Thanks for forwarding my request. I checked the message board and it turns out that it is actually a reprint of the 1991/1995 edition, which I already own. I...
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lakowskir
Feb 5, 2007 10:04 pm
Try looking at the entry for "Oyarsa" in Wikipedia, which suggests that it is derived via Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia ultimately from the Greek...
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Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
Feb 5, 2007 10:14 pm
Thanks, I didn't have a chance to Wiki it before referring it to the list! A Greek origin would make more sense for Lewis. ...
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Merlin DeTardo
not_thou
Feb 5, 2007 10:29 pm
How funny: having this friend in common with David, I checked wikipedia last week about the origin of "Oyarsa", and found nothing; the "source of name" section...
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Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
Feb 5, 2007 10:52 pm
Ah, interesting that the entry was apparently altered within a day or two. One of the advantages of Wikis is that they can updated quickly. Yet there are...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Feb 5, 2007 11:03 pm
Check the last chapter of OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET, where 'Ransom' writes to CSL himself for more information about Bernardus Silvestris' use of the word...
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Jeremy Edmonds
rownsepyk
Feb 5, 2007 11:08 pm
The Tolkien Wiki you mention was last updated in May of 2006, and doesn't seem all that active. You might also try http://www.tolkiengateway.net - it was ...
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lakowskir
Feb 6, 2007 6:43 am
I found the "source" for the Wikipedia entry. Walter Hooper in C.S. Lewis Companion and Guide (207-08) quotes the relevant passage from Bernardus Silvestris in...
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Elizabeth Hardy
britomart3
Feb 6, 2007 4:07 pm
Hi Jason, I submitted two proposals. One was a paper I presented at the Witching Hour in 2005, and the other was a paper I had been planning to present at the...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
Feb 6, 2007 4:38 pm
... Well, I don't see why you shouldn't reach out and ping John Briggs / Craig Svonkin about it. ... Not sure whom they've talked to, but McFarland is...
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jef.murray
Feb 7, 2007 4:25 pm
Epiphanies ========= You've probably experienced times like this. You go along, engrossed in everyday affairs, when a friend mentions something, anything: an ...
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Hugh Davis
falstaffhhd
Feb 7, 2007 6:29 pm
I have a question for this learned group. In David Constantine's translation of Faust, Part I, Mephistopheles refers to "being fitted tightly in Scotch boots"...
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jack@...
jack_greenma...
Feb 7, 2007 6:45 pm
“All your empirics could never do the like cure upon the gout as the rack in England or your Scotch boots.”—Marston: The Malcontent._ [Non-text portions...
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Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
Feb 7, 2007 6:55 pm
Goethe's line is "In spanische Stiefeln eingeschnürt," the Spanish boots used in torture. The Scotchcast boot today is a fiberglass boot used in the...
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Debra Murphy
dlmurphy601
Feb 7, 2007 7:33 pm
My son sent me these YouTube links, from Ricky Gervais' EXTRAS program, and I thought many of you would get as much a howl out of them as I did. First, there's...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Feb 7, 2007 11:13 pm
Cf. the OED, under BOOTS: "An instrument of torture formerly used in Scotland to extort confessions from prisoners", a meaning they trace back to 1513. --JDR...
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sundstromlinda
Feb 8, 2007 12:19 am
I've also seen Mirrormask - and it is truly unusual. A sort of imagined LSD trip without the drugs. But Pan's Labyrinth is brutal in intensity. Even the...
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sundstromlinda
Feb 8, 2007 12:34 am
I have the red leatherish copy of The Lord of the Rings in its case - second edition/collector's edition - copyright 1965 that I bought at a library bookstore...
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Jonathan Michael Reiter
atomtetsuwan...
Feb 8, 2007 3:21 am
Say, Linda, How much did you say you wanted for the book again? I might be interested... Jonathan Michael Reiter jmr ... From: sundstromlinda To:...
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Elizabeth Hardy
britomart3
Feb 9, 2007 8:35 pm
I just got the flyer for this conference. It sounds wonderful! C.S. Lewis: The Man and his Work, a 21st Century Legacy, October 26-27, 2007. Call for papers...
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sundstromlinda
Feb 14, 2007 6:43 pm
Plus actual shipping to you - media mail is cheapest, but am open to whatever. Linda...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Feb 17, 2007 5:46 am
Happened to catch a snippet of the House debate on the non-binding resolution today, and tickled to see that one Rep. Mike Pence (Republican of Indiana) quoted...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
Feb 17, 2007 4:54 pm
I just did a Google on "Mike Pence," "C. S. Lewis," and "resolution," and I found the following news story: ...
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kim4fsu
Feb 17, 2007 6:09 pm
... and "resolution," and I ... DocumentID=58224_ ... DocumentID=58224) ... the form of ... The one ... that it's in the ... it in the ... difference editions?...
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Michael Cunningham
swordblade2001
Feb 22, 2007 11:03 am
I thought I would bring the following to your attention as it may be of interest. Thanks, Michael. On Behalf Of Cornelius Holtorf After the great feedback we...
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Joe R. Christopher
jchristopher@...
Feb 23, 2007 2:26 am
Not really in reply to Michael Cunningham on invented civilizations--but a question. I have come upon a reference to Groznia in three radio plays plotted by...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Feb 23, 2007 8:05 am
Sounds to me like Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, which is not exactly on the Black Sea, but is only about 300 miles away. It's the same word that in "Ivan...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
Feb 23, 2007 2:47 pm
Could it be a reference to "The Inspector General"? I can't find the lyrics online, but isn't there a song called something like "Praise to Grozny (to the...
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ecrowews
Feb 26, 2007 8:30 pm
Janet Alvarez of the Tolkien Society (UK) asks our help on this query they received. If you have any good recommendations you can contact the inquirer directy...
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Bianca Iano
b_h_i_davis
Mar 1, 2007 4:04 am
Hello all, Can anyone here tell me where I can find a Persian language translation of JRRT's Fellowship (please, no Hobbit). Ever optimistic, Bianca Iano...
