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442	http://www.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/index.html...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 3, 2001 7:59 pm
443	Rough version of an article on southern post Civil War poet, Sidney Lanier. ====================================================================== SIDNEY...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Feb 4, 2001 8:03 am
444	Apropos of the Lanier post by Byron, here's something that might interest: http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/southlit.html There's a fair amount of well-done...	Tim Virkkala houyhnhnm@...	Feb 4, 2001 7:27 pm
445	The doc site from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to which Tim introduces us is the one I cited: "[Footnote 8: The Ballad of Trees and the Master...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Feb 4, 2001 11:42 pm
446	Ancient near-East poetry does not depend on rhyming and regular rhythm and their repetition to have a poetic effect. And so, we are told, are easier to ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 10, 2001 6:15 am
447	http://www.bartleby.com/187/13.html...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 10, 2001 5:02 pm
448	http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rand/ A glimpse into alternate universes where Ayn Rand's books are all 400 pages shorter....	Eric D. Dixon eric@...	Feb 13, 2001 3:04 pm
449	William Tyndale had a profound effect on the English-speaking world: http://www.WilliamTyndale.com/0page1a.htm A good writer. A reasonable translator. And...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 13, 2001 4:58 pm
450	This is mostly about writing. Live from Golgotha...well, I didn't care for. I found it embarrassingly bad. Heavy handed, and just not very funny. For me. I...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Feb 15, 2001 4:39 pm
451	Since the parting moment has moved on, I'll move it another square. * Not game vs reality, but manipulated reality vs reality, non reality vs reality, in a...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Feb 15, 2001 7:18 pm
452	This seems right: Nabokov maintained a very exalted notion, in moral-political terms, of his profession. He was amazed by literature: "This capacity to...	Tim Virkkala houyhnhnm@...	Feb 16, 2001 2:53 am
453	It's a peculiar essay, with a Nabokov admirer griping about aesthetes - of which Nabokov is the prime example! - but the passage I quoted interested me. It...	Gene houyhnhnm@...	Feb 16, 2001 3:52 am
454	... By the way, "Gene" is I. Why Yahoo/eGroups ascribed the name Gene to me is utterly bewildering. (I posted this one the Web, from work last night.) -- ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 16, 2001 4:40 pm
455	That last message did leave me puzzled as to its provenance. Thanks for the link, "Gene," on Nabokov. Serendipitously, I recently read the Vidal article...	Pete Collins petec@...	Feb 16, 2001 6:14 pm
456	I just finished the 1976 novel "A God Against the Gods," by Allen Drury. It tells the tale of Akhenaten and his family, the last rulers of the 18th Dynasty of...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 25, 2001 5:23 am
457	There was recently a brief discussion in one of these groups of "The Egyptian." (Waltari.) I read this as a teenager, and at least once since then. I really...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Feb 25, 2001 5:57 am
458	Oh well. ... Aten loves me, that I know 'Cause Akhenaten tells me so He is odd and he is fat But he knows just where it's at. Yes, Aten loves me, Yes, Aten...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Feb 25, 2001 8:22 am
459	Hi Byron... ... Waltari named his narrator "Sinuhe," who is the author of a real life ancient Egyptian bestselling papyrus about his travels in Canaan. ... ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Feb 25, 2001 6:00 pm
460	... I would have guessed, "Have you got something for a headache?" -- Jon Kalb Kalb@......	Jon Kalb kalb@...	Feb 25, 2001 6:26 pm
461	Presciently, it was said last night that the new budget will include a cut in the government department that monitors earthquakes. * I am content to point out...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Mar 1, 2001 2:46 am
462	Couldn't find my little cat Keeler when I got home. Searched for 20 minutes before finding him crouched under my bed. He never goes under my bed. He usually...	James Gill jamesgil@...	Mar 1, 2001 2:51 am
463	On a travel series I watch, (Rick Steve's), there's a wonderfully daffy and funny scene in one of them--I forget whether the locale is a wonderfully old...	Byron Marshall bmarsh@...	Mar 2, 2001 1:14 am
464	I have been particularly impressed by the wide travels of the Peruvian bands. Yes, I've seen them all over Europe. In Amsterdam last summer I also saw a...	Gochfeli@...	Mar 2, 2001 4:23 am
465	Hello, I'm sending this notice out to let you know that I'm about to close my accessone email account. Please use the following email address to contact me in...	James Gill jamesgil@...	Mar 4, 2001 5:36 am
466	Greetings, This is not a comment on any film, book, or idea. This is a message to participants in my three lists, Film Flam, Reading Matters, and ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Mar 14, 2001 6:04 am
467	http://rabbit.trin.cam.ac.uk/~jon/Sraffa/Sraffa10.html...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Mar 16, 2001 5:33 am
468	There's an amusing article in Salon, today, about a Finnegan's Wake Reading Group. Ah, memories! I hosted such a group, once upon a time... ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Mar 17, 2001 7:13 pm
469	I've never much liked Frank Pape, who illustrated most of Cabell's books. But this one (which I can't afford), looks quite good: ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Mar 18, 2001 4:37 am
470	I've never been to an sf convention. But this one looked interesting, with especially fascinating discussions and arguments about modernism: ...	Timothy Virkkala virkkala@...	Mar 18, 2001 5:34 am
471	http://www.hour25.org/ The above looks pretty interesting Already I've found a 1 hour PKD interview. JIm...	James Gill jamesgil@...	Mar 18, 2001 11:43 pm

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