In this issue: 'Old Lady Mary': A Ghost Story Today in History -- Dec 20 Re: 'Old Lady Mary': A Ghost Story Re: Today in History -- Dec 20 Re: CHAT: Curious Facts Re: Full Moon Spam Chat: Full moon, oh ye of little faith Today in History -- Dec 21 Re: Chat: Full moon, oh ye of little faith Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 A forwarded query Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 Now or Neverland Ring Out, Wild Bells Re: Ring Out, Wild Bells Re: Ring Out, Wild Bells Winter Solstice Re: Winter Solstice Winter Solstice Gaslight email commands for the holidays -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:08:03 +0001 From: Ellen Moody <Ellen2(at)JimandEllen.org> Subject: 'Old Lady Mary': A Ghost Story Dear Marta, One can find 'Old Lady Mary' in _Selected Short Stories of the Supernatural_ by Margaret Oliphant, edited by Margaret K. Gray. Edindburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985, ISBN 7073-9478-4. I believe there is a volume of ghostly or supernatural stories by Oliphant whose title begins _A Beleaguered City and ..._, but I don't know whether it has 'Old Lady Mary' to not. Ellen Moody
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:47:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Dec 20
Interesting things that happened December 20th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry
In 1819 John Geary, San Francisco's first postmaster and first mayor
In 1833 Samuel A. Mudd, doctor who gave medical aid to J. W. Booth
In 1841 Ferdinand-?douard Buisson, French educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
In 1868 Harvey S. Firestone, tiremaker
In 1881 Branch Rickey (in Stockdale, OH), baseball legend
In 1894 Sir Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
In 1895 Susanne Langer, US philosopher, educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
In 1904 Irene Dunne (in Louisville, Ky)
Events worth noting:
In 1803 Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US.
In 1812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis and Clark, dies.
In 1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and
50.
In 1850 Hawaiian post office established.
In 1860 By a vote of 169 to 0 South Carolina adopts an Ordinace of
Seccession and becomes first state to secede from the United States.
In 1864 Union Gen. Sherman continued his 'march to the sea.' Savannah, Ga.
In 1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park.
In 1880 New York's Broadway lighted by electricity, becomes known as the
"Great White Way."
In 1883 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls.
In 1892 Phineas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne.
+ Pneumatic automobile tire patented.
In 1919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with
more than 50,000 kilometers of track in US and Canada)
In 1922 Fourteen republics of Russia formed USSR.
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:41:21 -0800 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: 'Old Lady Mary': A Ghost Story Ellen: Thank you. I'm going to do a search for it, since I like Mrs. Oliphant's story. "The Open Window" was very odd to read the first time, because it didn't flow like a normal ghost story, but on second reading I liked it. Marta Ellen Moody wrote: > > Dear Marta, > > One can find 'Old Lady Mary' in _Selected Short Stories of > the Supernatural_ by Margaret Oliphant, edited by Margaret > K. Gray. Edindburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985, ISBN > 7073-9478-4. I believe there is a volume of ghostly > or supernatural stories by Oliphant whose title begins > _A Beleaguered City and ..._, but I don't know whether > it has 'Old Lady Mary' to not. > > Ellen Moody - -- Marta "The Graveyards of Omaha" http://members.xoom.com/martadawes "The New Twilight Zone" http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:34:39 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Dec 20 In a message dated 12/20/99 5:48:29 AM, rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu writes: << In 1833 Samuel A. Mudd, doctor who gave medical aid to J. W. Booth >> I've always heard this is the origin of the perjorative slang expression: Your name will be mud! (Mudd?) phoebe
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:43:59 -0600
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Curious Facts
Humph. You ARE a proper, academic researcher and pedagogue. You know
perfectly well that people learn
best by looking it up for themselves!
Besides, were I to include all the analysis given by the site,
the post would be at least 40 pages long. Not fair to everyone,
and just pointing out the untrue ones isn't enough. So,
use your own skepticism meter and look up the ones which
seem oddest to you.
I will give you ONE--the Alexander Fleming story is complete
BS.
Kiwi
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>>> Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> 12/17/99 05:39PM >>>
Kiwi sez:
> At least half of these curious "facts" have been debunked at one time or
> another by my favorite Urban Legends site, http://snopes.simplenet.com
Don't just leave it at that, Kiwi. Tell us which half. <g>.
Bob C.
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:33:24 -0500
From: "John D. Squires" <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Full Moon Spam
FYI from the Boston Globe...
Big moon myth sweeps Internet
By Alan M. MacRobert, Globe Correspondent, 12/20/1999
An astronomical urban legend racing around the country
by e-mail chain letter says that a special full moon will
supposedly illuminate the Earth on Wednesday night with a
spectacular flood of brilliance.
Headlined: ''Next full moon brightest you'll ever see!'' the
notice says that due to a rare confluence of events - a full
moon occurring on the winter solstice just as it appears at
close orbital points to the Earth and Sun - the moon will be
bigger and brighter than it's been in more than 100 years. So
bright, in fact, that we may not need headlights on if we're
driving at night.
Even the Wall Street Journal got taken in with the hype and
ran a page one story about the ''phenomenon'' last week
under the subhead: ''Big, Bright and Close to Earth. It Could
Well Play Tricks Not Seen in Many a Moon.''
Well, before you make plans to bathe in the moonglow, here
are the facts. Wednesday's full moon will look normal. You
won't see anything unusual about it unless you psych yourself
up pretty hard. But like all the best e-mail legends, this one
has kernels of truth that keep it alive and multiplying out of
control.
It is true, as the chain letter says, that the moon will be at the
perigee of its orbit: at its closest to the Earth for this month.
It is true that this perigee will be a trace closer than any of
the
moon's other monthly perigees this year.
And it is true that around this time of year, both the Earth and
moon are three percent closer to the Sun than when the Earth
is on the opposite side of its orbit in June and July.
So Wednesday's moon will indeed appear a bit bigger and
brighter than usual. But only a bit. Add up all the effects, and
this full moon turns out to be about 19 percent brighter than
average.
That's a smaller brightness boost than it sounds. The
difference would be just detectable to the human eye if you
could put an average full moon next to Wednesday's in the
sky and compare the two. Failing that, you'd need measuring
instruments. A good photographer's light meter, carefully
calibrated against an average full moon, would do the trick.
But a moon to dazzle the world? Fugeddabout it.
Of course, many people will go out Wednesday night and be
amazed at the moon's brightness. That's because the full
moon is always bright. This will likely be the first time some
people pay attention.
Another part of the letter that claims this is all happening
because this full moon coincides with the December solstice.
Solstices don't make the moon brighter or fainter (though at
this time of year the full moon does stand high in the sky
around the middle of the night, whereas a spring or summer
full moon rides lower across the sky).
The chain letter says this is the first time the moon has been
so near and bright in 133 years; ''the Lakota Sioux took
advantage of the super bright full moon and staged a
devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming
Territory,'' some letters state. The ambush actually happened
at high noon.
In fact, Roger W. Sinnott of Sky & Telescope magazine
finds that the moon was actually brighter (by a hair) on
January 15, 1930, January 4, 1912, and other dates.
The real news here is the power of the Internet to spread a
piece of random confusion. The bright-moon story originated
from the 1999 Old Farmer's Almanac, where it lay dormant all
year. Then someone paraphrased it into an e-mail (complete
with the Indian attack), added some exaggerations, and away
it flew. Two weeks ago no one seems to have heard of it.
Within a few days it was everywhere, and media outlets
around the nation were calling the magazine to ask about it.
An e-mail chain letter is a kind of computer virus, one spread
by people rather than machines. Harmless ones like this serve
a valuable function. They train people not to believe them
(since no one likes being made a fool twice). The moon myth
hurt no one and should die a quick, natural death three days
from now. Maybe it will help immunize people against more
virulent strains.
Alan M. MacRobert is an associate editor of Sky &
Telescope magazine in Cambridge (www.skypub.com).
This story ran on page C04 of the Boston Globe on 12/20/1999.
? Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:00:54 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: Full moon, oh ye of little faith >There is a contradiction in the analysis you sent (presented below): > >>"Another part of the letter that claims this is all happening because >>this full moon coincides with the December solstice. Solstices don't >>make the moon brighter or fainter" > >CONTRADICTS WITH > >>"And it is true that around this time of year, both the Earth and moon are >>three percent closer to the Sun than when the Earth is on the opposite side >>of its orbit in June and July. So Wednesday's moon will indeed appear a bit >>bigger and brighter than usual." > >These little brightness increments resulting from lunar perigee, winter >solstice, and the full moon should be noticeable. It won't cause traffic >accidents, but it should be nice (19 percent brighter? That should be >noticeable!) This comes from an atmospheric physicist friend of mine. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:47:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Dec 21
Interesting things that happened December 21st:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1804 Benjamin Disraeli (Tory), British prime minister (1868, 1874-80)
In 1874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, president of Nicaragua (1932-36)
In 1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator
In 1891 John W. McCormack (D), Speaker of the House (1962-70)
In 1909 George Ball, former undersecretary of state
In 1911 Josh Gibson, professional baseball player, the "Negro Babe Ruth"
In 1917 Heinrich Bo?ll, German writer (Group Portrait with Lady) (Nobel
'72)
In 1918 Donald Regan, White House staffer
+ Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN sec-gen (1972-81), Austrian President
Events worth noting:
+ Feast of St. Thomas the apostle
+ The Winter Solstice, shortest day of the year
+ Ursid meteor shower
In 1790 Samuel Slater opens first textile factory in US, in Rhode Island.
In 1909 University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was first to
reach the North Pole.
In 1913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World.
(BC note: This will be last one of these from me until I return from my
annual trek to the Chicago suburbs around January 3. Merry Christmas,
fellow Gaslighters! Have a great holiday--and a grand
change-of-the-Millennium.)
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 05:27:43 -0600
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Chat: Full moon, oh ye of little faith
Today's on-line edition of the NYtimes, which requires registration but
is free, has a nice little discussion of this topic in it's science section.
James
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:00:42 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 Another birthday -- Rebecca West, author, critic, born 1892. Happy holidays to all! phoebe
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:27:08 -0600 From: Ann Hilgeman <eahilg(at)seark.net> Subject: A forwarded query The following request appeared on Dorothy-L this morning. I asked James if he'd like me to see if there were any Footner aficionados on Gaslight, who could help him out. I know Footner comes at the end of our period, but maybe one of you can help. Ann Hilgeman, who once upon a time, long, long ago, wanted to be an archeologist - - >I have some scraps of a pulp fiction found under a one room schoolhouse near >Steelville, Missouri during an archaeological investigation. The plot is a >mystery with Madame Storey apparently solving a crime. I assume that this would >probably be the work of Hulbert Footner with a 1920s-1930s date. Are there any >Footner fans who might be able to identify the story and provide a date/place of >publication from less than a handful of scraps (no complete pages). I have JPG >scans of the material or could provide a snail-mail Xerox. > >Thank you for any help you may provide, > >James Harcourt, archaeologist >Missouri Department of Transportation >harcoj(at)mail.modot.state.mo.us >harcourtj(at)socketis.net >
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:43:43 -0600 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 Astronomically, the solstice does not take place this year until about 1 a.m., which would place it on 12/22. Kiwi
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:57:49 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 >Astronomically, the solstice does not take place this year until >about 1 a.m., which would place it on 12/22. 2:44 a.m. E.S.T. on 12/22 according to my astronomy calendar. So for those of us in Arizona and the west coast it occurs before midnight, therefore on the 21st. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:07:46 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Dec 21 In a message dated 12/21/99 2:46:58 PM, CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu writes: << Astronomically, the solstice does not take place this year until about 1 a.m., which would place it on 12/22. >> My friends who follow the stars say it is at 2:44 am on the 22nd. Moon will be full at 12:31. More than you need to know? Isn't that what the 'net is about? smiling, phoebe
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:17:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: Now or Neverland
Carroll asked this to be posted... sounds most interestin'.
phoebe
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NOW OR NEVERLAND: PETER PAN & THE MYTH OF ETERNAL
YOUTH. Studies in Jungian Psychology #82. (Review)
I've just finished reading Ann Yeoman's stunning
book, NOW OR NEVERLAND: PETER PAN AND THE MYTH OF
ETERNAL YOUTH (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1998, 191 pp.)
I'm going to read it again quite soon, as it is so
packed with new information and living ideas a single
reading won't do it justice. I don't know yet just
what the relationship is between the divine child and
the puer aeternus -- or Peter Pan with either -- he is
such an oddly subversive and disruptive figure,
and refuses to settle into any one archetype, but
hovers between worlds, challenging the values of
Barrie's England (still very much a part of our own
social history and psyche), but equally uncomfortable
in the Neverland to which he always escapes. He is
an enigmatic, often dark figure, related to gods
such as Mercurius, Pan, Dionysus, and an astonishing
list of others (Icarus, Prometheus, Lucifer and
Narcissus are mentioned).
I shall certainly never read PETER PAN the same
way again -- forget Mary Martin or that Disney fraud.
Forget Robin Williams too.
I was amazed to find Ann Yeoman talking in her
concluding chapter about Peter Pan and Neverland in
terms of the Internet. She's certainly the first
Jungian analyst I've found who is addressing the kinds
of problems that have been concerning me for the
past five years. Others may have done so, but I
chose to read this book because I was interested in
the puer/divine child/mother constellation, and because
Yeoman's background is in English literature and Jungian
psychology. (She teaches at the University of Toronto
and York University, and is a Zurich-trained analyst.)
There was no hint in either title or cover that she
would be saying anything about cyberspace.
Here's something to ponder from the last chapter,
as we enter the New Millennium:
"PETER PAN provides a metaphor for the unknown new:
rootless consciousness is the dis-ease of contemporary
society as it faces an uncertain future.
"The radical uncertainty of our future finds its own
metaphor in our rapidly evolving electronic technology.
In many ways, the elusive promise embodied in Peter
Pan is the promise also of cyberspace. The new electronic
era invites us to enter an indeterminate virtual realm
where, it seems, everything and anything is possible,
where we may create ourselves as we desire, where freedom
and creativity know no bounds. Yet the very metaphors
we use to describe this virtual zone are ambiguous:
Netscape, Web, Internet, Windows, Paths -- images of
boundless potential, but also metaphors for entrapment
and delusion.
"On the one hand, Internet users access a seemingly
unlimited network of information; on the other, the
value and structure of that same information must be
questioned, if one is not to run the risk of having
one's mind made up for one, as an unwitting adherent of,
to quote Derrick de Kerckhove, a 'collective, techno-
cultural morality which generates an 'average and
averaging psychology.' Who are we when flying in the
Neverland of cyberspace?"....(pp. 175-6)
That's a very important question -- one of several
raised in this stimulating and intriguing book.
And oh yes, you'll find that relevant details of
James Barrie's life and oeuvre, his connection with
the Llewelyn Davies family and with Scott of Antarctica
are all here. I grew up on Barrie -- who, like Peter
Pan, was more than a little uncanny -- and was glad to
find these familiar stories, told from a new point of
view. We're far from finished with Barrie's Peter Pan:
he may have some particular message for our time
which is both archaic and illuminating. He is no
respecter of the status quo.
Carroll Bishop (cbishop(at)interlog.com )
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Carroll Bishop is a Toronto writer. She organized
the first Jung newsgroup on the Net, and co-hosted
two Jungian lists (Temenos and Ariel-Musicalchemy).
She has a B.Ph. (University of Chicago) and an M.A.
in English Literature (Toronto).
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:26:30 -0500 (EST) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: Ring Out, Wild Bells Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife, Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweet manners, purer laws. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850. Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:57:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ring Out, Wild Bells
Thanks for the poem, Carol. This is exactly the note on which I hope to
enter the new millennium. It is perhaps harder for a man at the end of
the twentieth century to look as optimistically at the future as a man of
the nineteenth, but Tennyson does rouse the spirit of the season well and
imparts a measure of courage.
I'm surprised that a lyric of this quality hasn't been set to music.
Bob C.
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:05:18 -0500 (EST) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Ring Out, Wild Bells Dear Bob, Thanks for the kind words. http://tch.simplenet.com/htm/r/ringout.htm <A HREF="http://tch.simplenet.com/bio/c/a/calkin_jb.htm">John Baptiste Calkin< /A> http://tch.simplenet.com/bio/c/a/calkin_jb.htm It has been set to music to the tune of ."I heard the bells on Christmas Day" Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com www.focdarley.com
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:21:52 +0001 From: Ellen Moody <Ellen2(at)JimandEllen.org> Subject: Winter Solstice During supper tonight I was informed that tonight's moon is peculiarly bright. It seems that the shortest day of the year coincides with a night in which the moon is particularly close to the earth, and the earth particularly close to the sun. As I looked out from my window, the light of the moon did seem to echo the white lights (in the form of a row of snowflakes) from our Winter Solstice tree So I went out into my yard and observed the full moon. I can report that from a point in Northern Virginia it looks to my (poor) eyes very bright. So in honour of this infrequent mix of occurrences, I send the following poem: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, 'O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!' Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?' They sailed away for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grews; And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. 'Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for a one shillling Your ring?' Said the Pussy, 'I will.' So they took it away, and were married the next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear Ellen Moody
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:18:40 -0900 From: Robert Raven <rraven(at)alaska.net> Subject: Re: Winter Solstice Ellen Moody wrote: > > During supper tonight I was informed that tonight's moon > is peculiarly bright. It seems that the shortest day of the > year coincides with a night in which the moon is particularly > close to the earth, and the earth particularly close to the sun. > As I looked out from my window, the light of the moon did > seem to echo the white lights (in the form of a > row of snowflakes) from our Winter Solstice tree So > I went out into my yard and observed the full moon. > I can report that from a point in Northern Virginia it > looks to my (poor) eyes very bright. Ellen, Those of us who live in Alaska, where it's VERY dark at solstice, and the moon is VERY high in the sky, were looking forward to this full moon. Soooo, Monday we got a foot of snow, followed by a warm snap borne on 70 MPH winds, sending the temperature up near 50 Fahrenheit, accompanied by horizontal rain, melting just enough to allow all streets to become ice rinks when it froze tonight, and it has started to snow again. What moon? Bob Raven
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:08:28 +0001 From: Ellen Moody <Ellen2(at)JimandEllen.org> Subject: Winter Solstice Dear Robert and Gaslight friends, Oh well. I am lucky in several ways. I also live on a street of small private houses which are low in height. We don't get much traffic through my street. Those who live in cities with high rise apartment houses or near elevated railways or other technological 'marvels' may not be able to see the moon as very bright either. We could connect this to Gaslight stories. Between 1880 and 1910 or so, was the moon more evident to sensibilities? Did the moon therefore play a stronger role in literature than it does today? I expect so. Cheers to all, Ellen Moody
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:24:02 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Gaslight email commands for the holidays
In the following post, I've had to split the word "sub_scribe" so that the
Majordomo email software won't reject it. If you use any of the commands listed
below, please remove the "_".
This will be a repetition of recent information for new subscribers, but I want
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In a nutshell, there is no "nomail" feature with Gaslight. If you would like to
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To unsub_scribe from Gaslight, just send the following command to:
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for you. Let me know if you've been receiving individual posts or the Gaslight
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I'm appending some other Majordomo email commands in case they will be of use to
you.
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On schedule.lst, we will include any information of which we are aware for
electronic access to the stories under discussion, when that access is at no
cost. We provide most of the stories ourselves through the file respository at
ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
and at the Gaslight website
http://wwww.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight
2. WEBSITE
All new stories are available at the Gaslight website, for those who
prefer to read HTML versions and to see the original illustrations for some of
the stories.
The files available here are all listed by year in the Chronological
listing, and by author in either the Fiction or Non-fiction listing. These
lists are more up to date than the ones available from ftpmail.
The URL is:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight
**SUMMARY OF EMAIL COMMANDS**
SUBSCRIBING...
Here is a summary of Majordomo commands for subscribing and unsubscribing
from Gaslight. They only work if you send them to
Gaslight-request(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
To subscribe to Gaslight and receive all of the individual posts, send
this command WITH NO SUBJECT LINE:
Sub_scribe Gaslight
and to end your subscription, send:
Unsub_scribe Gaslight
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format, send this command WITH NO SUBJECT LINE:
Sub_scribe Gaslight-digest
and to end your subscription, send:
Unsub_scribe Gaslight-digest
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are made available, send this command WITH NO SUBJECT LINE:
Sub_scribe Gaslight-announce
and to end your subscription, send:
Unsub_scribe Gaslight-announce
For information about more Majordomo commands, send this command WITH NO
SUBJECT LINE:
Help
RETRIEVING ETEXTS VIA EMAIL...
To retrieve the stories from Gaslight after its filename has been
announced, send to:
ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
WITH NO SUBJECT LINE in the post, the following commands:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get filename.txt
Any other conventional ftp commands, separated by hard
returns, can be included in the body of this message.
**DIGESTS AND ARCHIVES**
Posts are archived in the digests in the Gaslight website. They are named
by the last date included in the digest, eg. 97apr10.htm
An archived digest may include more than one day, so it is best to use the
search function on Gaslight's mainpage, including "digest" as one of the terms
to be searched.
**WEBSITE**
As with the discussion schedule, the website reflects what listmembers
have asked to see. It currently offers all the new stories since 97-jan in a
HTML version, and the digests of discussions are appearing. The main website is
supported by Mount Royal College and its English Department. Its URL is:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight
There are two supplementary sites provided by GeoCities in the United
States. These are used for etexts drawn from sources that are in the American
Public Domain, but which cannot be confirmed to be in the Canadian Public
Domain. The URLs here are:
Gaslight Stateside edition
http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/7227
Frauds of America
http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/7236
**LIST CO-COORDINATORS**
This list is maintained at Mount Royal College, Calgary by
Stephen Davies SDavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
and
Diana Patterson DPatterson(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
We welcome your suggestions or questions.
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