists and books which don't exist.
In that case, let me contribute several books that
haven't written yet
Memoirs of a Communist US Senator
The Fall of Capitalism
The Restoration of the Soviet Union
Cuba, A Paradise for Workers of the Americas
Don Long AKA Red Bear red...@cinenet.net
UCLA retired Prodigy LREA50B
ag...@lafn.org
"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love"
Che Guevara
Jane Beckman
"Yes, yes, yes!!!" Jilara enthuses. "Let's also add in
anything by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Charles de Lint!"
--
Jilara the Exile [ja...@swdc.stratus.com]
That's how freedom will end: not with a bang, but with a rustle of file
folders. If you love any of your rights, defend all of them!
-Joe Chew, on the net
Alan Smith
Big Al. "SHe compared herself to cleopatra, and his emotions were much as mark
anthony's would have been if on entering the queens throne room she had risen
and without a word of warning started to dance the black bottom." -- _the
World of Mr. Mulliner_.
Red Bear
<necessary snipping to satisfy posting requirements>
>
> Red Bear:
> : In that case, let me contribute several books that
> : haven't written yet
> : Memoirs of a Communist US Senator
> : The Fall of Capitalism
> : The Restoration of the Soviet Union
> : Cuba, A Paradise for Workers of the Americas
>
> will be written:
>
> The Trial of the Gulag Commandants
What about "Fundamentals of Prison Reform" by J Stalin?
Also, "Communist Party Retirement Plans" by the same
author with assistance from the Mafia.
;-)
In all seriousness, I am probably more opposed to Stalin
than you are. After all, he betrayed MY beliefs, not yours!
;=) (winking, with a fat nose?)
Earthwind
>> Mythago Wood (Robert Holdstock)
>
>"Yes, yes, yes!!!" Jilara enthuses. "Let's also add in
>anything by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Charles de Lint!"
"Although its not as good as MW, I should add Lavondyss (Holdstock)
....ooooooo, and here's another excellent one, _Little, Big_
(John Crowley). There's a phrase that dominates the later that always
reminded of me Mythago Wood:
'The farther in you go, the bigger it gets.'
It fits both books wonderfully, although in one case it refers to a
forest and in the other to a house."
Earthwind
--
Paul Hinecker
pm_...@vega.concordia.ca
Tom A Baker
ddu...@owlsprings.win-uk.net (Diane Duane) writes:
D
D In article <3jnlpo$9...@izzy4.izzy.net>, Sanford E. Walke IV
D (se...@izzy.net) writes:
D >
D >Thomas Baker (tomb...@acs2.bu.edu) wrote:
D >: nearly did, thinks Tom), (with Len Deighton's "SS-GB" and Philip
D >
D >Is SS-GB any good? I've had it for years, and never gotten
D >around to reading it.
D
D Peter says "Ehh", which I take to mean that you shouldn't break
D your heart if you don't get around to it: but leave it in the
D bathroom, in case of an idle half-hour.
"I don't -quite- know how to take that," Tom smiles as he looks up
from his borrowed Milne. "'Ehh' doesn't say much in the first place
(not even says if he read the book or this newsgroup), and it's been
interpreted by someone who doesn't seem to know the book at all. But
I'm guessing she might be recommending the book.
"Look, it's a 'what-if/alternate history' plot set in an England
that Hitler conquered, written in the tradition of World War 2
novels. If your tastes run to that sort of thing, it can be a
significant read.
"The main character, a London detective, is assigned to an SS
officer to act as his assistant in crime work. Together the two
of them investigate a mystery (sort of a screwed up Holmes and
Watson). Along the way, the detective sees a lot of
Nazi-occupied England ...
"In one scene that stayed with me, the Germans shut down a
grammar school for some violation, and herd the children into
trucks to take them off to death camps. The kids are upset and
scared, of course, but one old Cockney fellow bends down to one
and starts singing: if you're happy and you know it clap your hands
if you're happy and you know it clap your hands
"... and soon has all the trucks full of singing, clapping
children, heading off to their deaths like the it was another
field trip."
He still happily turns the pages of his Milne book.
"Like I said, it all depends on what you're in the mood for. The
question 'Is it any good?' depends on the reader..."
(Tom's gotten to a part where Christopher Robin describes the
wooded area, where you *might* be able to count the trees if you
tied a string around each as you counted it, and where it's still
unknown whether there's sixty-seven or sixty-eight. He forgets
the people around him.)
Tom
-----
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Email me at tomb...@world.std.com)
(don't try chmeee...@patri.gov.kzin.kz) Copyright(C)1995 Thomas A.J.F. Baker
It is later than you think. Reproduction permitted w/in newsgroup.
Red Bear
<snip,snip>
>
> Red Bear becomes more ecumenical and generic with his:
> : DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk"
> : Arthur Miller "The Crucible"
> : Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath"
> : :->
> : Karl Marx correspondent for the New York Times during the
> : Civil War (don't know what he wrote)
>
> The Prof will see your three pretty good books (plus that last toss on, a
> third-rate political economist, third-rate philosopher, and nasty SOB),
> and raise you:
>
> F.A. Hayek, _The Fatal Conceit_
> Thomas Sowell, _The Politics and Economics of Race_
> Robert Michels, _Political Parties_
> and (the Prof hefts it up to the table)
> Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_
>
> Cheers, ACK
Oh, no! NOT Ayn Rand!
I'll have to fold on that round.>
I've temporarily exhausted my memory of good lefties
But, in the immortal words of Arnold Schwartznegger,
"I'll be back!"
:-) or
"Hasta la vista,baby!"
Dosbedanya
Bill Gawne
>*must* add _The Incompleat Enchanter_
Bill, who has been waiting as the library develops, decides that with
this latest addition he'll have to mention something.
"Uh, Harper? Over there," Bill points toward the French Doors (tm), "just
on the other side - especially at this time of year - there's an island
we call the Island of FoFF, or Flights of Fancy Free. You can find Harold
and Belphebe Shea there. They've been there for about a year now, and the
last time I checked Harold was looking younger every day."
Meanwhile, Bill has found his copy of _The Complete Compleat Enchanter_
to add to the library next to Harper's book.
Stepping back to survey the rapidly growing collection, Bill notes that
RAH is well represented. Bill adds a hardcover copy of _Time Enough For
Love_ and two copies of _Glory Road_ to the shelf beside the one copy
of _Glory Road_ that is already there. He figures that GR will be a
popular volume with the Patrons of The Place so three copies won't be
too many. Looking at the Asimov collection, Bill adds _Far As Human
Eye Can See_.
Moving to the historical fiction, Bill shelves all the works of C. S.
Forester including the Horatio Hornblower stories, _The General_, and
Bill's treasure, _The Good Shepherd_. Then Bill adds Patrick O'Brian's
_Master and Commander_ and _Post Captain_ to the shelf, and wonders if
any other patrons will bring in the remaining 14 O'Brian books that
Bill hasn't yet found time to read. Then he adds:
by Irving Stone: The Agony and The Ecstacy, and Those Who Love
by Leon Uris: Exodus, Battle Cry, Mila 18, QB VII
by James Webb: Fields of Fire, A Sense of Honor, Something To Die For
Bill considers adding some of his technical library, but decides that
James and Bans and DM all have their own copies of most of those books,
so he'll keep his copies in his office for now. But since Carl has
donated the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Bill adds the CRC
Standard Math Tables to the shelf beside the big red book.
Bill Gawne - in Callahan's as in real life. <ga...@rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Senior Spacecraft Analyst, XTE | Disclaimer: Nothing I post in
Science Operations Facility; and | alt.callahans represents an official
Master Sergeant, US Marine Corps Reserve.| position of any organization.
Bill Gawne
returning to the SF area adds Vernor Vinge's _A Fire Upon The Deep_
to the shelf.
Carl J Lydick
>"Tch." Leslie says. "You've left out Anderson!
"Which one?" asks StM. "Karen or Poul?"
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I try very hard to say exactly what I mean. I'd appreciate it if you'd
bear that in mind and not try to "interpret" my posts to fit your own
preconceived notions if I'm posting in a serious thread. Remember: If you
throw a strawman into a heated debate, flames are likely to be the result.
Alan Kors
respectively, the Prof shocking Red Bear with....]:
: > F.A. Hayek, _The Fatal Conceit_
: > Thomas Sowell, _The Politics and Economics of Race_
: > Robert Michels, _Political Parties_
: > and (the Prof hefts it up to the table)
: > Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_
[Red Bear]:
: Oh, no! NOT Ayn Rand!
: I'll have to fold [snip]
: I've temporarily exhausted my memory of good lefties
: But, in the immortal words of Arnold Schwartznegger,
: "I'll be back!"
Well, Rand One to the Prof, but what are those weighty tomes Red Bear is
bringing now? The Prof offers Red Bear a Solidarnosc Vodka. Cheers, ACK
Leslie
Carl J Lydick <lyd...@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU> writes:
>In article <1995Mar7.1...@bsuvc.bsu.edu>,
>00mas...@VIRGO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU (Leslie) writes:
>>"Tch." Leslie says. "You've left out Anderson!
>
>"Which one?" asks StM. "Karen or Poul?"
"Well, I mentioned the book _The Earthbook of Stormgate_, so I meant
Poul. *I* forgot Karen!"
Leslie. So many books, so little time..
METZLER SANDRA TAIMI
>> As the last volume of the Wheel of Time goes up, the shelf
>> collapses under the great weight.
>>
>Jill Marie cautiously peeks out from behind the stacks where she has
>taken cover during the avalanche. She sits down near the huge pile of
>tumbled books. "They keep telling me, but I always forget: the Jordan
>ALWAYS goes on the bottom shelf. It stays so much more stable that
>way. I really should have learned my lesson about the long ones after
>the jumbo, both parts edidion of Tad Wiliam's To Green Angel Tower
>nearly took out my bookshelf area."
>She joins back into the shelving party.
hearing the sound of books falling, the taim rushes over to help pick
the books back up. "hi, jill. i noticed you already put up
cantebury tales--thanks"
as the wheel of time is finally set in place (on the bottom shelf),
the taim usurps another free shelf and puts in the complete collection
of the Oz books--well, not complete, only about 50 of them. on another
shelf, sie places a copy of milton's Paradise Lost, and finally, lovingly,
a copy of the Kalevala, the epic of Finland.
sie hovers, thinking of ilmarinen, then of the patchwork girl and jack
pumpkinhead, then of the king of the octagon islands--and pulls down
Pirates in Oz. "it's been years..." sie sighs, sinking into the comfy
chair, "sorry, jill, would help with the rest but...."
the taim
christopher robin goes hoppity hoppity
hoppity hoppity hop.
and when i ask him politely to stop, he
says he can't possibly stop.
if he stopped hopping, he couldn't go anywhere.
poor little christopher couldn't go anywhere.
that's why he keeps on
hoppity hoppity
hoppity
hoppity
hop.
-a.a.milne
Diane Duane
In article <D5CG7...@cortex.ama.ttuhsc.edu>, Catherine Faber (c...@MARVIN.ama.ttuhsc.edu) writes:
> Cat Sitting-Still phases in like a Cheshire Cat. . . smile
>first.
> "It just occurred to me that this is a *virtual* library. Do
>the books we add have to exist yet?"
> With a flourish she places her palms together, then opens them,
>as if opening a book. A brightly colored paperback appears in her hands;
>she frowns slightly, closes and re-opens it, and settles crosslegged
>on the floor to read the hardcover version of _The Door Into Starlight_.
> "I have first dibs; I had the idea first. But the rest of you
>can read it as soon as I'm done, I promise."
(Constant Writer clutches her head.)
*Would you get me a copy, please??!* D.
Diane Duane / part of the Owl Springs Partnership, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Adding a new e-mail address: owls...@iol.ie
BPGriffin
into the new Library and examines any number of old favourites with
pleasure. Seeing that a few can yet be added, he pulls
off his spectacles and waves 'em in the air 'Ah,
they're magic in a really good library - thought they would be'
A few gaps in the shelves fill in:
For all Callahanians in need of repose and the Master's touch,
'Blandings Castle', and the other 10 or so P.G. Wodehouse
Blandings books.
Because they ought be here: the complete Calvin and Hobbes
(Woo , that one's not been published yet ; this IS
magic).
The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan.
After all that levity, a bit of gravitas - A peculiar tall, narrow case
filled
w/virtual twins of his own antiquarian volumes, including
Cotton's Montaigne, Colloquies of Erasmus, a very pretty
17th cen Works of Juvenal - all good for a browse - an early
Herbert's 'Temple', Walton's Lives of Herbert, Donne, et al
(w/preentation inscription by author), an Elizabethean
Dueties of Cicero - - a little refreshment
for the spirit - Stowe's Chronicle (1607), for peculiar
medieval facts....et al.
And because this is magic, a final spectacle-gesture adds
William Morris' Kelmscott Chaucer, probably the most beautiful
book ever made. Gryphon sighs, because at home, its only
a replica, but he contents himself w/glancing over the
real Burne-Jones engravings
--
Gryphon >Hobbes: Watcha doing? Calvin: Looking
bpgr...@aol.com >for frogs H: How come? C: I must obey
371 E Lamb St >the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.
Bellefonte, PA 16823 > - Watterson
Speaker-to-Minerals
=The Mandelbear brings in a tattered virtual copy of _You Will Never be the
=Same_ and adds it to the shelf, along with the rest of the complete works of
=Cordwainer Smith. "Be careful with these," he says; "Old paperbacks get
=fragile. Especially check out `Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons' -- it's the
=first story in _Space Lords_. Basically this guy invented the booby-trapped
=CGI script in 1961."
"Y'gotta watch out for them Norstrilians, mate," cautions Stm.
M. or R. Hilp
_The Decameron_ (Giovanni Boccaccio) as trans.by G.H.McWilliam
A set of Gilbert & Sullivan
_The Trouble With Angels_ (can't remember the author; it's essentially
an anecdotal survival handbook for students at an all-girls' school
She smiles angelically. "I'm a survivor!")
_Touch for Health_ (a book of massage technique using 'trigger points'.
"If anyone wants to practice ..." she stretches her back, winces, and
groans dramatically.)
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Speaker-to-Minerals <lyd...@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU> wrote:
>
>If you're going to try to post a Russian word, and you're not using a Cyrillic
>alphabet, try to get the transliteration right:
> do svedanya
>Two words. And since we're using the Latin alphabet, we'll represent the sound
>of a v with a v.
Ruby Tuesday grimaces. "Eh, read any Celtic lately? 'Using the Latin
alphabet' is no excuse! For that matter, try a Pinyin transliteration
without yer handy-dandy phonetic definitions list!"
Jane Beckman
>
>"Which one?" asks StM. "Karen or Poul?"
"What about Hans Christian?"
Mike Smith
: Because they ought be here: the complete Calvin and Hobbes
: magic).
"How could I have forgotten Calvin and Hobbes?" DMike wonders as he adds
the complete Farside, including a calendar where every day brings a new
laugh.
He also adds _Barbara: the unconscious autobiography of a child genius_.
DMike
The Polymath
"Well ... lessee ..."
Start with all the Hornblower books, followed by all the Flandry books.
Leave a note recommending they be read in that order.
A hard cover edition of _Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_,
by Douglas Hofstadter.
"In the hopes of elevating the level of the gun control discussions:"
_Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America_, by Gary Kleck.
_The Samurai, The Mountie and The Cowboy_, by David Kopel.
Miscellaneous criminology texts by Wright & Rossi.
_The NRA Firearms Facts Book_ (Nomex(tm) edition (-: ).
"Finally, for just plain mindless escape, <grunt>: A complete set of the
"Destroyer" series by Sapir and Murphy -- all 100+ of them. <thump!>"
"BTW, speaking of building libraries, people often ask 'Just what does
Mensa do, anyway?' No, that's not really a non-sequitur. One activity
Mensa members started a few years ago is called 'Project Inkslinger.' It
began when floods in the mid-west wiped out the library in a small town
and Mensans across the country collected and donated upwards of 15,000
books to start a new one. The project continues now, helping wherever it
can.
"I expect a relatively high proportion of Callahan's patrons qualify for
Mensa. If you've been looking for a reason/excuse to join our horribly
elitist society, maybe I've just given you one."
The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: holl...@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp "Learning about the U.S. from the popular
3100 Ocean Park Blvd. media is like learning about plumbing by
Santa Monica, CA 90405 sitting in a cesspool." -- Michael Phelps
Katherine Bryant
appeared, but, in any case, she brings in a pile of her own to add.
"Let's see... here's Josephine Tey's _The Daughter of Time_ (now who did
I loan my RL copy to this time?)... Ronald Numbers's _The Creationists_
(excellent, balanced history)... James Thurber's _The Thirteen Clocks_...
the complete writings of Galileo... _Winnie-the-Pooh_ and _The House at
Pooh Corner_, along with _Now We Are Six_ and _When We Were Very Young_ ...
Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_... some Ellis Peters mysteries... as much Dorothy
Sayers as possible... oh, and a good dictionary of quotations... and
Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_."
"That ought to be enough from me.... if not more than enough!"
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"The missing mass? It's here on my desk somewhere...." -- me and my housemate
Valentine...........................................kbryant@husc.harvard.edu
Sanford E. Walke IV
: "In the hopes of elevating the level of the gun control discussions:"
: _Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America_, by Gary Kleck.
: _The Samurai, The Mountie and The Cowboy_, by David Kopel.
: Miscellaneous criminology texts by Wright & Rossi.
: _The NRA Firearms Facts Book_ (Nomex(tm) edition (-: ).
Don't forget "Guns, Crime, and Freedom" by Wayne LaPierre.
: "Finally, for just plain mindless escape, <grunt>: A complete set of the
: "Destroyer" series by Sapir and Murphy -- all 100+ of them. <thump!>"
Oh, we've been forgetting Doc Savage all this time!!!
-----
Sandy
se...@izzy.net
"Cuius testiculos habes, habes cordia et cerebellum."
I don't speak for anyone but me, and sometimes not even that.
Leslie
>Ruby Tuesday has found some more good'uns --
>
>_The Decameron_ (Giovanni Boccaccio) as trans.by G.H.McWilliam
>
>A set of Gilbert & Sullivan
>
>_The Trouble With Angels_ (can't remember the author; it's essentially
> an anecdotal survival handbook for students at an all-girls' school
> She smiles angelically. "I'm a survivor!")
Leslie adds the movie version of the above (starring Hayley Mills) to
the video library, too.
Leslie. Who has many scathingly brilliant ideas.
The Polymath
}... "Let's also add in
}anything by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Charles de Lint!"
"Well ... not quite _anything_. I like most of de Lint's stuff, but I've
encountered at least one of his books I couldn't finish. The title
escapes me, but it was much too much of a romance novel for my taste --
enough so that I began to wonder if it was written by the same person who
wrote "Moonheart," e.g. It's made me a bit cautious about reading him,
but I haven't found any other clunkers, yet.
"Of course, we need a section for everything by Steven Brust (but hang a
warning note on _The Phoenix Guards_) and another for everything by
Cordwainer Smith (aka: The late Dr. Paul Linebarger). I've never quite
forgiven him for passing away before he finished describing his universe.
(Now we'll never know who The Robot, The Rat and The Copt were)."
Marc C Allain
>In article <3jqca5$p...@mozz.unh.edu> m...@christa.unh.edu
>Marc C Allain writes:
>: In article <> tomb...@world.std.com writes:
>: >: _Principia Discordia_
>:
>: Patchmaker pops back in. "Hey! Is there a section for imaginary
>: books? Someone should add the Necronomicon, the Pnakotic Manuscripts,
>: and the simple directions for filling out you tax forms."
>
>"What the-?" Tom looks at Patchmaker's message, a bit mystified. "Marc,
>I think you should go back a couple of messages." Now he sees the string of
>article refs in the "References:" line, and nods.
>
>"I did not suggest Principia Discordia, I was just quoting from Joe Knecht,
>article (from out at University of Hawaii, apparently). "
>
>"But Patchmaker was the one who caught that this might be an imaginary
>book. I have my own short list of those myself -- I'd love to read
>all the Ralph von Wau Wau stories (by J. Somers III, a fictional author
>created by Kilgore Trout), plus the collected works of T.S.Garp."
>
Sorry. Got clumsy on attributions...again, although I wasn't really
too concerned with who put it there anyway.
Besides, I have not only been informed that the Principia Discordia
exists, but have been given Web addresses for it.
Of course, now I want to know if it exists the same way the
Necronomicon exists...
--
I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. Patchmaker
But if you'd like me to play one, I'll even Marc C Allain
make housecalls. M...@CHRISTA.UNH.EDU
RCM...@delphi.com
Quoting santa from a message in alt.callahans
> In article <3jqu6c$3...@cutter.clas.ufl.edu>, RubyTwo
><Rub...@aol.com> wrote: >
> >Also Watership Down by Richard Adams.
> Ruby Tuesday wracks her brains for the name of the other book -- about
> the terrier from the experimental lab and his big mutt friend ... to no
> avail so she takes her brains off the racks and starts cudgeling them,
> but nearby patrons stop her before it gets too messy. "Aargh! and I
> liked the dog book *better* than the rabbit book! What was it called?"
"The Plague Dogs," Harper says helpfully.
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Speaker-to-Minerals
=All 24 novelizations of "The Man From UNCLE"
StM adds _The Final Affair_ (somehow, I doubt that Joe was counting that as one
of the novelizations).
Speaker-to-Minerals
="Finally, for just plain mindless escape, <grunt>: A complete set of the
="Destroyer" series by Sapir and Murphy -- all 100+ of them. <thump!>"
StM adds the movie version of one Destroyer story (starring Tony Randall, if I
recall correctly) to the video library.
="BTW, speaking of building libraries, people often ask 'Just what does
=Mensa do, anyway?' No, that's not really a non-sequitur. One activity
=Mensa members started a few years ago is called 'Project Inkslinger.' It
=began when floods in the mid-west wiped out the library in a small town
=and Mensans across the country collected and donated upwards of 15,000
=books to start a new one. The project continues now, helping wherever it
=can.
=
="I expect a relatively high proportion of Callahan's patrons qualify for
=Mensa.
Well, perhaps. But most of us have the good taste not to join. I'll stick
with my membership in Tau Beta Pi.
Thomas Baker
: Besides, I have not only been informed that the Principia Discordia
: exists, but have been given Web addresses for it.
: Of course, now I want to know if it exists the same way the
: Necronomicon exists...
The notion of imaginary books --- Tom cocks his head, then smiles,
reaches into his bag, and pulls out ...
a copy of "The End of The World".
And puts it in the non-fiction area.
"Anybody ever look through this book?"
Tom
P.S.
Okay, "The World" was one of the newspapers around
towards the beginning of the century. It folded
in the early thirties, and someone wrote a book
about it.
Thomas Baker
: In article <jadmireD...@netcom.com>, jad...@netcom.com (Joseph
: A. Admire) writes:
: =All 24 novelizations of "The Man From UNCLE"
: StM adds _The Final Affair_ (somehow, I doubt that Joe was counting that as
: one of the novelizations).
Tom asks, "Is that a bunch of proofs, or a bound book? I didn't know
of a publishing run of it. I did hear tell that the typesetting was expertly
executed."
barbara trumpinski
>="I expect a relatively high proportion of Callahan's patrons qualify for
>=Mensa.
speaker:
>Well, perhaps. But most of us have the good taste not to join. I'll stick
>with my membership in Tau Beta Pi.
kitten giggles..."my lovefriend jan is not in mensa, but she used to
be partnered with a person who was...said they give kickass parties."
--
kit...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
/\ /\ smotu "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"
{=.=} '...the conspiracy of the living is to help one
~ another carry on.' rita mae brown
Sanford E. Walke IV
: >>Also Watership Down by Richard Adams.
: >Ruby Tuesday wracks her brains for the name of the other book -- about
: >the terrier from the experimental lab and his big mutt friend ... "Aargh! and I
: >liked the dog book *better* than the rabbit book! What was it called?"
: "It was _Plague Dogs._ I liked it too but I have to wonder what
: Richard Adams was going through when he wrote it...the fits of madness
: the terrier has are just too disturbingly real, and the whole of what I've
: read so far is so bleak, and the cruel twists of fate are sometimes
: crueller than what he accuses the scientists of doing, and he _wrote_
: the darn thing, how could he do that to the poor terrier? --if you know
: what I mean. I got halfway through & was then interrupted before I
: can finish. It's been too long to finish now so I have to wait until I
: forget enough to start over."
I just saw that movie! I was wondering what it was, it was playing at the
local BlockBuster Video while I was looking for some violent sexist thing
to watch. It looked like a kids show, at first, then it didn't. Fairly
depressing, especially the end.
Jonathan Hatch
: In article <jadmireD...@netcom.com>, jad...@netcom.com (Joseph A. Admire) writes:
: =All 24 novelizations of "The Man From UNCLE"
: StM adds _The Final Affair_ (somehow, I doubt that Joe was counting that as one
: of the novelizations).
Yog pulls out a large pile of laserprinted text, not yet bound.
"And, hot off of the presses sometime in the future, The Entire
Transcription of The Callahan's Bar Affair by The UNCLE/THRUSH Writer's
group!!"
He pauses. "I wonder how it ends? I think I'm in that one."
He turns to the last page, but before he can begin to read, Kayleigh snaps
at one of his fingers.
<No Cheating! That's something worthy of your cousin Nyarlathotep.
Really!>
"Sorry, Kayleigh." Yog says shamefacedly as he shelves the now-bound
papers.
--
Yog Shoggoth a.k.a. Jonathan Hatch a.k.a. Cap'n Crash&burn
Someone objected to my last .sig as offensive to Pakistanis. While it *is*
possible that they were putting me on, I would not want to take the
chance. I try to avoid offending people whenever possible. Except Mimes.
Mark Beirne Lively
for .. Marc C All...@christa.un (1569)
> Besides, I have not only been informed that the Principia Discordia
> exists, but have been given Web addresses for it.
It does exist and I have read part of it. principia Discordia or How I
found the Goddess and what I did with her when I did. I think I can dig
up a copy of it somewhere if you would like me to email it to
you.(actually if you send me the web sight I can yank it down and then
email it to you.
Joseph Knecht
: Excerpts from netnews.alt.callahans: 16-Mar-95 Re: Building a library
it exists, and i have (or at least had) possession of two copies, one
from loompanics, and one from steve jackson games. both, in my opinion,
fairly cool institutions, all in all. 8) and a nice thing about the
Principia Discordia is that it's copywronged. meaning, you're free to
disseminate any and all of it, as you wish, and use any of it as you wish.
dave
Catherine Faber
:Diane Duane writes:
:
:> Cat Sitting-Still phases in like a Cheshire Cat. . . smile
:>first.
:> "It just occurred to me that this is a *virtual* library. Do
:>the books we add have to exist yet?"
:> With a flourish she places her palms together, then opens them,
:>as if opening a book. A brightly colored paperback appears in her hands;
:>she frowns slightly, closes and re-opens it, and settles crosslegged
:>on the floor to read the hardcover version of _The Door Into Starlight_.
:> "I have first dibs; I had the idea first. But the rest of you
:>can read it as soon as I'm done, I promise."
:
:(Constant Writer clutches her head.)
:
:*Would you get me a copy, please??!* D.
Cat looks up and the book fades to mist and moonshine between
her fingers. "Don't I just wish I could," she says wryly. "I'd even
let you read it" she assumes the air of one making a wrenching sacrifice
"*first*."
"Hmm..." she brightens. "That gives me an idea..."
Yours-- Cat Sitting-Still (heh heheh heheheh)
Andy May
lyd...@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU "Speaker-to-Minerals" writes:
> In article <1995Mar16.0...@ttinews.tti.com>, holl...@polymath.tti.com
> (The Polymath) writes:
> ="I expect a relatively high proportion of Callahan's patrons qualify for
> =Mensa.
>
> Well, perhaps. But most of us have the good taste not to join. I'll stick
> with my membership in Tau Beta Pi.
Personally I rate my "Dennis the Menace" club membership more highly
than that of Mensa.
[journeyman]
--
Sidhe Who Must be Obeyed
down the sack on a table near the bookshelf.
"I'm not quite sure this is the proper place and manner to de-lurk, but I
can't help but notice a few of my favorite books are missing from here -
so I thought I'd contribute them to the collection...."
a copy of the Riverside edition of the complete works of Shakespeare
both volumes of "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Thomas Malory
a complete collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales
a rather dogeared copy of "Watership Down," by Richard Adams
and, finally, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
Wilson
She places these boks upon the shelves, standing on tiptoe to reach the
higher shelves. Then, brushing her long hair back from her eyes in what
seems to be a habitual gesture, she moves over to the bar. "I don't
suppose you have any Jasmine tea here?" she asks, rummaging through her
seemingly bottomless backpack looking for her wallet....
--
******************************************************************************
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet * Rebecca Leanne Schoenberg
are of imagination all compact." * ban...@ties.org
- Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" * Leah Anne of Bellemont
*****************************************************************************
Jonathan Hatch
: Joe raises his eyebrow at Yog as he cleans his UNCLE Special. "Turning
: to the last page to see how it comes out, eh, Yog? Stephen King named
: that in *Danse Macabre* as one of his pet peeves. He proposed a neat way
: to fix their wagons, though...he proposed one day to publish a novel that
: had the last few pages left out, so that anyone who wanted to know how
: things turned out had to write in with a synopsis of the book to prove
: they'd read it in order to receive the climax!"
: He looks down the barrel of the pistol. "Hmmm." He gets more patches
: and cracks a fresh bottle of gun oil.
"awww, Joe! I wouldn't do that with a book I was *reading*!! I was tempted
precisely because I am a character *in* the story and I want to know ahead
of time if my relatives are going to become aware of me.
"IMO, better than the idea S.K. put forth, publish a book with a fake
ending at the end. I mean, end the story, then have a couple of lines of
space, then a not saying that the following is merely to mess with the
people who don't read the whole thing and have 30 pages of strange, weird,
and unrelated material.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yog Shoggoth a.k.a. Jonathan Hatch a.k.a. Cap'n Crash&burn
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND. IT IS REALITY THAT IS MALFUNCTIONING.
rmk
] In article <3kalbl$3...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
The voice from the shadows whispers:
Just ask yourself. Why would Wilt Chamberlain join a club for tall
people. (insert basketball appropriate to your generation)
...rmk
--
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college,
- Tom Masson (1866-1934)
barbara trumpinski
>Sou tosses in another non-SF book, but one of the good ones.. especially
>if you've spent much time in the American West...
>'Desert Solitaire' by Edward Abbey appears on the overfull bookshelf
>(although one may be tempted to ask.. esp after seeing my RL bookshelves
>if any can truly overflow..)
>Oh, and also the entire run of Maison Ikkoku for those of you w/ a manga
>bent..
"yes!!!!!!!!" kitten and t.c. cried over the end of maison
ikkoku..."that is a wonderful show.
M. or R. Hilp
putting books on both the fiction and non-fiction shelves. "Although
in RL I only own the Ozark trilogy -- which keeps getting borrowed and
not returned! -- and _The Judas Rose_ and _Yonder Comes the Other End
of Time_."
M. or R. Hilp
>bottomless pit of a tote bag and brings out another book: _To the Stars_
>by George Takei. "I haven't really gotten started on this one yet," she
>says. "Is he less of an asshole than Shatner?"
Ruby Tuesday offers her a copy of George Takei's _Mirror Friend, Mirror
Foe_. "Going by this, I think he's real good," she says.
M. or R. Hilp
>>
>>"Which one?" asks StM. "Karen or Poul?"
Jilara:
>"What about Hans Christian?"
Ruby Tuesday adds a copy of Disney's musical _Hans Christian Anderson_
to the video library. Then she puts a stack of 1960's vintage "holograph"
cover Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale books on the shelves.
M. or R. Hilp
>A short girl carrying a heavy knapsack walks into the Place, and puts
>down the sack on a table near the bookshelf.
>
>"I'm not quite sure this is the proper place and manner to de-lurk, but I
>can't help but notice a few of my favorite books are missing from here -
>so I thought I'd contribute them to the collection...."
Ruby Tuesday declares, "This is the very best place and manner to de-lurk!"
She watches as SWMbO pulls out books ...
>[...]finally, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
>Wilson
"I haven't read that in years!" Ruby T. exclaims, thumbing through them
with pleasure.
>[...]suppose you have any Jasmine tea here?" she asks, rummaging through her
>seemingly bottomless backpack looking for her wallet....
"-- May I buy your drink?" Ruby T. asks, dropping the book on the table and
putting a dollar on the bar.
Lisa A. Reeves
In a previous article, sa...@agora.rdrop.com (M. or R. Hilp) says:
>Ruby Tuesday contributes a complete collection of Suzette Hadin Elgin,
>putting books on both the fiction and non-fiction shelves. "Although
>in RL I only own the Ozark trilogy -- which keeps getting borrowed and
>not returned! -- and _The Judas Rose_ and _Yonder Comes the Other End
>of Time_."
"You have wonderful taste in books. Although I don't believe I've read
the Ozark trilogy. The Native tongue books are the only ones I've actually
been able to find."
Evaine @-->-->---
--
Lisa Reeves - ad...@detroit.freenet.org
"Fabric addiction is cheaper than a shrink"
@--->--->----
Joseph Knecht
: and, finally, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
: Wilson
aha!
: She places these boks upon the shelves, standing on tiptoe to reach the
: higher shelves. Then, brushing her long hair back from her eyes in what
: seems to be a habitual gesture, she moves over to the bar. "I don't
: suppose you have any Jasmine tea here?" she asks, rummaging through her
: seemingly bottomless backpack looking for her wallet....
: ******************************************************************************
: "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet * Rebecca Leanne Schoenberg
: are of imagination all compact." * ban...@ties.org
: - Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" * Leah Anne of Bellemont
: *****************************************************************************
allow me...i know i've got a buck here somewhere...ah, here we go.
now then, what's your pleasure?
dave
Sanford E. Walke IV
: Kristin A. Ruhle:
: >bottomless pit of a tote bag and brings out another book: _To the Stars_
: >by George Takei. "I haven't really gotten started on this one yet," she
: >says. "Is he less of an asshole than Shatner?"
: Ruby Tuesday offers her a copy of George Takei's _Mirror Friend, Mirror
: Foe_. "Going by this, I think he's real good," she says.
Is that the fencing one?
Sidhe Who Must be Obeyed
: : and, finally, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
: : Wilson
: aha!
Can I assume that you're a fellow Illuminated One, then? I just finished
reading the series, and my head is still reeling. Not to mention the
numbers 5 and 23 seem to keep appearing everywhere now....:)
: : She places these boks upon the shelves, standing on tiptoe to reach the
: : higher shelves. Then, brushing her long hair back from her eyes in what
: : seems to be a habitual gesture, she moves over to the bar. "I don't
: : suppose you have any Jasmine tea here?" she asks, rummaging through her
: : seemingly bottomless backpack looking for her wallet....
: allow me...i know i've got a buck here somewhere...ah, here we go.
Thank you!
: now then, what's your pleasure?
Jasmine tea, if they've got it. If not, then peppermint tea....
--
P. Morwood / D. Duane
verse by Wagner for THE RING, with the Arthur Rackham illustrations.
(The book I didn't steal from the Dowling College library. *sob*)
D. (breaking in the new address: the usual one: ddu...@owlsprings.win-uk.net:
the Web page: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls
graham yeates
"Well, I won't need it as much as others will." He seems to
be speaking only to himself. Out of his navy blue overcoat he takes a
loved and well-read copy of "Blemyahs". Placing it on the shelf, he
takes a step or two back towards the bar.
"Sir," he says speaking to Mike in a with a softness that
belies the man's appearance. "A drink of Southern Comfort, if you
please." He puts his money on the bar's surface. He....well to be
honest, I walk and toe the line by the Fire place.
"A toast!" I tried my best to sound clear, for these were new
people for me. "To Books! Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read." I hoped the crashing
glasses were thrown for me...and not at me.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Graham A. Yeates
A monkey asked to speak to me about this script for "Hamlet" he had written.
Email address: gye...@chat.carleton.ca
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graham yeates
> He grins at Yog (with no teeth showing), and for good measure, tosses a copy
> of "Spaceballs" into the video library.
> "I loved the part in Spaceballs where the bad guys peeked ahead of themselves
> (fast forwarded the tape of the movie they were in) to see where the good guys
> had escaped to.
Watch, or re-watch, The Muppet Movie. They invented the gag.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Graham A. Yeates
.........Ahhh...A bear in its natural enviroment, a Studebaker.........
Email address: gye...@chat.carleton.ca
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Jim M. Pierce
in it about 1992. I read one of those posts just last night, which is
one of the reasons I'm here [ lonliness...]. I figured on popping by for
a quick chat or two. Later, DJ.
--
Dreamy Jim aka Jim Pierce B.Sc. Disclaimer:Standard.
Video: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: 'Learning to Fly.'
The Polymath
}In article <795599...@argus.demon.co.uk>, an...@argus.demon.co.uk wrote:
}]In article <3kalbl$3...@gap.cco.caltech.edu> lyd...@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU "Speaker-to-Minerals" writes:
}]
}]>="I expect a relatively high proportion of Callahan's patrons qualify for
}]>=Mensa.
}]>
}]>Well, perhaps. But most of us have the good taste not to join. I'll stick
}]>with my membership in Tau Beta Pi.
I'm not familiar with Tau Beta Pi (I am a member of Psi Chi, though). In
what way(s) are they more tasteful than Mensa? (I'll caution you about
that "most of us." I doubt you've any idea how many Mensans read this
group).
}]Personally I rate my "Dennis the Menace" club membership more highly
}]than that of Mensa.
Must be a fun club. What are their parties like? How many books have
they donated to worthy causes?
}Just ask yourself. Why would Wilt Chamberlain join a club for tall
}people. (insert basketball appropriate to your generation)
(A) He already belongs to a club for tall people, though it has other
requirements as well.
(B) For the same reasons other tall people join such clubs.
The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: holl...@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp "Learning about the U.S. from the popular
3100 Ocean Park Blvd. media is like learning about plumbing by
Santa Monica, CA 90405 sitting in a cesspool." -- Michael Phelps
Mark A Mandel
paperbacks. One has a library sticker on the back. "Whoops, better
clone that one!" He twoddles a Burroughs gadget and a second one
appears, without the library sticker; he puts that with the two
non-library books and finds shelf space for the set. "Jo Clayton's Skeen
trilogy: Skeen's Leap, Skeen's Return, and Skeen's Quest... or is it
Skeen's Search?" Peers at the books on the shelf. "Nemmind. I found
the first one at my favorite used-book shop (Bearly Read Books, Rte. 20,
Sudbury, Mass.), DEVOURED it, and went back for the rest. No luck!
Finally found the third someplace, maybe there, but I had to go to the
lib. for the middle one, 'cause I HAD to read them in order. And now I
still haven't read the third, becuz they just suck me in so hard... I'm
waiting for a big slab of time. Then I can come back here for it.
Meanwhile, youse guys can enjoy them too."
Christopher Wilcoxson
He grabs a 2 X 4 convently laying next to him and gives himself a good
smack in the head.
"I can't believe I forgot this one! I need to cudgel my brain more
often.
"Tesla, Man out of Time. Absolutely awesome book about an incredible
man."
Rigel
Mark Beirne Lively
for .. graham yea...@chat.carle (683)
> > "I loved the part in Spaceballs where the bad guys peeked ahead of themselves
> > (fast forwarded the tape of the movie they were in) to see where the
> good guys
> > had escaped to.
> Watch, or re-watch, The Muppet Movie. They invented the gag.
Yes, that movie was incredible. Better than the sequals.
-Bear,
"Thats a myth" Kermit
"Thats not a myth thats my wife" -Telly Sevalis
"No, MYTH MYTH MYTH" Kermit
"Yeth?" Carol Kane
Repeat the last to ad nausium throughout the movie
Liv...@cmu.edu
Gareth L Owen
jad...@netcom.com (Joseph A. Admire) wrote:
> *How To Make War*, *A Quick and Dirty Guide to War*, *Dirty Little Secrets*,
> *Shooting Blanks*, *From Shield To Storm*, *Getting It Right*, James
> Dunnigan et al.
"Hmmmm." says The Stranger from just behind Joe Admire. "I must have a look
at those some time."
He reaches up and places Sun Tzu's *The Art of War* next to them.
"I've just started reading an online copy, seems pretty solid so far,
but I'm not terribly far into it."
The Stranger
FBTanager
shyly. Her eyes light up when she spots the library, and she heads
towards it, ducking around people and things murmuring "Excuse me. Pardon
me. Sorry." barely audably. She browses patiently, reveling in old
favorites.
When she reaches the end she frowns, and whistles a snatch of tune. A
canvas bag appears on her arm, stuffed to bursting with books. She looks
around for direction, but, seeing no one in charge, looks for appropriate
places to put her books.
She adds _Masks of the Illuminati_ and _The Schrodenger's Cat Trilogy_
next to _Illumiantus!_; Mercedes Lackey's _Mage Winds Trilogy_, SERRAted
Edge books, _Knight of Ghosts and Shadows_, _Summoned to Tourney_, _The
Black Gryphon_, _The Silver Gryphon_, and _Storm Warining_; All of Judith
Tarr's books, and, for good measure, a limited edition, hand engraved,
illustrated copy of Edmund Spencer's _Fairy Queen_.
She wanders back to Charles deLint's works, and adds next to them _War
for the Oaks_ (wishing she knew the author, or could find other books by
her-Bull? something like that), _Tam Lin_ by Pamala Dean, and
_Elsewhere_.
She looks around, wondering if anyone could reccomend any other good
urban Fairie books, but can't quite get up the nerve to ask.
Singing softly under her breath, "I am what I am..." she turns
away...then turns back and adds a copy of "La Cage Aux Folles," the movie
and the music.
She looks around again, wishing she knew someone to talk to, and heads
toward the bar, hoping they have cappuccino.
Free Bard Tanager
*BEEP* The reality you have diled is out of service. Please check the
value of Pi or consult with your local Diety.