Gaslight Digest Tuesday, December 1 1998 Volume 01 : Number 023


In this issue:


   Re: gaslight reception problems (fwd)
   Dueling (Was: RE: Sub?)
   Thankful
   OT: Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
   You're not alone
   RE: "A Romance of Leichhardt"
   RE: gaslight reception problems (fwd)
   WW1 Literature
   Re: gaslight reception problems (fwd)
   1126A
   Etext avail: Fitzgerald's _Studies in Australian crime_
   Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"
   Re: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"
   Re: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"
   Re: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"
   RE: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"
   RE: chat: instant books
   Etext avail: Fitzgerald's _Studies in Australian crime_
   Re: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous
   RE: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous
   Toni's tribute (WAS: RE: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous)
   RE: Huts & Wedding Stuff
   Re: Toni's tribute (WAS: RE: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous)
   An interesting Poetry site
   An interesting Poetry site -Reply
   Wilde Statue
   1130A
   Re: 1130A
   Re:  Re: 1130A

-----------------------------THE POSTS-----------------------------

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 22:01:31 -0700 (MST)
From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: gaslight reception problems (fwd)

Dear Stephen,
Phoebe and I have been having an off-line discussion of reception
difficulties with Gaslight. I think my last message to her may be of
interest to you.
This problem may be linked to the difficulties Edmonton Freenet has been
having with its newsreader (TIN 2.1 v4, I believe), which seem to have
started with some person or persons unknown trying to cause a breakdown in
the whole system by massively overloading the INternet with multi-gigabyte
binary files; something similar is occurring on various newsgroups with
the delivering sending of garbage messages under forged addresses. I
suppose there are people and organisations who may have an interest in
crashing the Internet; I don't know. all I *do* know is that I, and
possibly others, have not been receiving all the Gaslight postings for
some time, it would appear.
Sent FYI.
Best wishes,
Peter
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:38:10 -0700 (MST)
From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
To: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: Re: gaslight

Dear Phoebe,
I've just performed the interesting experiment of calling up the Gaslight
webpage and checking the digests for Oct 10-Oct.27. I would say at a rough
approximation that I received anywhere between one in three to one in ten
of those postings!
In general, if I posted something myself, I received about half the
responses; the rest... who knows where they have vanished to?
So what now? Thanks for your kind offer of assistance, but I haven't any
real idea as to what to do beyond forwarding a copy of this to Stephen
FHI.
Best wishes,
Peter

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:49:45 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: Dueling (Was: RE: Sub?)

> > But I'm ********d if I'll accept even mild chastisement for a justified
> >>complaint about no fault of my own. Sorry, Deborah, but those are my
> >feelings.
>
> I guess I would have to ask why have suffered through this situation for a
> year, Peter?  What is it about your server, mail that is being so
> selective
> (and will he even get this message?)--are you alone in this?

Pistols From a Final Duel Are Sold for $34,500
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AN FRANCISCO -- The pistols used in California's last public gun duel, a
fatal 1859 "affair of honor" between a United States senator and a state
Supreme Court justice, were sold for $34,500 at auction on Tuesday.

The two Belgian .58-caliber pistols were used in the shoot-out between
Senator David C. Broderick, who was killed, and Judge David S. Terry.

The cased single-shot pistol set, including a copper powder flask, loading
rod and mallet, was bought at a Butterfield & Butterfield auction by an
unidentified private collector.

The Sept. 13, 1859, Broderick-Terry duel, which all but ended public gun
duels nationwide, stemmed from the political frustrations of both men, two
Democrats, each at opposite ends of the party's political spectrum.

Slavery lay at the root of the disagreement. Senator Broderick, long a
champion of the working class, opposed it; Judge Terry supported it. After
the judge, who allied himself with the pro-South "Chivalry" wing of the
California Democratic Party, roundly denounced the anti-slavery wing, the
Senator called him a "miserable wretch." Judge Terry, an expert shot, then
issued a challenge.

The two met near the San Francisco-San Mateo County line at Lake Merced,
where a golf course is now situated.

History says that the guns were on loan from an associate of Judge Terry and
that Senator Broderick's weapon was set up with a hair trigger, which would
cause the pistol to fire early from the lightest touch.

"That did bring up a little consternation at the time," said Greg Martin,
the director of arms and armor at Butterfield.

"Dueling was banned in California after that," Martin said. "It was one of
the last duels fought in America."

When the Civil War broke out, Judge Terry abandoned politics for a military
career. He joined the Confederate Army and rose to the rank of brigadier
general. He later retired to Stockton, Calif.

He was shot to death in 1889 by the bodyguard of Justice Stephen Field of
the United States Supreme Court after apparently attacking the Justice at a
train station in Lathrop, Calif.

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:35:19 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: Thankful

Down here in the U.S. we're celebrating Thanksgiving, a holiday at which we
kill and eat the fowl Benj. Franklin proposed as the national bird.

As I prepare to make dinner for my dad and me, my thoughts turn to our
recently discussed subject, Napoleon. For, if memory serves, he had
something to do with the invention of canned food. When it's dinner for two
bachelors, canned cranberry sauce, gravy and mincemeat pie filling are de
rigeur, as Nappy might have said.

Me, I'm thankful to have an ISP again and be back on Gaslight from my new
home in Florida.

Cheers,

Jim

- ---------------------------------
James E. Kearman -- Travel Counselor
All About Travel -- West Palm Beach, Florida
561-966-9614  --  800-327-8785
mailto:jkearman(at)gate.net
http://www.gate.net/~jkearman

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:46:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: OT: Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I thought Gaslighters might interested in the following brief
account, taken from a webpage, of the history of Thanksgiving.
Note that, without the fine work of a woman of our period and
a decision of Mr. Lincoln, we would not now be celebrating this
day.

Have a happy Thanksgiving--and don't stuff yourself! <g>

Bob C.

> The Pilgrims' 1621
>               Thanksgiving
>
>
>
> The tradition of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving is steeped in myth
> and legend.  Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate
> Thanksgiving the next year, or any year thereafter, though some of
> their descendants later made a "Forefather's Day" that usually
> occurred on December 21 or 22.  Several Presidents, including
> George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays.  In
> 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobbying several Presidents
> for the instatement of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her
> lobbying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally
> made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation.
>
> Today, our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November.  This
> was set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 (approved by
> Congress in 1941), who changed it from Abraham Lincoln's
> designation as the last Thursday in November (which could
> occasionally end up being the fifth Thursday and hence too close to
> Christmas for businesses).  But the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving
> began at some unknown date between September 21 and
> November 9, most likely in very early October.  The date of
> Thanksgiving was probably set by Lincoln to somewhat correlate
> with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod, which occurred
> on November 21, 1620 (by our modern Gregorian calendar--it
> was November 11 to the Pilgrims who used the Julian calendar).
>
> There are only two contemporary accounts of the 1621
> Thanksgiving:  First is Edward Winslow's account, which he wrote
> in a letter dated December 12, 1621.  The complete letter was first
> published in 1622, and is chapter 6 of Mourt's Relation: A Journal
> of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
>
>
>  Our corn [i.e. wheat] did prove well, and God be praised, we
>  had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley
>  indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for
>  we feared they were too late sown.  They came up very well,
>  and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom.
>   Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on
>  fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice
>  together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors.  They
>  four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help
>  beside, served the company almost a week.  At which time,
>  amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of
>  the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their
>  greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for
>  three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and
>  killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and
>  bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others.
>   And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this
>  time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from
>  want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.
>
> The second description was written about twenty years after the
> fact by William Bradford in his History Of Plymouth Plantation.
>  Bradford's History was rediscovered in 1854 after having been
> taken by British looters during the Revolutionary War.  Its
> discovery prompted a greater American interest in the history of the
> Pilgrims, which eventually led to Lincoln's decision to make
> Thanksgiving a holiday.  It is also in this account that the
> Thanksgiving turkey tradition is founded.
>
>
>  They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and
>  to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all
>  well recovered in health and strength and had all things in
>  good plenty.  For as some were thus employed in affairs
>  abroad, others were exercising in fishing, about cod and bass
>  and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every
>  family had their portion.  All the summer there was no want;
>  and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter
>  approached, of which this place did abound when they came
>  first (but afterward decreased by degrees).  And besides
>  waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which
>  they took many, besides venison, etc.  Besides they had about
>  a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest,
>  Indian corn to that proportion.  Which made many
>  afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their
>  friends in England, which were not feigned but true reports.
>
> The following is a fairly complete list of the foods available to the
> Pilgrims during the three-day Thanksgiving harvest celebration. As
> can be seen in the above two quotations, the only foods specifically
> mentioned by the Pilgrims are: "corn" (wheat, by the Pilgrims usage
> of the word), Indian corn, barley, peas (if any where spared),
> "fowl" (Bradford says "waterfowl"), five deer, fish (namely bass and
> cod), and wild turkey.
>
> The Plimoth Plantation Museum has a nice recipe page that includes
> a number of modernized recipes to closely simulate the actual foods
> likely eaten by the Pilgrims during this harvest festival.
>
>
>     Foods Available to the Pilgrims for
>           their 1621 Thanksgiving
>
> FISH:  cod, bass, herring, shad, bluefish, and lots of eel.
>
> SEAFOOD:  clams, lobsters, mussels, and very small quantities of
> oysters
>
> BIRDS:  wild turkey, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and
> other miscellaneous waterfowl; they were also known to have
> occasionally eaten eagles (which "tasted like mutton" according to
> Winslow in 1623.)
>
> OTHER MEAT:  venison (deer), possibly some salt pork or
> chicken.
>
> GRAIN:  wheat flour, Indian corn and corn meal; barley (mainly for
> beer-making).
>
> FRUITS:  raspberries, strawberries, grapes, plums, cherries,
> blueberries, gooseberries (these would have been dried, as none
> would have been in season).
>
> VEGETABLES:  small quantity of peas, squashes (including
> pumpkins), beans
>
> NUTS:  walnuts, chestnuts, acorns, hickory nuts, ground nuts
>
> HERBS and SEASONINGS: onions, leeks, strawberry leaves,
> currants, sorrel, yarrow, carvel, brooklime, liverwort, watercress,
> and flax; from England they brought seeds and probably planted
> radishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, and cabbage.  Olive oil in small
> quantities may have been brought over, though the Pilgrims had to
> sell most of their oil and butter before sailing, in order to stay on
> budget.
>
> OTHER:  maple syrup, honey; small quantities of butter, Holland
> cheese; and eggs.
>
>       Some perhaps startling
>  omissions from the authentic
>         Thanksgiving menu
>
> Ham.  (The Pilgrims most likely did not have pigs with them).
>
> Sweet Potatoes-Potatoes-Yams.  (These had not yet been
> introduced to New England).
>
> Corn on the cob. (Indian corn was only good for making cornmeal,
> not eating on the cob).
>
> Popcorn.  (Contrary to popular folklore, popcorn was probably not
> introduced at the 1621 Thanksgiving.  Indian corn could be
> half-popped, but this did not taste good.)
>
> Cranberry sauce.  (Cranberries were available, but sugar was not.)
>
> Pumpkin Pie:  (They probably made a pumpkin pudding of sorts,
> sweetened by honey or syrup, which would be like the filling of a
> pumpkin pie, but there would be no crust or whipped topping.)
>
>
>
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity

Those who are alive receive a mandate from those
who are silent forever.  They can fulfill their
duties only by trying to reconstruct precisely
things as they were and by wresting the past
from fictions and legends.
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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:09:15 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: You're not alone

This was posted to the Vickie list:

>I seem to be getting very sporadic messages from this list, and feel like I'm
>constantly coming in at advanced stages of existing discussions: is anyone
>else having this problem? (I think it might be my server)

So, Peter, you are not alone.  Which is not a comfort.

Deborah

(Sorry, no duels here!)

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:31:53 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: RE: "A Romance of Leichhardt"

Bob Champ wrote:
>
> This story reads so factually that I am still uncertain as to whether
> the events, or something like them, did not occur.  Whatever
> the descriptions and adventures of the four men involved, in any case,
> I assume that the portrait of the Australian landscape is rendered
> accurately and that in the 1870s men would have been faced with the
> same situation as our four had they decided to journey across the
> continent.
>

With a few changes to costume, vernacular and landscape this story could be
taking place in mythical times. What the stories of knights' quests had
which this story lacks, is a spiritual angle. These men are hard-core
materialists. The creature in the lake is the closest it comes to having a
dragon, yet the questers rush on, leaving only a memorial cairn. No direct
warning to others: 'Beyond here be man-eating Nessies' or whatever. On the
other hand, at the time of his death, Langren's faith that Leichardt still
lived was stronger than that of his comrades, and his death seems to have
more or less stimulated the others to concentrate their efforts on finding
the missing explorer. What does Leichardt stand for?

It's a very manly tale, though, and serves to point out the many
similarities between the explorations of Australia and the American West. I
think the indigenous population of the former made out a little better,
though. Perhaps this was due more to their being less dependent on a
gregarious animal than on the essential goodness of the explorers.

Jim
- -------------------------------------
James E. Kearman

Why do you wander further and further?
Look! All good is here.
Only learn to seize your joy,
For joy is always near.?? --Goethe

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:30:23 -0600
From: Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net>
Subject: RE: gaslight reception problems (fwd)

Peter writes:
I've just performed the interesting experiment of calling up the
Gaslight
webpage and checking the digests for Oct 10-Oct.27. I would say
at a rough
approximation that I received anywhere between one in three to
one in ten
of those postings!>>>

I was also wondering where all of the Gaslight archives are.
They seem to skip from late June to the Fall.  Oh well.  If
anyone deserves a vacation it's Stephen.

With heart,
Deborah Mattingly Conner
muse(at)iland.net
http://www.iland.net/~muse
"The function of the orthodox community is to give the mystic his
desire."~Mansur al Hallaj

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 22:17:27 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: WW1 Literature

An article in the web-based London Times for November 10, 1998, discussed
the flood of books about WW1 now coming onto the market. The author also
mentions oral histories collected from veterans, comparing their
recollections with the face of the war presented in other literature. The
article title was "Was The Pity All In The Poetry?" If you cannot obtain a
copy from the London Times website, send me an email with 1126A in the
Subject line and a text-version copy will be sent automatically in reply.

Cheers,

Jim

- -------------------------------------
James E. Kearman
mailto:jkearman(at)gate.et
www.gate.net/~jkearman

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 20:27:57 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: gaslight reception problems (fwd)

Peter,
     too bad that we've abandoned the numbering systerm for our posts.  I
think the digests are numbered tho; would you like to receive a copy of
those every few days as a back up?
                                  Stephen

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 22:51:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: 1126A

In a message dated 11/27/98 3:19:20 AM, you wrote:

<<1126A >>

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:12:00 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Fitzgerald's _Studies in Australian crime_

(AUSTRMEN.HTM) (Nonfict, Chronos)
John D. Fitzgerald's _Studies in Australian crime_ (1924)


               austrprf.non
                austrX01.non
                 austrX02.non
     Here are four non-fiction texts about Australian crime in the
     19th C. by the Hon. John D. Fitzgerald

     They are now available on the website and three as ASCII etexts
      thru FTPmail.  The fourth will become available in ASCII when
     I regain access to the AFTP server.

 To retrieve 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 austrprf.non
 get austrX01.non
 get austrX02.non

 or visit the Gaslight website at:

 http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/austrmen.htm

                                 Stephen D
                          mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:17:43 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"

(ORCZMENU.HTM/#skinomy) (Fiction, Chronos, Scheds)
Baroness Orczy's "The Duffield peerage case" (1903)


     Since I'm having trouble with the AFTP server and in making
     plain ASCII etexts available, here's a simple, throwaway story
     for next week.  So far it is only available on the web.

     Baroness Orczy's Skin o' my Tooth was one of her more deplorable
     creations.  A slimy lawyer who only did his sleuthing to solve a
     case in his own favour.  This episode is called "The Duffield
     peerage case."

     Discussion begins on Tuesday, 98-dec-01.

 Visit the Gaslight website at:

 http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/orczmenu.htm/#skinomy

                                 Stephen D
                          mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca

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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 07:21:09 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: Re: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"

Stephen said:

>      Discussion begins on Tuesday, 98-dec-01.
>
>  Visit the Gaslight website at:
>
 http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/orczmenu.htm/#skinomy

                                 Stephen D
                          mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca


Stephen meant to type http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/skinx01.htm
Cheers,

Jim

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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:38:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com>
Subject: Re: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"

Greetings,


>Stephen said:
>
>>      Discussion begins on Tuesday, 98-dec-01.
>>
>>  Visit the Gaslight website at:
>>
> http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/orczmenu.htm/#skinomy
>
>                                 Stephen D
>                          mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca


Then Jim said:

>Stephen meant to type http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/skinx01.htm
>Cheers,


 Well, actually, erm, uh, what THEY both meant to type was:

http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/skinx04.htm

(that is, if you want the Duffield peerage case)


Best,

Donna Goldthwaite
dgold(at)javanet.com

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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:52:13 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"

Jim said I said:
>Stephen said:
>
>>      Discussion begins on Tuesday, 98-dec-01.
>>
>>  Visit the Gaslight website at:
>>
> http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/orczmenu.htm/#skinomy
>
>                                 Stephen D
>                          mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
>
>
>Stephen meant to type http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/skinx01.htm
>Cheers,
>
>Jim

     But I really meaned:

http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/orczmenu.htm#skinomy


     Sorry for my misuse of HTML anchors.

     We did discuss skinX01.htm last fall; next week's entry in the series
is acutally skinX04.htm.  I think there were only ever five parts (in
_Windsor magazine_), but I wouldn't mind being corrected on that.
                                  Stephen

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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:33:45 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: RE: Etext avail: Orczy's "Skin o' my tooth"

>
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/skinx04.htm

(that is, if you want the Duffield peerage case)

Well, it was early in the morning...

How's the weather up there?

Cheers,

J

- -----------------------------------------------------
James E. Kearman, Travel Counselor
All About Travel, West Palm Beach, Florida
561-966-9614? --? 800-327-8785
mailto:jkearman(at)gate.net
http://www.gate.net/~jkearman
?
?

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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 05:55:26 -0800
From: Jack Kolb <KOLB(at)UCLA.EDU>
Subject: RE: chat: instant books

>I think we should retitle Peter's post: "You can't tell a book by
>its cover?"   Amazon at least does let anyone write an on-line
>review, and they often include reviews from sources like
>NYTimes,etc., right on the book's listing page.  They do sell
>used books, too, but you pay a premium for them to search it up.
>There was an article a few months back on used book services on
>the internet that Jack Kolb offered to us here.  Maybe he still
>has it, or the ref might be in the Gaslight archives (if Stephen
>has had a spare moment to post them <g>.).
>
>With heart,
>Deborah Mattingly Conner
>muse(at)iland.net
>http://www.iland.net/~muse

The piece Deborah refers to--a survey and general commentary of the internet
book services--is available via email to anyone who writes to me privately.
Sorry for the delay in writing: I'm in the last throes of moving.

Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb(at)ucla.edu

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 15:46:55 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Fitzgerald's _Studies in Australian crime_

Orczy's latest entry in the Gaslight website: Skin o' my Tooth and "The
Duffield peerage case", and the next instalment of the true Austrlian crime
series "The Morinish murder" are both available now as plain ASCII files.

   My apologies to listmembers who couldn't access files from the FTP
server.  In the technical terms given me, the server blew up last week.

 To retrieve 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 skinx04.sht
 get austrX03.non


 or visit the Gaslight website at:

 http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/austrmen.htm

 and

 http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/orczmenu.htm#skinomy

                                 Stephen D
                          mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:06:50 +1000
From: Toni Johnson-Woods <t.johnsonwoods(at)mailbox.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous

Sorry I missed some of the discussion about the text but I have been on a
honeymoon...now I can address some of the interesting comments.

The sub-title "A Romance" will become clearer by the end of the story and
not because a couple fall in love.  So more on that later.

Second, I am sorry that I am so remiss in my Australian history but I
cannot yet find how "factual" this second search party it...but I suspect
not at all.

Third, I thought the cut off point I chose far more inline with cliff
hanging endings that we expect from serials -- and which rarely happened in
real serials (or at least most of the ones I have read in the  _Australian
Journal_).

Hope you are enjoying the story and the final installments will be ready in
the next few days....

Cheers
toni


Department of Contemporary Studies
University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
entjohns(at)mailbox.uq.edu.au

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 23:19:32 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: RE: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous

 Toni casually mentioned:

> Sorry I missed some of the discussion about the text but I have been on a
> honeymoon...now I can address some of the interesting comments.
>
Okay, Toni, we don't allow much slacking off on this mailing list, but we'll
make an exception just this once.

But seriously, congrats from the gassers, lurkers and ISP-challenged
included!

Jim

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:24:53 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Toni's tribute (WAS: RE: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous)

Well, I wasn't about to abuse Toni's confidence to me, but now that her
honeymoon is public, I also want to congratulate her and wish her the best
of the future.  It couldn't have happened, not that I'm asking *what*
happened, to a nicer person.
                                  Stephen

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:24:13 +1000
From: Toni Johnson-Woods <t.johnsonwoods(at)mailbox.uq.edu.au>
Subject: RE: Huts & Wedding Stuff

Thanks for your kind thoughts one and all..some of my friends enjoyed the
wedding invites which contain a list of crimes which were transportable
offences...if you are interested here is our wedding URL:
http://www.uq.edu.au/~entjohns/Invite.html
and to make you folk REALLY jealous, here's where we spent out honeymoon,
on the world's largest sand island

Second, on the honeymoon I managed to read three books by Gaboriau--any
gaslighters fans of his???  What a great writer!!  They were a gift from my
hubby--an Amercian -- who trcked them down through bibliofind.com and
carted them out here when he moved.  I can recommend him to gaslighters...


Again thanks for the wishes, cheers
toni


Department of Contemporary Studies
University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
entjohns(at)mailbox.uq.edu.au

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:40:03 -0600 (CST)
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Toni's tribute (WAS: RE: Huts of Ellerslie Miscellaneous)

At 09:24 PM 11/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, I wasn't about to abuse Toni's confidence to me, but now that her
>honeymoon is public, I also want to congratulate her and wish her the best
>of the future.

          Ditto.....that is, me too.

                 James
James Michael Rogers
jetan(at)ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:01:18 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: An interesting Poetry site

Definitely Gaslight, definitely up our strangeness alley:

http://www.inforamp.net/~ihooker/

check out the "Dairy Oeuvre".

I can say no more.

Deborah

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:54:38 -0500
From: Sam Karnick <SAMK(at)hudson.org>
Subject: An interesting Poetry site -Reply

This one's a scream, all right.  Quite delightful.  I should note that the URL 
is rather "blue" and probably would not show up on my computer at home!

Best w's,

S.T. Karnick

>>> Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> 11/30/98 11:01am >>>
Definitely Gaslight, definitely up our strangeness alley:

http://www.inforamp.net/~ihooker/

check out the "Dairy Oeuvre".

I can say no more.

Deborah

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 22:45:18 -0500
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net>
Subject: Wilde Statue

A statue commemorating Oscar Wilde was unveiled in London yesterday, on the
98th anniversary of his death. Wilde would have appreciated the resulting
flap and the tap dancing by a BBC interviewer regarding Wilde's sexual
preference.

The article is available on the 1 December edition of the London Times
online. If you can't access the site, send me email with '1130A' in the
Subject and a copy will be sent automatically.

Cheers,

Jim
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James E. Kearman
mailto:jkearman(at)gate.net
http://www.gate.net/~jkearman

Why do you wander further and further?
Look! All good is here.
Only learn to seize your joy,
For joy is always near.   --Goethe

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:20:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: 1130A

In a message dated 12/1/98 3:47:52 AM, you wrote:

<<1130A>>

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:40:59 -0700 (MST)
From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: 1130A

Eh? Can anyone elucidate, please?
Peter Wood

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 Zozie(at)aol.com wrote to Gaslight:
> In a message dated 12/1/98 3:47:52 AM, you wrote:
> <<1130A>>

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Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 07:30:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: Re:  Re: 1130A

Peter... sorry -- that was supposed to go to Jim Kearman, not the list.    I
was asking for an article by number that JIM has, not the list.  Maybe his
post is one you missed.  Sorry -- just more list confusion.  Didn't mean to
contribute to your frustration!

Apologies to all.

phoebe

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