Gaslight Digest Friday, April 9 1999 Volume 01 : Number 061


In this issue:


   Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat
   Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat
   Today in History - April 6
   Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister
   Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister
   Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected (Correction)
   Spot running
   Weird Victorian science conference
   Re: Weird Victorian science conference
   Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the Sherlock 
Holmes page>
   Etext avail: Adeler's "A desparate adventure"
   Today in History - April 7
   Re: Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the 
SherlockHolmes page>
   Etext avail: more Sherlockian parodies
   <FWD> Come join us
   CHAT: Author Assistance Needed
   Raintree County website
   Today in History - April 8
   RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"
   RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"
   about those duelling dinosaurs ...
   Re: Raintree County website
   "A Desperate Adventure"
   Re: Today in History - April 8
   Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ...
   Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ...
   Re: CHAT: Author Assistance Needed

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

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:05:36 -0700
From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat

I watched the first Hornblower episode last night with
great delight.  The spirit of place and time was captured
in every scene, and the battles, considering this was
a television production, not on Titanic budget, were
well done.  I have never read the Hornblower novels,
however, if they are at all close to this televised version
they owe a great deal to Captain Frederick Marryat's
early 19th century naval fiction, down to the little speech
on equality, which could easily have sprung from the
mouth of Marryat's Midshipman Easy, better known
to his shipmates as "Equality Jack."

Luckily, Marryat's novels are currently being reissued
by both Holt's Heart of Oak series and McBooks
Press Nautical Fiction series.

An amazing coincidence occurred just last week, while
I was editing a group of British auction records from 1826 to
1829 --  I work in the Getty Provenance Index which
researches the history of collecting and the provenance
of paintings primarily during the 16th to 19th centuries --
Capt. Frederick Marryat's name appears, buying and
selling a large number of paintings!  He amassed a rather
large collection of Dutch and Italian paintings which he
then sold in 1829, just prior to taking the post on the
Ariadne.  I have unearthed and researched a good
number of startling facts during my years here, but this
was by far the most fun.  My longest search, at about ten
years now, has involved a Danish plenipotentiary, Tiepolo's
St. James, Raphael's Alba Madonna and the Peninsular
war, which marks the beginning of my interest in the
Napoleonic era.

best regards,
Patricia

Patricia A. Teter
PTeter(at)Getty.edu

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:20:55 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Hornblower sails alongside Marryat

> which marks the beginning of my interest in the Napoleonic era.


It's interesting to find a beginning.  I know that your interest in
stories, subject as been this era and I was wondering what the connection
with your work at the Getty it might have been.

Deborah

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

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:27:08 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 6

            1814
                  Granted sovereignty in the island of Elba and a pension from 
the French government,
                  Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates at Fountainebleau. He is allowed 
to keep the title of
                  emperor.
            1830
                  Joseph Smith and five others organize Mormon Church in 
Seneca, New York. Trailing
                  the Mormons.
            1862
                  Confederate forces attack General Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh, 
Tennessee.
            1865
                  At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, a third of Lee's army is cut 
off by Union troops pursuing
                  him to Appomattox.
            1903
                  French Army Nationalists are revealed for forging documents 
to guarantee a conviction
                  for Alfred Dryfus, an officer accused of giving plans for 
France's defense to Germany.
            1909
                  Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first 
men to reach the North
                  Pole.
            1917
                  The United States declares war on Germany and enters World 
War I on Allied side.

    Born on April 6
            1483
                  Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Dutch painter (Sistine Madonna)
            1866
                  Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker journalist who exposed 
city corruption in "The
                  Shame of the Cities."
            1874
                  Harry Houdini, famous magician and escape artist
            1905
                  W. Warrick Cardozo, physician and pioneer researcher on 
Sickle Cell Anemia.

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:55:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister

Like Patricia, I'm glad Stephen has "recycled" "La Tinaja Bonita," which
is one of those beautifully told stories--tragic though it is--that stays
with you (as it has with Patricia) long after you read it.

Patricia asks about other stories by Wister.  Here are some book titles
and their contents:

_Red Man and White_ (1896)

"Little Bighorn Medicine"
"Specimin Jones"
"The Serenade at Siskiyou"
"The General's Bluff"
"Salvation Gap"
"The Second Missouri Compromise"
"La Tinaja Bonita"
"A Pilgrim on the Gila"

_The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories_ (1900)

"The Jimmyjohn Boss"
"A Kinsman of Red Cloud"
"Sharon's Choice"
"Twenty Minutes for Refreshment"
"The Promised Land"
"Hank's Woman"
"Padre Ognazio"

_When West Was West_ (1928)

"Bad Medicine"
"Captain Quid"
"Once Round the Clock"
"The Right Honorable the Strawberries"
"Lone Fountain"
"Absalom and Moulting Pelican"
"Skip to My Loo"
"Little Old Scaffold"
"At the Sign of the Last Chance"

Bob C.

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Patricia Teter wrote:

>
> Stephen, thanks for resurrecting the five texts,
> three of which I never read the first time around.
> I still vividly remember Wister's "La Tinaja Bonita"
> thanks to Bob Champ.  Bob, did Wister write
> many short fiction westerns such as this?  The
> Virginian was a full length novel, but was it
> originally published in serial form?
>
> Patricia
>
>
>
>


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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity

Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy; meditate on these things
                                 Philippians 4:8

rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:21:39 -0700
From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu>
Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and Wister

Bob,  thanks for the Wister short story titles; I had
no idea he wrote that many!  Perhaps before the
year is out we should add another Wister story to
Gaslight? In the meantime, I'll save your message
and seek out copies to read.

best regards,
Patricia

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:23:40 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected (Correction)

John H. points out that I mistyped the direction to get Wister's "La tinaja
bonita" in plain ASCII.  Thanks, John.

 Here it is properly.

 To retrieve the original plain ASCII file send to:  ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA

 with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:


 open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
 cd /gaslight
 get bonita.sht


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

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:39:22 -0400
From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net>
Subject: Spot running

>The good LPA has writ:--
>
>        <<See other "Lost Worlds".  See other interpretations of the
>canonical
>stories than one done by Jeremy Brett.  See Spot Run.  See Jane run thru
>forest in "Lost World" by TNT. >>
>*****************************************************
>Lascar no see TNT "Lost World." But if Jane run through forest in
>dishabille, then me want to see Jane run, not Spot!
>
>Lascar (whose love of dogs does have limits).
>
>===============
Jane run thru forest with leafs keeping censors from heart attacks.  Other
female whatevers run thru forest with not much else.  Only excess baggage
female with expedition has more clothes.  except for the scene "Where is
madame X?"  early on.  dere ain't no leafs dere in da watter.  made this
geologist female cringe as that one looked at "minerals" in the cave.
sigh....

and dis dog do howl dat da men don't do no scenes inna watter with no
leafs.  sigh.  Discrimination!  dat's what it is!  Peter whosis as
Challenger was no prettier this week in "Hercules" as Odin.  Voice just as
bad, clothing worse.
or too much clothing, as the case may be.

I sure hope someone from the Doyle estate is making money from Ted Turner's
idiocy.  other than Jane.  Who if she were in the movie in leafs would have
escalated the movie's er, um, uh, literariess by leaps and, er, bounds.

the curly haired spaniel who only peaked at the swimming scenes as they
didn't have no naked males in them

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:10:11 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Weird Victorian science conference

Will anyone on Gaslight be attending the following conference?

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

VICTORIA Digest - 24 Feb 1999 to 25 Feb 1999


  4. Weird Science in Victorian Literature (Conference)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:31:08 +0000
From:    "Willis, Martin" <M.Willis(at)WORC.AC.UK>
Subject: Weird Science in Victorian Literature (Conference)

To All Victorianists:

UPDATE:

WEIRD SCIENCE:
ALTERNATIVE WISDOMS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE

A One Day Conference at University College Worcester
Saturday April 17 1999

The conference programme is now complete and registration is
invited. Places are limited and filling fast so please enquire for
details as soon as possible. Cost is 15 pound sterling (or 10 pounds
sterling for students) and includes all conference lectures,
registration, refreshments and lunch. Below is an illustrative list
of participants and themes:

Plenary Speakers:
CLIVE BLOOM on seances
JENNY BOURNE TAYLOR on psychology

Other papers include:
ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON    on science and sexuality
TONY PINKNEY on Morris and seances
JOHN SCHAD on darwinism
 as well as papers on the following themes:
MESMERISM
DETECTIVE FICTION
SPIRITUALISM
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
GHOSTS
HAVELOCK ELLIS
JEKYLL AND HYDE
BRAM STOKER.

All enquiries to:
Dr Martin Willis
Dept. of English and Drama
University College Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ

email: m.willis(at)worc.ac.uk.

BOOK NOW!

- ------------------------------

End of VICTORIA Digest - 24 Feb 1999 to 25 Feb 1999
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:10:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: Weird Victorian science conference

I shan't be able to attend, but if the organisers plan to publish the
proceedings I should be most interested in receiving a copy of them.
Details would be most welcome.
Peter Wood
25, Bellevue Crescent,
St. Albert, AB,
Canada, T8N 0A5

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:46:21 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the Sherlock 
Holmes page>

Patricia T. asks:

>Jerry, this is a Holmes pastiche?  What is the title of your
>excellent Brigadier Gerard pastiche and is it still on Gaslight?
>If so, may we link it to the Napoleonic page alongside
>the Doyle Brigadier Gerard?  You are certainly a worthy
>successor to ACD!

and Stephen intercedes:

     It's actually the Brigadier's grandson which is how the story takes place
during a certain private consulting detective's career.

     "The adventure of the white plume" is available on Gaslight as whitplum.sht
or on the website at whitplum.htm

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

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:50:01 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Adeler's "A desparate adventure"

From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 04/06/99 07:50 PM


To:   Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject:  Etext avail: Adeler's "A desparate adventure"

          despadvt.sht
     This week we'll discuss an old etext on Gaslight, "A desparate adventure"
(year?) by Max Adeler.  Can anyone date this story?

 To retrieve the plain ASCII file send to:  ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA

 with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:

 open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
 cd /gaslight
 get despadvt.sht

 or visit the Gaslight website at:

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

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

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:38:07 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 7

            1862
                  General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of 
Shiloh, Tenn.  Over on the
                  Mississippi, Union troops take Island No. 10, Missouri.
            1914
                  British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill.

     Born on April 7
            1770
                  William Wordsworth, English poet laureate who wrote "The 
Prelude" and "Lyrical
                  Ballards."
            1837
                  John Pierpoint Morgan, U.S. businessman who owned U.S. Steel 
and International
                  Harvester.
            1859
                  Walter Camp, father of American football.
            1860
                  W.K. Kellogg, cereal magnate and health guru.
            1897
                  Walter Winchell, American newscaster and newspaper columnist.
            1915
                  Billie Holliday, jazz and blues legend who sang "God Bless 
the Child."

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:49:06 -0700
From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu>
Subject: Re: Carlson's "Adventure" pastiche <WAS: WWW etext avail: Not the 
SherlockHolmes page>

Stephen thankfully intercedes:
<<It's actually the Brigadier's grandson which is how the
story takes place during a certain private consulting
detective's career.>>

Ah, now I remember... three or four years is a long time
for a memory to retain perfect details when a million other
less important details are crowding and pushing and
overlapping and crunching everything else to bits, and
isn't odd how the most trivial stuff always takes up the
most room!  Life is cruel that way! <grin>

going out for a much needed double strength espresso,
Patricia
(but, hey!  I did remember that Raphael is Italian rather than
Dutch ... right?..........;-)

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:40:54 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: more Sherlockian parodies

From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 04/07/99 11:40 AM


To:   Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject:  Etext avail: more Sherlockian parodies

(JOLNES.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos)
O. Henry's "The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes" (1911)

(PARODY.HTM#Picklock) (Fiction, Chronos)
R.C. Lehmann's _The adventures of Picklock Holes_ (1893/94)


          jolnes.sht
     In addition to the previously released "The sleuths", O. Henry
     mocked the Holmesian style in "The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes".
     Both stories were collected in _Sixes and sevens_ (1911)


          holes01.hum
            holes04.hum
              holes05.hum
     Here are three episodes of the series from _Punch_ by R.C. Lehmann,
     called _The adventures of Picklock Holes_ in 1893/4, and, after Holmes
     had returned from the dead, _Picky back_ in 1903/04.  These are files
     first released in 1994 on Gaslight.

 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 jolnes.sht
 get sleuths.sht
 get holes01.hum
 get holes04.hum
 get holes05.hum

 or visit the Gaslight website at:

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

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

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:15:33 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: <FWD> Come join us

- ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 04/07/99
12:15 PM ---------------------------

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:45:14 -0500
From: MyShelf <myshelf(at)marlownet.net>
Subject: Come join us

We have a historical mystery list going at Onelist.com.  Come join the
readers and authors already there.

It's a fun list with lots of opinions and reading influences.

ENDEARING....BEWITCHING!   EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE CORPSE, SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD
TIME... ON CRIME THRU TIME AT ONELIST."

http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/CrimeThruTime    use this url to join.

Thought you might be interested.
Back to lurking.

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 14:21:27 -0500
From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU>
Subject: CHAT: Author Assistance Needed

Hello, Everyone!
Can anyone help me track down information on the nonGaslight author
Michael de Larrabeiti? He wrote THE BORRIBLES science fiction novels,
and my personal favorite book THE PROVENCAL TALES. But, information
about this author is hard to come by. Anyone know why? He using a
pseudonym that causes the problems? I would like to find out how to
contact the man, if possible. Standard library reference sources like
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS have zilch.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks.

Richard King
rking(at)indian.vinu.edu

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:48:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Raintree County website

Don't know if there are any fans of _Raintree County_ on the list, but
I thought I would mention that a new website devoted to the novel and
its author, Ross Lockridge, Jr., has now appeared.  _Raintree County_,
made into a rather mediocre film starring Elizabeth Taylor, was the
attempt of a young man, Lockridge, to write the "Great American Novel." It
takes place on a single day in the 1890s, and tries to get in everything
about America from that vantage point (thus the frequent comparison
between Lockridge and Thomas Wolfe).  The book was an enormous success
when it appeared, but the pressure became too much for the 33-year-old
author who, very soon after it appeared, took his own life.  (There is
an interesting essay at the site by Lockridge's son Larry about his search
for the roots of his father's final act.

The URL for the website is

http://www.raintreecounty.com

If you'd like to read something about the book, its general plan, themes,
and characters you can start by visiting the following.

http://www.raintreecounty.com./charlee.html

Bob C.
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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity

Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
                                 Philippians 4:8

rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:46:03 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 8

            1832
                   Some 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry leave Jefferson 
Barracks, St. Louis, to
                   confront the Sauk Indians in what would become known as the 
Black Hawk War.  [This
                   was the war, BTW,  in which Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson 
Davis led troops on the same
                   side - Lincoln as a captain of militia, Davis as a 
lieutenant of Regulars.  I'd say they fought
                   on the same side, but by Lincoln's own report all of his 
battles were with the mosquitoes.
                   I've probably fought those mosquitoes' descendants - Black 
Hawk and I were born only
                   about 5 miles and 194 years apart.  I always found it 
interesting, actually, that Black Hawk,
                   Napoleon, Wellington, and Andrew Jackson were all born that 
same year.]
            1864
                   In the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, Federals are routed 
by Confederate Gen.
                   Richard Taylor.
            1865
                   General Robert E. Lee's retreat is cut off near Appomattox 
Court House.
            1898
                   British General Horatio Kitchner defeats the Khalifa, leader 
of the dervishes in Sudan,
                   at the Battle of Atbara.
            1913
                   The Seventeenth amendment is ratified, requiring direct 
election of senators.

     Born on April 8
            1893
                   Mary Pickford, silent film actress who starred in such films 
as Poor Little Rich Girl.

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:10:52 -0400
From: Joyce Stowell <jstowell(at)smcvt.edu>
Subject: RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"

Stephen,  could you please send me a copy of this?  Thanks.
Joyce Stowell
jstowell(at)smcvt.edu


> ----------
> From:  sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA[SMTP:sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]
> Reply To:  gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Sent:  Monday, March 29, 1999 2:36 PM
> To:  gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Subject:  Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"
>
> We talked recently about Jacques Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666", but I
> couldn't produce an etext of it because a) I haven't a copy of the
> original
> publication and b) I have had very little opportunity to scan this year so
> far.
>
> I have produced a workable etext of the story which I am prepared to
> circulate
> offlist to anyone who writes me asking for it.
>
>                                     Stephen
>                           mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
>
>

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:39:37 -0400
From: Joyce Stowell <jstowell(at)smcvt.edu>
Subject: RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"

OOPS--sorry for sending this to the list.

> ----------
> From:  Joyce Stowell[SMTP:jstowell(at)smcvt.edu]
> Reply To:  gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Sent:  Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:10 AM
> To:  'gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA'
> Subject:  RE: Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"
>
> Stephen,  could you please send me a copy of this?  Thanks.
> Joyce Stowell
> jstowell(at)smcvt.edu
>
>
> > ----------
> > From:  sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA[SMTP:sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]
> > Reply To:  gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> > Sent:  Monday, March 29, 1999 2:36 PM
> > To:  gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> > Subject:  Etext avail offlist: Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666"
> >
> > We talked recently about Jacques Futrelle's "Mystery of Room 666", but I
> > couldn't produce an etext of it because a) I haven't a copy of the
> > original
> > publication and b) I have had very little opportunity to scan this year
> so
> > far.
> >
> > I have produced a workable etext of the story which I am prepared to
> > circulate
> > offlist to anyone who writes me asking for it.
> >
> >                                     Stephen
> >                           mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
> >
> >
>

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:02:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peter E. Blau" <pblau(at)dgs.dgsys.com>
Subject: about those duelling dinosaurs ...

To clear up some of the confusion about the various versions of "Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's The Lost World":

The first version with this title premiered on The Movie Network in Canada
on Jan. 4 (the 93-minute film was produced in Canada and is set Mongolia in
1934); it was directed by Bob Keen and starred Patrick Bergin as Professor
Challenger.

The second version (same title) premiered on DirecTV on Feb. 1 (produced by
John Landis in Australia for the Action Adventure Network and set in South
America); it was directed by Richard Franklin and starred Peter McCauley as
Challenger.  This is the film (two hours including commercials) that prem-
iered on TNT cable on Apr. 3, announced in TV Guide and some newspapers as
the Patrick Bergin version.  And this is the version that ends with all of
the explorers alive and well and marooned on the plateau; a spin-off series
of twenty one-hour televisions shows has been announced to debut on DirecTV
in July and available for syndication this fall.

And there was a report last year that Brian Blessed was working on a third
version for the BBC, but this likely was no more than industry buzz.

It's really difficult to make a dinosaur film now, since Steven Spielberg
has set a standard difficult to match; neither of the new films begins to
do justice to Conan Doyle's story, and the actors aren't up to what story
there is, and the dinosaurs aren't much better than the actors.  The real
problem, perhaps, is that producers don't understand, and thus ignore, the
humor in Conan Doyle's tale.


|| Peter E. Blau <pblau(at)dgs.dgsys.com> ||
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:51:26 -0500
From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Raintree County website

Thanks, Bob. RAINTREE COUNTY was one of my favorite books when I was a college
student back in the 1970s at Indiana University, in Bloomington, where the
author of the novel lived (he  had already died when I was there, of course).
I was once in his home, in fact. I wonder if Lockridge's work would still grip
me today like it did then? I think I'll investigate that site this evening.

Richard King
rking(at)indian.vinu.edu

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:38:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: "A Desperate Adventure"

A fairy tale for adults, perhaps?  Get a group of depressives together,
send them on a peaceful balloon trip, don't charge them anything, and
voila! everything in their lives changes.  Just what they needed--not
therapy but a bit of fresh air. (Not that the author knew anything about
"group therapy"--which is too bad since his tale could then be read as
satire.)

A balloon trip does seem to have an effect, though, even in the real
world. Put two or more people in a small, enclosed space for an indefinite
length of time and they're usually at each other's throat within a very
short length of time.  Yet if they are in a balloon, gliding along,
another element is engaged. Think of the recent attempts of balloonists
to circumnavigate the world.  Fossett and Branson, for instance.  Don't
you imagine those two have egos you would need a mack truck to carry?
But being aloft seems to have shrunk  them to normal size.  Maybe the
situation just calls for a dependence that will not brook ego-posturing.

Is this terribly outside the bounds of our tale?

"A Desperate Adventure" is the second story we've read lately that offers
us a tongue-in-cheek author, the other being the tale of Lake Lametrie.
At least Adeler had the sense to be brief.  This is the kind of work
that, once the central idea is grasped, won't bear much sustaining.  I
mean ter say, you can't keep an idea like this afloat, once it has been
spotted.  Entertaining stuff, though.

Bob C.

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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:42:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com>
Subject: Re: Today in History - April 8

Greetings,

 In Today in History it was written:


>            1832
>                   Some 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry leave
>Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to
>                   confront the Sauk Indians in what would become known as
>the Black Hawk War.  [This
>                   was the war, BTW,  in which Abraham Lincoln and
>Jefferson Davis led troops on the same
>                   side - Lincoln as a captain of militia, Davis as a
>lieutenant of Regulars.  I'd say they fought
>                   on the same side, but by Lincoln's own report all of
>his battles were with the mosquitoes.
>                   I've probably fought those mosquitoes' descendants -
>Black Hawk and I were born only
>                   about 5 miles and 194 years apart.  I always found it
>interesting, actually, that Black Hawk,
>                   Napoleon, Wellington, and Andrew Jackson were all born
>that same year.]


 I recall an amusing story that Lincoln told on himself -- something
he always seemed to do. He and his men approached a long fence, with a
small gate the only entrance to a pasture on the other side. He couldn't
remember the command to get his men into a file to proceed through the
gate, so -- thinking fast -- he ordered them all to disperse (or whatever
THAT command is) and reform on the other side. There is something mordantly
funny (if you didn't laugh, you'd cry) about the fact that the Commander in
Chief in, arguably, America's greatest war, was unable to command men in
the field.

Best,

Donna Goldthwaite
dgold(at)javanet.com

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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:32:09 -0400
From: Connie Hirsch <Connie_Hirsch(at)HMCO.COM>
Subject: Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ...

Thanks for the explanation -- I wondered how TVGuide and all that could have
been so wrong about who starred, et cetera.

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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:55:39 -0600 (MDT)
From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: about those duelling dinosaurs ...

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Connie Hirsch wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation -- I wondered how TVGuide and all that could have
> been so wrong about who starred, et cetera.

I suspect that much of the typesetting for "TV Guide" is done using
cut-and-paste from an existing database of films and previously-shown
programs to save time and effort in preparation of each issue. I've
noticed before that quite often film-titles are correct, but the actual
film screened is a different version, sometimes old, sometimes new (OK,
"sometimes borrowed, sometimes blue" is also appropriate).
Peter Wood

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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:25:44 -0400
From: Connie Hirsch <Connie_Hirsch(at)HMCO.COM>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Author Assistance Needed

You might try looking him up in _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_ edited by John
Clute and John Grant, which tries to be reasonably inclusive about all major
authors in the fantasy genre.  I know some people who wrote entries for it, so
I've heard how they tried to get background on more obscure authors.  Good luck!

- -connie.
connie_hirsch(at)hmco.com

<<<<<<
Hello, Everyone!
Can anyone help me track down information on the nonGaslight author
Michael de Larrabeiti? He wrote THE BORRIBLES science fiction novels,
and my personal favorite book THE PROVENCAL TALES. But, information
about this author is hard to come by. Anyone know why? He using a
pseudonym that causes the problems? I would like to find out how to
contact the man, if possible. Standard library reference sources like
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS have zilch.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks.

Richard King
rking(at)indian.vinu.edu

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