In this issue: Re: Gaslight themesong Re: Gaslight themesong Re: Another Robert Eustace collaboration Re: Another Robert Eustace collaboration CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations RE: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations RE: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Good sequels Re: Unfinished works Re: Unfinished works Unfinished Works & Sequels Today in History -- Jan 05 Re: Today in History -- Jan 05 Etext avail: Sewell Ford's _Torchy, private sec._ OT: "The Bells" Featured on F.O.C. Darley Page Today in History -- Jan 06 <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title Ford's Torchy stories available thru FTP Re: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title Re: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title Today in History -- Jan 07 Obit: Patrick O'Brian FW: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title Re: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 08:12:12 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Gaslight themesong >This year will begin with some stories typical of when the 20th >Century was new; certainly, they will be more upbeat. Ready for new stories and a new year, Stephen. (Did we 'read' SLEEPY HOLLOW?) Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:58:03 -0600 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: Gaslight themesong Yes, what happened with the Sleepy Hollow challenge? Marta Deborah McMillion Nering wrote: > > >This year will begin with some stories typical of when the 20th > >Century was new; certainly, they will be more upbeat. > > Ready for new stories and a new year, Stephen. (Did we 'read' SLEEPY HOLLOW?) > > Deborah > > Deborah McMillion > deborah(at)gloaming.com > http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html "The Graveyards of Omaha" http://members.xoom.com/martadawes "The New Twilight Zone" http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 02:23:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Keating <keatingma(at)hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Another Robert Eustace collaboration Dear Kiwi I recently saw an ad in Mysteries by Mail catalog about a book that Dorthy outlined just before giving up and going into Christian writing, that has been finished by a modern day author. Have you seen anything about it or have you read any reviews that might help me decide if it is worth even considering. She is such a favorite of mine but I would hate to be disappointed by another authors writing. Forever, Gildersleeve >From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> >Reply-To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA >To: Gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA >Subject: Another Robert Eustace collaboration >Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 09:06:25 -0600 > >The LordPeter list is discussing The Documents in the Case >by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace. This is a MUCH >later novel, of course, but if you're a real Eustace fan, you >might join us. You can join the list at www.onelist.com. > >Kiwi > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:43:20 -0600 From: Ann Hilgeman <eahilg(at)seark.net> Subject: Re: Another Robert Eustace collaboration THRONES, DOMINATIONS by Jill Paton Walsh. It's out in paperback now. The reviews were mixed. Some people (like me) enjoyed the book thoroughly as it told "what happened to Lord Peter and Harriet after BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON." I also felt that Walsh had handled the thirties milieu well. Others hated it, and thought that Walsh had done a very bad job. Ann Hilgeman
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 09:07:28 -0600 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations The Magnificent Gildersleeve wrote: >Dear Kiwi >I recently saw an ad in Mysteries by Mail catalog about a book that Dorthy >outlined just before giving up and going into Christian writing, that has >been finished by a modern day author. Have you seen anything about it or >have you read any reviews that might help me decide if it is worth even >considering. She is such a favorite of mine but I would hate to be >disappointed by another authors writing. >Forever, >Gildersleeve I can do better than having seen a review, m'dear. Not only have I read the thing, Thrones, Dominations, started by DLS and finished by Jill Paton Walsh, but I read as much of the original manuscript as they have at Wheaton College. IMHO, Ms. Walsh blew it. She had Wimsey and other characters behave and speak uncharactertistically, and things went on that simply DIDN'T HAPPEN in 1930's fiction. If you insist on reading it, wait for a cheap used copy, i.e. from a book fair. I disliked it so much (as is obvious from my acerbity) that I will be nomail on LordPeter for the whole month of February. Kiwi
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:26:03 +0000 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations >I disliked it so much (as is obvious from my acerbity) that I >will be nomail on LordPeter for the whole month of February. Thanks for this input, too, Kiwi. I have picked up this book twice only to put it back. The Lord Peter books were an especial favorite (especially THE NINE TAILORS) that I wasn't able to quite push over on these. I'm sure if Richard weren't on holiday he could tell us how he thought the finishing up by another author of Raymond Chandler's POODLE SPRINGS sat well with the rest of Chandler's milieu, too. I find many of the sequels to be problematical, too. The sequel's to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE made me ill, the real story behind Poe's HOUSE OF USHER (MADELEINE) to be insulting and gross. Don't even want to talk about the sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND or REBECCA or WUTHERING HEIGHTS. The same author who wrote MADELEINE also has one about Mina but since the other was so grisly I wouldn't even try this one. It's as if they completely missed the point the original author set forth. And while August Derleth came up with some interesting stories--they weren't Lovecraft. Does anyone know of a particularly successful finish job or sequel? Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:57:13 -0600
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations
At 06:26 PM 1/4/00 +0000, Deborah McMillion wrote:
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>Does anyone know of a particularly successful finish job or sequel?
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>Deborah
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I plead guilty to liking Rhys's _Wide Sargasso Sea_. Pretty funny
idea, done to death nowadays as with the recent book about Ahab's wife.
James
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 18:50:13 +0000 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations >I plead guilty to liking Rhys's _Wide Sargasso Sea_. Pretty funny >idea, done to death nowadays as with the recent book about Ahab's wife. I liked the book w/o reference to JANE EYRE but not as the prequel. For some reason this guy just didn't seem like Rochester. Perhaps that is what most people should do...write their own book. But we all get so hungry for more of something so well done originally. If only authors didn't die such untimely deaths! Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 11:56:03 -0700 (MST) From: John Woolley <jwoolley(at)dna420.mcit.com> Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations Deborah asks: > Does anyone know of a particularly successful finish job or sequel? Ludovico Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_ is awfully good, and perhaps better even than the poem it "finishes", _Orlando Innamorato_ by Matteo Boiardo. Ray Bradbury, at Leigh Brackett's urgent request, finished her story "Lorelei of the Red Mist", in her style, for the pulp "Planet Stories". He was so successful, he says, that nobody can tell where Brackett leaves off and Bradbury begins; even he now has trouble remembering. As a related question, which unfinished works, in or out of our period, would we most want to see finished? I, for instance, would dearly love to read the last six cantos of _The Faery Queene_; _Sanditon_ would be an endless joy; but I'd *die* for the rest of R. L. Stevenson's _Weir of Hermiston_. Hmm. There's the stuff of a great ghost story here -- the Edinburgh antiquarian who raises the shade of Tusitala and attempts to compel him to finish _Hermiston_; an attempt, of course, that goes very, very wrong ... - -- Fr. John, wishing M. R. James had had this idea
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:23:51 -0600
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations
At 11:56 AM 1/4/00 -0700, Fr. John wrote:
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>Ray Bradbury, at Leigh Brackett's urgent request, finished her
>story "Lorelei of the Red Mist", in her style, for the pulp
>"Planet Stories". He was so successful, he says, that nobody
>can tell where Brackett leaves off and Bradbury begins; even he
>now has trouble remembering.
>
>
Brackett remembered: She even gives the exact sentence they trade on
in an introduction to an old anthology from "Planet Stories".
Not a bad story.
James
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:40:30 -0600 From: Andy Duncan <dunca012(at)bama.ua.edu> Subject: RE: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations >===== Original Message From James Rogers ===== > I plead guilty to liking Rhys's _Wide Sargasso Sea_. Pretty funny >idea, done to death nowadays as with the recent book about Ahab's wife. Here I must mention John Kessel's Nebula Award-winning novella "Another Orphan," in which a present-day Chicago commodities broker wakes up below decks on the Pequod and soon wishes he had paid closer attention to _Moby-Dick_ as an undergraduate. I highly recommend it. Of related interest is Kessel's fine short story "Gulliver at Home," which prompted Karen Joy Fowler to write her own story, "The Travails," as a sort of rebuttal. But all these are more in the realm of postmodern pastiche than ripoff "sequel," i.e. _Scarlett_. -- Andy Andy Duncan Department of English Box 870244 103 Morgan Hall University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 andrew.duncan(at)ua.edu www.angelfire.com/al/andyduncan
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 19:52:31 +0000 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations >As a related question, which unfinished works, in or out of our >period, would we most want to see finished? Hands down, I desperately want Dickens to finish THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Poe has an unfinished story that I've never started for fear of the same gnawing desire. I like the idea of the ghost story...it seems like I've read something like this about Poe, someone raised his shade to finish his story and...it went wrong? Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:49:33 -0600 From: Andy Duncan <dunca012(at)bama.ua.edu> Subject: RE: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations >===== Original Message From Deborah McMillion ===== >Does anyone know of a particularly successful finish job or sequel? _Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman_, Walter M. Miller Jr.'s long-awaited sequel to _A Canticle for Leibowitz_, was published posthumously as a collaboration with Terry Bisson, who protested the double billing, saying the manuscript was largely finished, that all he contributed was a little polishing. The cover of the trade paperback, I just noticed, credits Miller alone. I haven't read it, but the reviewers liked it and said it was very much a Miller novel. Another example would be Ralph Ellison's long-awaited _Juneteenth_, which John Callahan apparently carved from a longer unfinished manuscript, and which has garnered generally positive reviews. But Ellison and Miller aren't gaslight-era writers, of course. -- Andy Andy Duncan Department of English Box 870244 103 Morgan Hall University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 andrew.duncan(at)ua.edu www.angelfire.com/al/andyduncan
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:57:00 -0600 From: Moudry <Moudry(at)uab.edu> Subject: Re: CHAT: Thrones, Dominations At 19:52 04-01-00 +0000, Deborah McMillion wrote: >>As a related question, which unfinished works, in or out of our >>period, would we most want to see finished? > >Hands down, I desperately want Dickens to finish THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN >DROOD. Poe has an unfinished story that I've never started for fear >of the same gnawing desire. > >I like the idea of the ghost story...it seems like I've read >something like this about Poe, someone raised his shade to finish his >story and...it went wrong? > >Deborah ><snip!> "The man who collected Poe" by Robert Bloch. First published in Famous fantastic mysteries and then in quite a few anthhologies. Interestingly enough, Bloch was talked into completing a Poe fragment by then editor of Poe's Works, T.O. Mabbott, as a direct result of the short story. And now, alas, back to *lurking mode* with this beloved group.... Saturnally, Joe Moudry Technical Training Specialist & SOE WebMaster Office of Academic Computing & Technology School of Education The University of Alabama (at) Birmingham E-Mail: Moudry(at)uab.edu MaBell: (205) 975-6631 Fax: (205) 975-7494 Snail Mail: 901 13th Street South 149 EB Birmingham AL 35205 USA Master of Saturn Web (Sun Ra, the Arkestra, & Free Jazz): <http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry> Producer/Host of Classic Jazz (Armstrong -> Ayler ->)on Alabama Public Radio: WUAL 91.5FM Tuscaloosa/Birmingham WQPR 88.7FM Muscle Shoals/NW Alabama WAPR 88.3FM Selma/Montgomery/Southern Alabama
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 15:04:43 -0600 From: "Melinda J. Harrison" <jharrison3(at)mindspring.com> Subject: Good sequels Hello All! At 06:50 PM 1/4/00 +0000, you wrote: >>I plead guilty to liking Rhys's _Wide Sargasso Sea_. Pretty funny >>idea, done to death nowadays as with the recent book about Ahab's wife. Rhys's novel is considered one of the top 100 books of the century by Oxford group. I thought it was a fantastic story, but one of you commented on Rochester's character and I agree. When you read this book, it actually colors your opinion of Rochester when reading Jane Eyre. There was a good sequel from Ivanhoe. Rebecca got Ivanhoe in it. A very old book. And some others too. I didn't like the Poe sequel, but Mina was not so bad. Though I would never had taken that road on a sequel to Dracula. Frankly, I think this is a case of either you like literary characters in other novels or not. Ahab's Wife is not bad. One of the most clever is Jack Maggs by Peter Carey in which he tells the story of the criminal who supported Pip. This is a wonderful novel. I wish I had written it. <GGG> Jane
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:38:45 -0800 From: Jack Kolb <kolb(at)UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: Unfinished works >As a related question, which unfinished works, in or out of our >period, would we most want to see finished? Off the top of my head: Virgil's Aeneid, Sidney's (New) Arcadia, Spenser's Faery Queene, Keats' Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, Shelley's Triumph of Life and Defense of Poetry, Byron's Don Juan (if it could be finished--and that may apply to most of these works), and of course Edwin Drood. There are doubtless many more 19th and 20th works I'm not thinking of. One might argue that Mozart's Requiem was a pretty good instance of completion. Some Mahler fans (I'm not a great one) approve of what has been done with his 10th symphony. Jack Kolb Dept. of English, UCLA kolb(at)ucla.edu
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 19:16:43 -0600
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Unfinished works
At 04:38 PM 1/4/00 -0800,
>>As a related question, which unfinished works, in or out of our
>>period, would we most want to see finished?
Now that I think about it, the hands-down winner for me in this
dept. would have to be the A. Merritt novel _The Black Wheel_. The fragment
that Merritt completed has perhaps the best start of any Merritt book
ever....and coming from a fan like me, that's extravagant praise.
Unfortunately, the book was "completed" by Hannes Bok, who was a great
illustrator but a very uneven writer. _The Black Wheel_ was one of his off
days and he takes the story through a lot of very tiresome occult claptrap
before he finally lets go of the comatose reader. Oddly when writing on his
own ticket Bok did a reasonable job of getting the Merritt touch. No idea
how he messed this job up so badly.
James
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 20:48:41 +0001 From: Ellen Moody <Ellen2(at)JimandEllen.org> Subject: Unfinished Works & Sequels I grieve at the unfinished state of Jane Austen's novel, _The Watsons_. I am sad that her _Sanditon_ is only in a first draft state. I manage to read Edmund Spenser's _The Faerie Queene_ as if it were finished, with the Mutability Cantos becoming a lovely coda to its six books, and the pastoral book seems a fitting conclusion. I am much moved by Elizabeth Gaskell's publisher's final chapter for her _Wives and Daughters_. He commemorates her so movingly at the same time as simply suggesting evocatively how that book was intended to end. I prefer the Sidney's _Old Arcadia_ to the _New Arcadia_, and it is finished. I can cite some sequels which are masterpieces in their own right: Jean de Meun's continuation and conclusion of Guillaume de Lorris's __Le Roman de la Rose_; George Chapman's continuation and conclusion of Christopher Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_. Both make a marvelous diptych with their original: the first mocks and undercuts the idyllic allegorical nature of love in the first by its ribaldry and cynicism; the second turns the the mocking wit and cynicism of the original into the poetry of an exalted erotic vision of an ideal other. I also like very much Valerie Martin's _Mary Reilly_, a rewrite from a different perspective of the text of Robert Louis Stevenson's _Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde_. It fills in imaginatively the spaces Stevenson left open. Sequels are not just continuations; they can be retellings. I don't claim _Mary Reilly_ is a masterpiece; whether it will live, time (or 'the universal suffrage of mankind') has yet to tell us. Cheers to all, Ellen Moody
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 01:05:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Jan 05
Don't know if anyone has picked up the Today in History feature in my
absense, but here are some...
Interesting things that happened January 5th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1779 Stephen Decatur, early American naval hero
In 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
In 1876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
Events worth noting:
In 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain and France.
In 1850 The California Exchange opens.
In 1861 Alabama troops sieze both Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay.
In 1911 San Francisco has it's first air meet.
In 1914 Henry Ford announced a minimum wage of $5 for an eight hour day as
well as profit-sharing for workers.
In 1919 Gottfried Feder founds the German Workers' Party, a political party
that would later evolve into the Nazi Party.
In 1922 Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died aboard his ship.
In 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, first woman gov in
USA.
(Bob C., who has returned from his Christmas holiday mad for the tango
after seeing, for the first time, Sally Potter's wonderful film _The Tango
Lesson_ and listening to Yo-Yo Ma's CD, "The Soul of the Tango.")
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 10:41:54 -0800 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Today in History -- Jan 05 Bob C. wrote: <<(Bob C., who has returned from his Christmas holiday mad for the tango after seeing, for the first time, Sally Potter's wonderful film _The Tango Lesson_ and listening to Yo-Yo Ma's CD, "The Soul of the Tango.")>> Will this be your New Year's resolution? Learning to Tango? That's a great way to begin the year 2000! :-) Have you seen the wonderful Robert Duvall documentary on his Tango obsession? best, Patricia
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:31:39 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Sewell Ford's _Torchy, private sec._
(FORDMENU.HTM#tps) (Nonfic, Chronos)
Sewell Ford's _Torchy, private sec._ (1915)
Next week's stories for discussion will be the first
five chapters of Sewell Ford's _Torchy, private sec._
(1915). The slang is fabulous. I found reading these
stories to be highly addictive. Please make notes of
any unfamiliar phrases so we can discuss them and
annotate the text next week.
The stories belong weakly to the category of
adventure. Ford wrote a long series about Torchy.
At this point Torchy is about to be promoted from
office boy to private secretary. Torchy, so named for his flaming
red hair, is a real go-getter.
Ford had a couple of other continuing characters, but
I don't know anything about them.
Mount Royal College is still tinkering with its FTP
site, so these files are only available thru the
website for now. I hope to have them available thru
email by tomorrow.
Visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/fordmenu.htm#tps
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 20:08:53 -0500 (EST) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: OT: "The Bells" Featured on F.O.C. Darley Page www.focdarley.org EDGAR ALLAN POE was a key person in getting F.O.C. Darley "started" as an illustrator (1843). He first "recognized" the great potential that Felix had, when at age 20, Felix submitted work to him for his Philadelphia "Saturday Museum" magazine. "His art is more truthful and full of character than anything of a simular kind which we have seen ... there can be no doubt that the name of young Mr. Darley will soon rise to an enviable notoriety among artists of real genius..." ( from The Saturday Museum, Edgar Allan Poe, Editor, 1843) Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:18:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Jan 06
Interesting things that happened January 6th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator
In 1878 Carl Sandburg, poet
In 1882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
In 1883 Kahlil Gibran, philosopher
In 1911 Joey Adams (in New York City), entertainer
In 1913 Loretta Young (in Salt Lake City, UT), actress (born Gretchen
Michaela Young)
In 1914 Danny Thomas (in Deerfield, MI), entertainer (born Amos Muzyad
Jacobs (Jahoob)
Events worth noting:
In 1838 Samuel Morse made first public demonstration of telegraph.
In 1861 New York City Mayor proposes it become a free city, trading with
both the North and South.
In 1884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk and heredity pioneer, died.
In 1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th state.
In 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
In 1918 Mathematician Georg Cantor dies.
In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt dies at Sagamore Hill.
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:55:05 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title - ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 01/06/2000 10:54 AM --------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:34:48 -0500 From: Beth Stegenga <ebeths(at)mindspring.com> Subject: help finding title I am trying to remember the title of a short story by Guy de Mauspassant. In it, a man is relating the tragic death of his lover (of a cold, I believe), and how dearly he misses her. The end has quite a twist, and you realize the narrator is insane. I read it years ago in a collection of supernatural stories, and now I can't find it again. Any help greatly appreciated, Beth Stegenga ebeths(at)mindspring.com
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 12:41:33 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Ford's Torchy stories available thru FTP
The stories which I announced yesterday, for next week, are now available thru
the regular FTPing commands. These are the first nine stories from Sewell
Ford's _Torchy, private sec._ (1915) [The up call for Torchy.--Torchy makes the
Sir class.--Torchy takes a chance.--Breaking it to the boss.--Showing Gilkey the
way.--When Skeet had his day.--Getting a jolt from Westy.--Some guesses on
Ruby.--Torchy gets an inside tip.], tho only the first five are up for
discussion and slang analysis.
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get tpsX01.sht
get tpsX02.sht
get tpsX03.sht
get tpsX04.sht
get tpsX05.sht
get tpsX06.sht
get tpsX07.sht
get tpsX08.sht
get tpsX09.sht
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/fordmenu.htm#tps
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:19:39 -0500 From: Sue Buchman <s3dbuchs(at)snet.net> Subject: Re: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title - -----Original Message----- From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA <sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 12:56 PM Subject: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title >I think the story you're looking for may be Was It A Dream? Sue Buchman >---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 01/06/2000 >10:54 AM --------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:34:48 -0500 >From: Beth Stegenga <ebeths(at)mindspring.com> >Subject: help finding title > >I am trying to remember the title of a short story by Guy de Mauspassant. >In it, a man is relating the tragic death of his lover (of a cold, I >believe), and how dearly he misses her. The end has quite a twist, and you >realize the narrator is insane. I read it years ago in a collection of >supernatural stories, and now I can't find it again. > >Any help greatly appreciated, > >Beth Stegenga >ebeths(at)mindspring.com > > > >
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:49:15 -0500 From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com> Subject: Re: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title >I am trying to remember the title of a short story by Guy de Maupassant. >In it, a man is relating the tragic death of his lover (of a cold, I >believe), and how dearly he misses her. The end has quite a twist, and you >realize the narrator is insane. I read it years ago in a collection of >supernatural stories, and now I can't find it again. Beth - Good description. The story is "Was It A Dream?", and you can read an e-text of it at Project Gutenberg. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/swgem10.txt Kay Douglas _____________________ WAS IT A DREAM? (opening paragraphs) "I had loved her madly! "Why does one love? Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer. "I am going to tell you our story, for love only has one, which is always the same. I met her and loved her; that is all. And for a whole year I have lived on her tenderness, on her caresses, in her arms, in her dresses, on her words, so completely wrapped up, bound, and absorbed in everything which came from her, that I no longer cared whether it was day or night, or whether I was dead or alive, on this old earth of ours. "And then she died. How? I do not know; I no longer know anything. But one evening she came home wet, for it was raining heavily, and the next day she coughed, and she coughed for about a week, and took to her bed. What happened I do not remember now, but doctors came, wrote, and went away. Medicines were brought, and some women made her drink them. Her hands were hot, her forehead was burning, and her eyes bright and sad. When I spoke to her, she answered me, but I do not remember what we said. I have forgotten everything, everything, everything! She died, and I very well remember her slight, feeble sigh. The nurse said: 'Ah!' and I understood, I understood!
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:46:14 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Today in History -- Jan 07 Interesting things that happened January 7th: Birthdays on this date: In 1800 Millard Fillmore, noneventful 13th President (1850-1853) Events worth noting: In 1789 First national presidental election in the U.S. In 1822 First printing in Hawaii. In 1862 Romney Campaign. Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, West Virg. In 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her first cookbook. In 1929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 02:21:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Obit: Patrick O'Brian
Here, from the Times of London, is an item that will sadden many
Gaslighters, though its subject was not of our era.
Bob C
Patrick O'Brian, author of naval epic, dies
BY ROBIN YOUNG
PATRICK O'BRIAN, once described as "the best novelist you have never heard
of", has died in Ireland, aged 85.
His Aubrey-Maturin chronicles set in Nelson's navy, sold slowly when the
first book, Master and Commander, appeared in 1969, but the series went on to
win enthusiastic praise from writers with greater reputations, such as Graham
Greene and Iris Murdoch. It was only in 1991 when a New York Times reviewer
drew attention to O'Brian as one of the great unknowns that his books became
widely read.
Now he has cult status, and is the subject of numerous Internet websites, and
companion books which explain the references to arcane nautical terms in his
work. The later books were assured sales of 250,000 copies each in the US
alone, and O'Brian was feted by admirals, editors and politicians.
The 20th volume in the series, Blue at the Mizzen, appeared last year, and
saw the hero, Jack Aubrey, achieve his goal of promotion as a flag officer.
O'Brian is thought to have been working on a 21st.
O'Brian had started his writing career early, publishing his first book,
Caesar, about the offspring of a giant panda and a snow leopard, when he was
15. His second book, Beasts Royal, followed when he was 19, but after the war
he earned his living principally from translations from great French writers.
O'Brian lived in quiet seclusion in the fishing village of Collioure, near
Perpignan in southwest France. Friends said yesterday that his body had been
taken back for burial at sea.
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The real trouble with walking a long ways is that
you usually have to walk back.
Jim Harrison.
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 07:38:30 -0500 From: Beth Stegenga <ebeths(at)mindspring.com> Subject: FW: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title >Good description. The story is "Was It A Dream?", and you can read an e-text of it at Project Gutenberg. Kay, Yes, yes!! That's it. Thank you so much, and also to Sue. It's as good as I remember it. Wonder why it's not in more collections, but it seems everyone is in love with The Hand or The Horla. Personally, I think this story is much better. Beth ebeths(at)mindspring.com
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 17:17:07 +0000 From: Bob Davenport <bob(at)bobdavenport.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: <FWD> Seeking Maupassant title >---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 01/06/2000 >10:54 AM --------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:34:48 -0500 >From: Beth Stegenga <ebeths(at)mindspring.com> >Subject: help finding title > >I am trying to remember the title of a short story by Guy de Mauspassant. >In it, a man is relating the tragic death of his lover (of a cold, I >believe), and how dearly he misses her. The end has quite a twist, and you >realize the narrator is insane. I read it years ago in a collection of >supernatural stories, and now I can't find it again. > >Any help greatly appreciated, > >Beth Stegenga >ebeths(at)mindspring.com It sounds like 'The Dead Woman', which I found in 'The Novels and Tales of Guy de Maupassant XVI: Useless Beauty and Other Stories', Knopf, n.d. Bob ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #126 ******************************