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Whew -- finally I got back on, thanks to a new connection. I want to greet everyone listening with best wishes for 2003, whatever it may bring. Now I'm going...
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... "Whoops, guess I've been wrong all these years. I always thought Eusa was USA, what with USA AF bases in various places, the nuclear weapons attached to...
Ted Curtin
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Jan 2, 2003
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How interesting! This review was my introduction to RW and to the adult works of RH. I have always wondered where the mental image I had of the locomotive...
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Jan 2, 2003
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Am Donnerstag den, 2. Januar 2003, um 03:00, schrieb tjcurtin1 ... You're welcome, Ted. On the other hand, I think the illustration biases the perception of...
Yvonne Studer
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Jan 2, 2003
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... Me too. -=Fred=- Lonely silence, A single cicada's cry Sinking in to stone - Basho - email: fredr@......
Fred Runk
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Jan 2, 2003
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hello all- Does anyone know what happened to Pure Fiction magazine? There used to be a pretty good Hoban interview and book review here: ...
Eli Bishop
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Jan 2, 2003
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Yeah-- I hadn't seen the illustration till now (thanks, Yvonne!), & I think that train is not so girt. Maybe it's just the composition of the picture that's...
Eli Bishop <kibitz@...>
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Jan 3, 2003
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... From: Yvonne Studer To: the-kraken@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [the-kraken] Re: NYTBR illustration Am Donnerstag...
Russell Hoban
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Jan 3, 2003
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... The other day I went to the Swiss Museum of Transport and Communication in Lucerne where old locomotives and railway carriages are exhibited in a hall like...
Yvonne Studer
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Jan 3, 2003
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According to www.amazon.co.uk, there are no customer reviews of Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer. It is surely incumbent on The Kraken to rectify this situation. Sadly...
Richard Cooper
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Jan 3, 2003
2:40 pm
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Apologies if this has been mentioned before but I only just spotted it, and don't remember it being broadcast. The interview with Russ for Radio 4: ...
Mike <mike@...>
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Jan 3, 2003
2:47 pm
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I had my first look at this NYTBR illustration this morning. It didn't match the picture I had in imagination -- not enough mud and misery, and the locomotive...
Lindsay Edmunds
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Jan 3, 2003
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I don't recall hearing the interview or hearing about it either. I also can't play back the file, which upon consultation with the Microsoft website would...
Richard Cooper
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Jan 3, 2003
7:15 pm
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Just to say I finally downloaded RealPlayer OK from the site linked by the BBC and had a very enjoyable few minutes listening to the interview. Russ talks...
Richard Cooper
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Jan 3, 2003
10:53 pm
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Strange, very strange. Thanks to the link, I was listening to the BBC 4 interview regarding Bat Tattoo when Russ mentioned MR James. I am reading the...
Fred Runk
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Jan 4, 2003
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... Done. They don't show up for a few days, so maybe we've all been writing reviews and they'll all show up at once - "who ARE these people?" Anyway, I hope...
Eli Bishop <kibitz@...>
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Jan 4, 2003
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Mike-- thanks for that enjoyable bit of radio, brief though it was....
Eli Bishop <kibitz@...>
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Jan 4, 2003
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Richard and Mike, thanks for the link to the BBC interview and the hint about how to download the RealOne Player: It was really worth waiting for it; how...
Yvonne Studer
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Jan 4, 2003
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... Mine is the Wordworth Classics series, _Collected Ghost Stories_. It contains 31 tales and a final commentary by MR James, "Stories I have Tried to...
Fred Runk
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Jan 4, 2003
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... From: Fred Runk To: the-kraken@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [the-kraken] Front Row interview ... Mine is the...
Russell Hoban
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Jan 4, 2003
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I've been struck for some time that Eusa contains not only USA but also EU - which didn't exist in 1980. John Butcher. ... From: "Yvonne Studer"...
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"Stories I have Tried to Write" sounds just up my street. I could fill a book with these myself. Richard...
Richard Cooper
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Jan 5, 2003
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I could fill a book with "Stories I Have Tried to Write". Richard...
Richard Cooper
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... Ambush, cried the crowd Haikuing Russo, chuckling Stalked the Runk! So rank! - Yvo -...
Yvonne Studer
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Jan 5, 2003
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... book with these ... Chuckle...I suspect many of us could also. -=Fred=- Lonely silence, A single cicada's cry Sinking in to stone...
Fred Runk
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Jan 5, 2003
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... The ignorant argue, The talented talk, The wise are silent. -=Fred=- Lonely silence, A single cicada's cry Sinking in to stone...
Fred Runk
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I could, in fact, write a third email about "Stories I Have Tried to Write". Still, who's counting? R ... From: "Richard Cooper" <rikc420@...> To:...
Richard Cooper
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Jan 5, 2003
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Russ, The only place I could find this story in English is in 'Me'am Loez - The Torah Anthology' translated by R. Aryeh Kaplan zt"l in the portion of Vayechi...
Robert Mathieson
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Jan 5, 2003
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... This discussion inspired me to find my copy of M.R. James's "Collected Ghost Stories" and dip into it. I, too, am rereading RW, and I think the combination...
Lindsay Edmunds
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Jan 6, 2003
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... That appears to be the same edition as mine. Sorry to say there's no mystery about mine. I was looking for anything by William Hope Hodgson, and I came...
Fred Runk
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