In this issue:
Ex Libris
Re: Ex Libris
RE: chat: instant books
Re: Ex Libris
Re: chat: instant books
Re: Ex Libris
Today in History - November 9
Re: Today in History - November 9
today in history
Today in History - November 10
Re: Today in History - November 10
Re: Ex Libris
Mary Braddon website
Chat: question on Conan Doyle
Re: Chat: question on Conan Doyle
Re: Ex Libris
Re: Chat: question on Conan Doyle
CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
chat: Mickey!!
Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: Chat: question on Conan Doyle
Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Poem query
M.R. James' "Twelve Medievalghost-stories"
Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
WWW etext avail: Edward Streeter's _Dere Mable: love letters of a rookie_
Etext avail: Three poems on Robert Gregory by W.B. Yeats
Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Re: M.R. James' "Twelve Medievalghost-stories"
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:45:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Ex Libris
Last night on C-SPAN I saw the charming writer Anne Fadiman talking
about her new book, _Ex Libris_. This work is an expanded version of her
_Civilization_ magazine articles (_Civilization_ is from the LOC),
and deals with her love of reading and books. Turns out that she
is a devotee, as I am, of used books--books that have been loved, as
she said. She also mentioned that there were sites online where you
could buy used books. Someone has probably posted the URLs of such
sites before--perhaps I've just forgotten or misplaced them; but
I can't remember hearing of these sites. Anybody know one or two?
Bob C.
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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
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.
--Czeslaw Milosz
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 12:02:49 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Ex Libris >Someone has probably posted the URLs of such >sites before--perhaps I've just forgotten or misplaced them; but >I can't remember hearing of these sites. Anybody know one or two? Biblios http://www.bibliofind.com/ Interloch http://www.interloc.com/ ABE Books http://www.abebooks.com/ These are all excellent. I tend to favor Biblios because of their readouts and they seem to have a better selection (personally, for the odd books I look for). Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:08:51 -0600 From: Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net> 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 So each entered the forest at a point that he, himself, had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. ~La Queste del Saint Graal - -----Original Message----- From: owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of p.h.wood Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 12:41 PM To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Re: chat: instant books
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:39:42 -0600 (CST)
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Ex Libris
At 01:45 PM 11/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Last night on C-SPAN I saw the charming writer Anne Fadiman talking
>about her new book, _Ex Libris_. This work is an expanded version of her
>_Civilization_ magazine articles (_Civilization_ is from the LOC),
>and deals with her love of reading and books. Turns out that she
>is a devotee, as I am, of used books--books that have been loved, as
>she said. She also mentioned that there were sites online where you
>could buy used books. Someone has probably posted the URLs of such
>sites before--perhaps I've just forgotten or misplaced them; but
>I can't remember hearing of these sites. Anybody know one or two?
>
>Bob C.
>
Try www.bibliofind.com
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan(at)ionet.net
Mundus Vult Decipi
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 11:06:07 -0800
From: Robert Birchard <bbirchard(at)earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: chat: instant books
In response to Peter Woods, I share some of your concerns; but as
the process was described on the TV interview, I'm not certain that
instant books are intended to make bookstores as we know them obsolete.
Rather, if a chain like Border's orders 300 copies of a book--the
printer could dash off 300 only and ship them within a couple of days,
thus eliminating the need for warehouse space. Or if there was a one
copy order it could be made up and shipped the next day.
My fear is that this is another opportunity for the writer to get
screwed. Without the incentive of a palletful of books taking up
warehouse space the big publishers will make even less effort to promote
their marginal titles than they currently do (which isn't much). So the
books will be printed as ordered--maybe for years into the future, but
the income to the writer will be spread out to the point that writing
becomes even less economically viable than it is now.
On the other hand, the prospact of not having to print 2,000 to
5,000 copies of a book that has margianl appeal may make publishers take
a second look at such properties.
- --
Bob Birchard
bbirchard(at)earthlink.net
http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/Guest/birchard.htm
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 15:27:34 -0600 From: Marsha Valance <tributefarm(at)MIXCOM.COM> Subject: Re: Ex Libris Bob, there's <www.bibliofind.com> and the book store junkies listserv, which can be subscribed to from <www.lizst.com> just to cite two. Good luck! Marsha in Milwaukee - ---------- > From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Ex Libris > Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 12:45 PM > > Last night on C-SPAN I saw the charming writer Anne Fadiman talking > about her new book, _Ex Libris_. This work is an expanded version of her > _Civilization_ magazine articles (_Civilization_ is from the LOC), > and deals with her love of reading and books. Turns out that she > is a devotee, as I am, of used books--books that have been loved, as > she said. She also mentioned that there were sites online where you > could buy used books. Someone has probably posted the URLs of such > sites before--perhaps I've just forgotten or misplaced them; but > I can't remember hearing of these sites. Anybody know one or two? > > Bob C. > > > _________________________________________________ > (at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at) > > Robert L. Champ > rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu > 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. > --Czeslaw Milosz > _________________________________________________ > (at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at) > >
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 09:54:36 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - November 9
1799
Napoleon Bonaparte participates in a coup and declares himself
dictator of France.
1848
The first U.S. Post Office in California opens in San Francisco
at Clay and Pike streets. At
that time there were only about 15,000 European settlers living
in the state.
1900
Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria.
1906
President Theodore Roosevelt leaves Washington D.C. for a 17
day trip to Panama and
Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official
visit outside of the U.S.
1910
France, Spain, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Russia, and Great
Britain establish diplomatic
relations with the new republic of Portugal.
1918
Germany is proclaimed a republic as the Kaiser abdicates and
flees to the Netherlands.
Born on November 9
1841
Edward VII, King of England.
1918
Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's vice president.
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 17:50:06 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History - November 9 born 1833 - Salley Louise Tompkins, commissioned a captain of the cavalry in the Confederate Army by Jefferson Davis. He hospital in Richmond was so expert that out of 1333 admissions there were only 73 deaths. smiling, phoebe
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:03:35 -0600
From: Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net>
Subject: today in history
Sometime in the early 1870's in the foggy mystic isle ("These
English are mad about mysticism--it's like those fogs they have
over there. It makes them think of their country: and melts their
heart in sighs the day they have said farewell to their
sweet friends." ): Dorian Gray is born.
With heart,
Deborah Mattingly Conner
muse(at)iland.net
http://www.iland.net/~muse
So each entered the forest at a point that he, himself, had
chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. ~La Queste
del Saint Graal
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:42:54 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - November 10
1871
Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe
in Africa.
1879
Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught
window-peeping at the daughter of
his commanding officer--an offense for which he will be
court-martialed.
1911
President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.
1911
The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking.
1917
Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the
White House.
Born on November 10
1882
Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member--Secretary of Labor.
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:07:46 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History - November 10 born 1830 - Emily Dickinson Also, interestingly, born in 1856, Mabel Loomis Todd, Emily's first editor and the founer of the AMherst Historical Society. phoebe
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:55:22 -0500 (CDT) From: MEDS002(at)UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU Subject: Re: Ex Libris Regarding online used book sites...I'm slowly building a listing of links to electronic/new/used and other bk sites on the WWW...see the results at: http://www.anes.uab.edu/book.htm ...suggestions for additions welcome...aj wright
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:59:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Willis <c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Mary Braddon website Hi! For anyone who's interestied, there's now a Mary Braddon website at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3783/braddon.html All the best Chris - ---------------------- Chris Willis (Ms) English Department Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Departments/English/pages/~cwillis/ tel: 0171 631 6743 e-mail: c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:18:43 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: question on Conan Doyle I couldn't remember the title and I've been unable to get on the web due to router problems in my city--so can someone help with this question: >In the movie _Fairy Tale_ they mention a book on Fairies written by A. >Conan Doyle. Do you know of one? Is this a fallacy? Thanks for any input. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:29:54 -0800 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Chat: question on Conan Doyle Deborah asks: <<>In the movie _Fairy Tale_ they mention a book on Fairies written by A. >Conan Doyle. Do you know of one? Is this a fallacy?>> Three titles come to mind on this subject: _The Evidence for Fairies_ (New York: Doran, 1921) _The Coming of the Fairies_ (London, New York & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922; New York: Doran, 1922) _The Case for Spirit Photography_ (London: Hutchinson, 1922; New York: Doran, 1923) Patricia
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:48:25 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: Re: Ex Libris Here's mine at the top of my reference page at http://rking.vinu.edu/ref.htm Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu MEDS002(at)UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU wrote: > Regarding online used book sites...I'm slowly building a listing of links > to > electronic/new/used and other bk sites on the WWW...see the results at: > > http://www.anes.uab.edu/book.htm > > ...suggestions for additions welcome...aj wright
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:35:42 -0500
From: Doug Wrigglesworth <dougwrig(at)NETROVER.COM>
Subject: Re: Chat: question on Conan Doyle
At 12:18 PM 10/11/1998 -0700, Deborah McMillion wrote:
>>In the movie _Fairy Tale_ they mention a book on Fairies written by A.
>>Conan Doyle. Do you know of one? Is this a fallacy?
>
"The Coming of the Fairies" (1921) includes the materials which first
appeared in the two articles written by ACD for the Strand Magazine, along
with additional material, I believe.
A later paperback reprint was issued in 1972 by Samuel Weiser Inc.
The following notes are from the Green & Gibson Bibliography of ACD:
The first three Cottingley fairy photographs were taken in July and
September 1917 by two girls, Elsie Wright (who appears in the
article as Iris Carpenter) and her cousin Frances Griffiths (Alice).
The author first heard of their existence in May 1920. They had been
sent to E. L. Gardner, who had shown them at the end of a lantern-
slide lecture at the Mortemer Halls. Although they had no bearing on
survival after death, Conan Doyle was interested and hoped to use
them as illustrations for an article on fairy lore which he had
promised Greenhough Smith. When he received prints in June, his
interest increased. He made contact with Gardner, read his account
of a visit to Cottingley, and studied an the available evidence. The
two men decided to write an article to replace the one by Conan
Doyle. A contract was arranged with the Strand Magazine and it duly
appeared in the December issue. The article created a considerable
stir and the magazine was sold out after three days.
The author left for Australia soon after the article was
finished. "I feel as if it were a delay-action mine which had left
behind me" (The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, p. 30). He and Gardner
had agreed to make no mention of the photographs until after the
article had appeared. In August a further series of photographs were
taken. These were used to illustrate the original article which
appeared in March 1921.
After the book was published, the Cape Argus carried an article
on the subject which brought to light a letter from Elsie Wright on
the fairies. As the letter had been written some years before there
was any publicity, Conan Doyle felt it was important. He sent a
brief account of it to the Strand Magazine and the editor included
it on the half-title of the February 1923 issue.
In the next few years there were more developments and further
photographs from other sources. The author considered writing a
further article `The Fairies Again', but decided instead to reissue
the book from his own Psychic Press. He added the new preface and
Florizel von Router's article.
Conan Doyle laid himself open to ridicule by his apparent
gullibility. He was not alone. E. L. Gardner in Fairies. The
Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel (London: The Theosophical
Publishing House, 1945) remained convinced, as no contrary evidence
had been forthcoming. Geoffrey Hodson, who had supplied the
descriptive notes on fairies, published the material in a volume
caged Fairies at Work and at Play. This dealt with the `real life of
Brownies and Elves, Gnomes, Mannikins, Undines, and Sea Spirits,
Fairies, Sylphs, and Angels'.
Conan Doyle was not prepared to question the integrity of the two
girls; other people, including Houdini, did so. The most damaging
suggestion on the origin of the fairies was that published in the
Star on 20 December 1921. This was a statement by a representative
of the candle makers Price and Sons that the fairies were identical
with the drawings used to advertise their night lights.
To the end of his life, Conan Doyle was convinced that the
photographs were genuine. Of all the objections, which he considered
in Our African Winter (p. 119), `The one which merits most attention
is that they are cleverly cut-out figures which have been held up by
invisible threads.'
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Doug Wrigglesworth
16 Sunset Street, Holland Landing, ON L9N 1H4
(905) 836-1858 FAX (905) 836-0464
dougwrig(at)netrover.com
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:10:05 -0500
From: "Kevin J. Clement" <clementk(at)alink.com>
Subject: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
Welp, I'm using my old notebook to write this email, as my power went
out about half an hour ago. I'll be using this opportunity (sorry for any
spelling mistakes; little light to see by) to read some stories from a
Algernon Blackwood collection of ghost stories and a M.R. James book. I'll
try reading by candles and lamps. The wind is still blowing quite strong
outside and while the rain's subsided a bit, it's still raining hard enough.
Since I live outside of the main village I probably won't have power until
tommorow am, especially with other power outages in the area. Might be too
scary for reading Shirley Jackson, though I'll try that as well.
I'll let you know if I survive reading. ^_^ I can still email or browse
until my battery runs out or use the phone, but that's pretty much it, as
it'll be dark in about a half hour. (except try to read a bit) Well, I'd
better go feed the dog before it gets any darker out. Hope the rest of you
are doing ok today as this seems like one of the first big storms of the
season. (little early from what I hear; and about the same type of storm
that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald if you know about that)
Electric power's ok, but it's a major problem when it goes out.
Kevin Clement
clementk(at)alink.com
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:49:33 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight where are you Kevin! geographically, I mean. those lines of storms are heading towards Pennslyvania at a rapid rate and I'm a candle hording idiot with matches next to them nut from living in Cecil County Maryland with little electric abilities. don't scare us like this! <G> and give us the reading list after the lights come on, do! Linda Anderson At 05:10 PM 11/10/1998 -0500, you wrote: > Welp, I'm using my old notebook to write this email, as my power went >out about half an hour ago.
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:35:13 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: chat: Mickey!! that's not Micky mouse, that's Mickey, the Boss Sauce King! that used to post sillyness and lovely thoughts on Gaslight. I asked Stephen a while back where in heck is Mickey and no one knew. Well, I just got my latest catalog of Char-Broil BBQ stuff and Mickey it there(at)! the Boss Sauce has his famous (hey I loved the stuff and ordered tons) sauces of Buffalo Whiz Primo Beer BBQ Sauce, (the sauce with a head on it), Redneck Whisky Wing Sauce and Chicken Depilatory (ya gotta try this one!), Bad Byron's Butt Rub BBQ Baste, and my all time favorite bought by the case load Roadkill BBQ Sauce. and extra jar of Bone-Suckin Sauce is added to the mix. all these are available for only $30 from Char-Broil, www.grilllovers.com or (800)252-8248 and ask for Mickey's Redneck Sauce Kit (17990030). and it's gaslight- just eat some and light up! <G> Linda Anderson
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:38:29 -0500
From: JDS Books <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
I believe Kevin said some time ago that he lived East of
Columbus, Ohio, but his last [?] missive could have been extracted
from a Lovecraft story [...power fading...must check on the dog one last
time before its too dark....oh, oh, the dark wings of black
fire!!!!!!......]
From Shadow haunted Kettering, Ohio
John Squires
- -----Original Message-----
From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net>
To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
>where are you Kevin! geographically, I mean. those lines of storms are
>heading towards Pennslyvania at a rapid rate and I'm a candle hording idiot
>with matches next to them nut from living in Cecil County Maryland with
>little electric abilities.
>
>don't scare us like this! <G> and give us the reading list after the
>lights come on, do!
>
>Linda Anderson
>
>
>
>
>At 05:10 PM 11/10/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>> Welp, I'm using my old notebook to write this email, as my power went
>>out about half an hour ago.
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:44:15 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight Columbus is indeed in the middle of a winter hurricane mess at the moment. I seem to remember Ohio state sometime, too. icky! type to us, Kevin! anyone else from South Dakota (now closed to the outside world even more than before) and Minnesota (I 90 is gone under 16 foot drifts)... Linda At 06:38 PM 11/10/1998 -0500, you wrote: > I believe Kevin said some time ago that he lived East of >Columbus, Ohio, but his last [?] missive could have been extracted >from a Lovecraft story [...power fading...must check on the dog one last >time before its too dark....oh, oh, the dark wings of black >fire!!!!!!......] >>From Shadow haunted Kettering, Ohio >John Squires
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:31:50 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Chat: question on Conan Doyle Thanks to Patricia and Doug for so much great information, my friend is thrilled. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:38:21 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight > ....oh, oh, the dark wings of black fire!!!!!!..... >From Shadow haunted Kettering, Ohio THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK...darn, there's another favorite Lovecraft story!! And now I feel like re-reading it (and Bloch's sequel THE SHADOW OF THE STEEPLE!!) Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:00:35 -0800 From: Alan Gullette <alang(at)creative.net> Subject: Poem query This may or may not be Gaslight era, but I thought someone on the list might be able to answer this person's question: Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:26:16 -0800 From: anne walkosky <annew(at)nisa.net> Reply-To: annew(at)nisa.net Subject: The first moss rose. My mother has asked me to try to find the words of a poem that she used to recite in school in England around l915. (She was born in Cornwall England in 1908.) She is not sure of either the title nor the author but says that the following is in the poem. One night an angel visitor who on the earth had strayed Grew weary as he wandered within the woodland glade He loved the silent stillness -------- The rest of the story tells of how the angel fell asleep and the moss went underneath him to give him a comfortable bed and a thorn bush spread itself over him to protect him. When the angel awoke and seen what they had done for him he was very pleased and said from this day forward the moss will grow on the thorn bush and created the first moss rose. Thanks on behalf of the sender...
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:32:02 -0700 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: M.R. James' "Twelve Medievalghost-stories" I found a reference today to M.R. James' article in the _English historical review_, called "Twelve Medieval ghost-stories_ (1922). Does anyone know if this has been etexted elsewhere on the WWW? There seems to have been a sequel article by H.E.D. Blakiston called "Two more Medieval ghost-stories" (1923). Would anyone know Blakiston's bio-dates? I could easily etext this as well if the author is in Canadian Public Domain. Stephen mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:12:43 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight We're expecting the storm in Massachusetts tomorrow... I love reading by candlelight. Just glad it isn't here tonight. Would have missed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. lightly, phoebe
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:23:33 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight OOh, and missed buff Giles chasing Buffy's mom! dig that low class Brit accent! yummy! <G> Linda Anderson At 09:12 PM 11/10/1998 -0500, you wrote: >We're expecting the storm in Massachusetts tomorrow... > >I love reading by candlelight. Just glad it isn't here tonight. Would have >missed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. > >lightly, >phoebe > >
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:30:56 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight In a message dated 11/11/98 2:24:32 AM, Linda wrote: <<OOh, and missed buff Giles chasing Buffy's mom! dig that low class Brit accent! yummy! <G> Linda Anderson >> Cool. phoebe
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:54:48 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight oh yes- way, way kewl. At 09:30 PM 11/10/1998 -0500, you wrote: > >In a message dated 11/11/98 2:24:32 AM, Linda wrote: > ><<OOh, and missed buff Giles chasing Buffy's mom! dig that low class Brit >accent! yummy! <G> > >Linda Anderson >>> > >Cool. > >phoebe > >
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:57:18 -0500
From: "Kevin J. Clement" <clementk(at)alink.com>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
> I believe Kevin said some time ago that he lived East of
>Columbus, Ohio, but his last [?] missive could have been extracted
>from a Lovecraft story [...power fading...must check on the dog one last
>time before its too dark....oh, oh, the dark wings of black
>fire!!!!!!......]
>From Shadow haunted Kettering, Ohio
>John Squires
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net>
>To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA <gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA>
>Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 5:36 PM
>Subject: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight
>
>
>>where are you Kevin! geographically, I mean. those lines of storms are
>>heading towards Pennslyvania at a rapid rate and I'm a candle hording idiot
>>with matches next to them nut from living in Cecil County Maryland with
>>little electric abilities.
>>
>>don't scare us like this! <G> and give us the reading list after the
>>lights come on, do!
>>
>>Linda Anderson
The three-lobed burning eye! Ia Ia! (smack; Down Azagthoth, down girl;
that's a good doggie, here's a treat for you)
Power is still out though I haven't made many frantic calls to the power
company like a certain Robert Blake did as I know it won't get the power on
any faster. The wind is still quite spooky and loud outside though until
about 9:30 the sound of a generator from a neighbor across the street
somewhat spoiled the effect...
I'm about 20 minutes east of Columbus and about a mile west of haunted
Granville proper. I live in a valley with a good amount of trees that nobody
trims right until the power goes out next to powerlines. Good thing there
weren't any tornadoes and it's about a month too early for real snow. We
lost power for about a whole week one year in the middle of winter with
snow/ice at least 5 inches when I was younger and sick at the same time.
That was terrible. This was almost fun.
Spent most of the evening reading all of M.R. James Ghost Stories of an
Antiquary (except for 'Oh Whistle...' which I'd read off of Gaslight), and
then The Haunter of the Dark (really good with the power off and about 5
candles and a gas lamp going around you; it got worse when I had to blow 4
candles out so I wouldn't get wax on the table). I finished up with 2
chapters in The Haunting of Hill House which I've just begun recently.
Would've liked to have read more but I was running out of lamp fuel and it's
getting late.
Not having read more than 2 M.R. James Stories before (Oh Whistle...and
Count Magnus) I've found I really like his stories and wouldn't mind reading
more. Like his attention to architectural detail and good sense of plot
spiced with tidbits of history. His academic characters are amusing. The
Haunting of Hill House I'm already convinced is much better than the movie.
The houses Eleanor meets on her drive to Hill House are a great way to start
the story moving and frame her character. I wouldn't mind living or visiting
some of those houses or walking amongst the oleander trees. Didn't want to
read much further and not be able to sleep.
It was a nice change to read by candle/gas light. Very soothing light
and half the candles and the lamp oil were scented. I admit I cheated a
little bit as I used a cig lighter instead of matches and used a flashlight
to move from room to room so I wouldn't set the carpet on fire. ^_^
Kevin Clement
clementk(at)alink.com
- - who's not going downstairs to check *any* sounds tonight after reading too
many ghost stories.
Actually my dog is a nice old mutt named Lady who doesn't attack anything
but fleas.
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:31:05 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: WWW etext avail: Edward Streeter's _Dere Mable: love letters of a
rookie_
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7227/derex1.htm) (Fiction, Chronos)
Edward Streeter's _Dere Mable: love letters of a rookie_ (1918)
When Edward Streeter went off to the Great War, he left behind
him a manuscript that became a runaway bestseller, and which,
since Streeter returned unscathed, engendered three sequels.
In remembrance of the plucky attitude which so many doughboys
displayed, we've begun a serialization of the "Bill's" letters
at the Gaslight Stateside website.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7227
Stephen
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:44:30 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Three poems on Robert Gregory by W.B. Yeats
(3xYEATS.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos)
William Butler Yeats' three poems on Robert Gregory (1919)
3xyeats.pom
Lady Gregory, patroness of W.B. Yeats, lost her son in
the last year of the Great War. Yeats commemorated
Robert in three poems, published in _Wild Swans at
Coole_ (1919).
It is now available on the website and as an ASCII etext
thru FTPmail.
To retrieve the plain ASCII file with admittedly skewed centering,
send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get 3xyeats.pom
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/3xyeats.htm
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:26:00 -0500 (EST) From: ex875(at)CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU (Lila P. Bess) Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: Reading by Candlelight Well, Gang, The storm rattled Cleveland, Ohio and is gone but we didn't lose power! I would opt for reading by firelight if we did. The wind got so strong that I thought we would lose our big oak! Beryl - -- p
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:32:43 -0800 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: M.R. James' "Twelve Medievalghost-stories" Stephen asks: <<There seems to have been a sequel article by H.E.D. Blakiston called "Two more Medieval ghost-stories" (1923). Would anyone know Blakiston's bio-dates? >> Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston's dates: 1862-1942 Patricia ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #19 *****************************