Gaslight Digest Monday, January 25 1999 Volume 01 : Number 036


In this issue:


   Today in History - January 18
   Re: The Man in Grey
   Happy Birthday Edgar
   "The Music Essence"
   Today in History - Jan. 19
   Happy Birthday Poe
   Re: Happy Birthday Poe
   Re: Happy Birthday Poe
   Today in History - Jan. 20
   Today in History - Jan. 21
   Re: "The Music Essence"
   [Fwd: "The Music Essence"]
   Re: "The Music Essence"
   Re: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"]
   RE: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"]
   Today in History - Jan. 22
   <FWD> Suffragists oral histories now available online
   search lost
   Re: search lost
   Re: search lost
   Today in History - Jan. 25
   Re: Gaslight Digest V1 #35
   Gaslight reading--

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:06:59 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - January 18

            1836
                Knife aficionado Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its 
Texas defenders.
            1862
                John Tyler, former president of the U.S., was buried at 
Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
            1902
                The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support 
to Panama as the canal
                site.
            1910
                Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and 
landing from a ship in San
                Francisco.
            1916
                The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum.

     Born on January 18
            1782
                Daniel Webster, Congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts 
senator, and
                Secretary of State before the Civil War.
            1813
                Joseph Glidden, inventor.
            1858
                Daniel Hale Williams, the first physician to perform open heart 
surgery and founder of
                Provident Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
            1882
                A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist 
who wrote Winnie the
                Pooh.
            1892
                Oliver Hardy, member of Laurel and Hardy comedy duo who starred 
in numerous films.
            1904
                Cary Grant, U.S. actor famous for his roles in The Philadelphia 
Story and North by
                Northwest.

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:25:15 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Re: The Man in Grey

Way back on Jan. 7 (is there any way to speed up delivery of the digests?),
Stephen followed up on Patricia T.'s opener...

>The Man in Grey is a curious anti-hero.  He's sent by the national Ministry
of Police to track down, within France, agitators against Napoleon's
empire.  The local law enforcement agencies are slack, and therefore resent
his successes, and the Chouans (pro-Royalist rebels) are direly
antagonistic to him.  Even the innocents who are aided by his fancy
brainwork don't send any positive words his way.  He's just not liked.

The entire concept seems to have been an attempt by Orczy to present the
antithesis of Pimpernel, of whom she must have written countless stories by
the time she created the Man in Grey (1919).  Part of the reverse image of
>Pimpernel may also have included being unliked.

A wild theory I have (which I don't see can be proven or disproven by 
"Silver-Leg") is that the Man in Grey is Chauvelin (although I will grant tMiG 
doesn't show C's overfondness for snuff), and that the Chouans may have been 
aided at some point by the Scarlet Pimpernel  - who you may recall had aided 
the Aristos during the Revolution, belonged to a nation with no love for 
Napoleon at the time, and who would have been about 53 when Boney met his 
Waterloo.

On another matter, I was disappointed that tMiG felt compelled to execute 
Hare-Lip and Mole-Skin himself, rather than leaning elsewhere in his 
investigation that they were utterly ignorant of Sainte-Tropez/Silver-Leg's 
secret, and leaving them to the offstage guillotine.  But this does tie in well 
to the anti-Pimpernel theory.

Jerry
gmc(at)libra.pvh.org

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:56:38 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Happy Birthday Edgar

Edgar Allen Poe, January 19, 1809

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

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:56:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: "The Music Essence"

The following excerpt about "The Music Essence" is from Don Dulchinos's
biography of Ludlow.  The excerpt pretty much gives away the plot,
just in case you haven't read the story.

[Beginning of excerpt.]

"The Music Essence" appeared on New Year's Eve in the _New York
Commercial Advertiser_....The story was the lead item of the holiday
supplement, and featured a large byline and the legend "WRITTEN
EXPRESSLY FOR THE COMMERICAL ADVERTISER."

The story's central thematic concern with music grew out of his [Ludlow's]
exposure to the New York music scene as reviewer and "operatic
gossip" columnist with the _Evening Post_.   Indeed, contemporary
performers like D'Angri and Carl Forms, whom Fitz Hugh had praised
in reviews, were called upon here to flesh out the story.  In it a young
man falls in love with a beautiful deaf mute.  He believes she is so
sensitive that if he can translate music so it may be apprehended
through a sense other than hearing, she will derive more pleasure
from it than the most sensitive ear.  He does this through an invention
that converts sound into  color, which he christens the _kaleidophone_.
"The Music Essence" represents a further development in Fitz Hugh's
style.  The story seems clearly a vehicle to present his musings into
the nature of music itself.  The narrative bogs down at one point as
Fitz Hugh expounds on the subject:

   Music in its pure scientific aspect is quite independent of sound--
   uses sound only as it ordinary normal expression--and by all the
   more delicate intellects--the poets especially--is constantly
   translated according to a system of analogies, into other than
   audible forms....All music it seemed to me, finally resolves itself
   itself into a science of tensions, and one nerve as well as another
   may convey the relations of tension, provided that we attain the
   means best calculated to awake their plea through the senses.`

.....

The story is also a departure in plot resolution.  Again, with the
freedom from formula afforded by the setting of this story in the
_New York Commercial Advertiser_ (i.e., not _Harper's_), Fitz Hugh
is not obligated to include a happy ending.  Indeed, after his
beloved deaf mute undergoes an operation to restore her hearing he
finds her sensitive nature is overcome by a world in which there is
"too much noise. I do not hear enough music."  She eventually
wastes away and dies, now "amopng the music of the Angels!" but
leaving the narrator alone in tragedy.

The ending is well foreshadowed by the departure in style.  Fitz Hugh
not only begins the story with a short, vague description of an
earlier tragedy in which the narraotr narrowly avoids jail, but also
refrains from virtually all puns, humorous asides and other
wordplay that had been his trademark up to this time.

[End of excerpt.]

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

rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:25:04 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Jan. 19

             1847
                New Mexico Governor Charles Bent is slain by Pueblo Indians in 
Taos.
            1861
                Georgia secedes from the Union.
            1902
                The magazine "L'Auto" announces the new Tour de France.
            1915
                The first German air raids on Great Britain inflict minor 
casualties.

     Born on January 19
             1807
                Robert E. Lee, Confederate general of the Civil War.
            1809
                Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet best known for his 
stories "Fall of the House
                of Usher " and "The Tell-Tale Heart." His most famous poems are 
"The Raven" and
                Annabel Lee."
            1839
                Paul C?zanne, French post-Impressionist painter, best 
remembered for his works Card
                Players and L'Oeuvre.
            1919
                John H. Johnson, editor and publisher of Ebony and Jet 
magazines.

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:17:05 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Happy Birthday Poe

Read THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER for his birthday and now a modern
sequel called MADELEINE:RETURN TO USHER.   Will the bottle of whisky and
flower appear or is this in October on his death?

Deborah

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

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:52:43 -0500
From: clementk(at)alink.com (Clement, Kevin)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Poe

At 07:17 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Read THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER for his birthday and now a modern
>sequel called MADELEINE:RETURN TO USHER.   Will the bottle of whisky and
>flower appear or is this in October on his death?
>
>Deborah
>
>Deborah McMillion
>deborah(at)gloaming.com
>http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

According to Fox News/AP, the cognac and three roses appeared yesterday.

from

http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/0119/n_ap_0119_81.sml

The Wire has a version with pictures of his grave at:

http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=NATIONAL&STORYID=APIS6QI
7Q680

which is a direct link to the story but you may have to go to
http://wire.ap.org
,select a wire source close to you,  and do a search for poe
(I've had problems with direct links to stories on this site before)

Mysterious stranger leaves roses, cognac on macabre poet's grave
 7.42 a.m. ET (1243 GMT) January 19, 1999

 By Alex Dominguez, Associated Press


 BALTIMORE (AP) ? A mysterious stranger clad in a three-quarter length
 black peacoat left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early
today,
 continuing a tradition that began 50 years ago.

 About a dozen people waited inside and outside Westminster Church until the
 tall, unknown visitor made his arrival at the tiny brick-walled cemetery
just before
 3 a.m. EST.

 The stranger placed his hands on Poe's tombstone and appeared to pray. A
 moment later he was gone, leaving three roses and a bottle of cognac to
mark the
 190th birthday of the macabre author.

 The identity of the first mysterious visitor, who had been dressed in
black topcoat
 and fedora, has remained a riddle since the ritual began in 1949, a
century after
 Poe died.

 The aging visitor believed to be the original carried on the tradition
until 1993,
 when he left a cryptic note saying, "The torch will be passed.''

 His followers have agreed to carry on the anonymous annual tribute, said Jeff
 Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum in Baltimore.

 "They said they would continue the tradition in his footsteps,'' Jerome
said. "I
 don't want to say too much more because some of the note's contents are of a
 private nature. I'm not trying to be mysterious, but some of this has to
remain with
 me because it may give a clue as to who it is.''

 Poe penned classic horror stories such as "The Fall of the House of
Usher,'' "The
 Pit and the Pendulum,'' "The Telltale Heart'' and "The Masque of the Red
Death.''
 His famous poems include "The Raven'' and "Annabel Lee.''

 He lived in Baltimore from 1829 to 1836 and died here in 1849 at age 40. The
 three roses left each year are thought to represent the poet, his wife,
and her
 mother. All are buried in the tiny cemetery.

 Lynne Finley, of Nashville, Tenn. spent the night at the church with her
sister, D.J.
 Gaskin, of Burke, Va. to celebrate Ms. Finley's 40th birthday, which she
shares
 with Poe.

 "Knowing that the tradition will be carried on was encouraging, but I was
a little
 saddened,'' Ms. Finley said.

 Her sister said the atmosphere was "almost spooky.''

 "Its such a mysterious devotion,'' Ms. Gaskin said. "And the cemetery is
almost
 like a little time capsule in the middle of the city. It's beautiful.''

Kevin Clement
clementk(at)alink.com

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:58:37 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Poe

>The Wire has a version with pictures of his grave at:
>
>http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=NATIONAL&STORYID=APIS6Q17Q6
>80


Thanks to Kevin for this story.  I had no trouble with the direct link by
selecting it.  However, my mail makes things a "hot link" and all the
numbers didn't get in to the "hotness" part.  The pictures make it better.
Thank you for answering my Poe query.

Deborah

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

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:55:36 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Jan. 20

            1841
                Hong Kong is ceded to Great Britain from China as part of the 
concessions from the
                Opium War.
            1908
                The Sullivan Ordinance bars women from smoking in public 
facilities in the United States [funny, I don't remember Sullivan scoring this 
ordinance in either "I've Got A Little List" or "Let the Punishment Fit the 
Crime" &8-{) ].

     Born on January 20
            1820
                Anne Clough, promoter of higher education.
            1893
                Bessy Colman, first African American aviator.
            1896
                George Burns, vaudeville comedian and actor. hosted radio and 
television show with his
                wife Gracie Allen before going into movie like The Sunshine Boys
            1910
                Joy Adamson, British author and naturalist who lived in Kenya 
and wrote Born Free.

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:23:10 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Jan. 21

            1910 
                Japan rejects the American proposal to neutralize ownership of 
the Manchurian Railway.
            1919
                The German Krupp plant begins producing guns under the U.S. 
armistice terms.

     Born on Jan. 21
            1821
                John Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President.
            1824
                Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:26:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: "The Music Essence"

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard L. King wrote:

> I should note that Ludlow's protagonist is quite concerned with religious
> faith, that he (as does the deaf student) believes music comes from God.
> Again, I don't know what it all means, but it is a very different piece of
> fiction than we usually read (just my opinion), and...well...I liked it.
>

Ludlow himself was the son of a Presbyterian minister, a well-known
abolitionist whose house and church were attacked by white mobs in New
York in the mid-1850s. (The elder Ludlow was also involved in the
Armistead affair, about which Steven Spielberg made a film recently). Fitz
Hugh took the route often followed by "preachers' kids" and
rebelled--in this case, a rebellion that lasted to the end of his
short life. Yet his interest in religion never wavered. Even his
drug experimentation (he is most famous for his DeQuincyesque _The
Hasheesh Eater_) became a way, mistaken though it was, of looking for God,
of finding an avenue into the things of the spirit that he seemed to
crave.

As a writer, Ludlow was a member of the Bohemian crowd in New York
that gathered at Pfaff's, an eatery associated in these years with
Walt Whitman. One member of this group of young writers we
have encountered before on Gaslight, Fitzjames O'Brien. Another still
was Thomas Bailey Aldritch, best known as the author of _The Story of
A Bad Boy_ (the hero is a kind of Eastern Tom Sawyer). The chief
literary deity of the group (Whitman excepted, of course) was
Edgar Allan Poe, so it is not so odd that Poe's influence can be
found in Ludlow's work, more particularly in "The Phial of Dread,"
which we read some time ago, and "A Strange Acquaintance of Mine"--
this one has a New Orleans setting--than in "The Music Essence."

One of Ludlow's college friends became a teacher of the deaf, and I
wonder if he did not take Fitz Hugh to such a school as the latter
describes in the story. It is, in any case, an interesting place,
and the story has value even if it is only as a look at the kinds of
provisions then made for the deaf, at least at the better institutions.
Ludlow's pictures of such places (so rarely touched by other writers), and
of the New York of the 1850s, constitute a good deal of my interest in
him. He gives me a sense of what it was like to live in that place and
time that I have not found in any other writer--and just for
the reason you mention, Richard: Ludlow, for all his wondrous tales,
was, to a great extent, a realist. This realism might extend even to
the fanciful part of the tale, the construction of the _kaleidophone_.
What we have hear, it seems to me, is a mechanical representation
of the synesthetic experience, which Ludlow might well have known from
his hashish experiments.

Btw, Ludlow was a friend of the young Mark Twain.

What impressed me as well about this story is that neither Margaret
nor the other students at the school are presented as pathetic. Indeed,
by the end Margaret's deafness appears almost preferable to the hearing
world of her husband, which is so full of noise and cacophony. Thinking
of it I was reminded of Keats's line about the "spirit ditties of no
tone" and Wallace Stevens's assurance (in "Peter Quince at the Clavier")
that "Music is feeling, then, not sound." I think that these lines
capture the paradox of the story, set up so beautifully in the title,
that the finest music is not necessarily that which we hear with our
mortal ears. This is a lesson the narrator comes to learn too late.

I am now reading, whenever I get a few spare moments, Don Dulchinos's
biography, _Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh
Eater_. Ludlow led an extraordinary life, and left behind a body of
work at least the equivalent in style and substance to many of the
19th century writers now being touted as neglected geniuses.  And indeed
Ludlow has been almost forgotten.

As for the religious element in "The Music Essence," the perspective
that the narrator and Margaret bring to it would not have been at all
uncommon in America at this period--and yet in much of the literature
from the time we read nowadays it seems missing. Here is another aspect
of Ludlow's story that I appreciate: I find that I'm in the presence
of real 19th century Americans, or at least ones that I can identify
and have empathy for.

Well, I have gone on for quite some time.  Hope other Gaslighters will
read this tale, which--as Richard implies--is weird in a way that we
have never seen weird done before.

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

rchamp7927(at)aol.com       robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:29:58 -0500
From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU>
Subject: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"]

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I realized this morning that I sent the following posting to Bob alone
instead of the entire list, so I'm reposting to Gaslight.

Richard King

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I finished this interesting, but very weird, story last night. I'd say Bob's
post about sums up the story, at least as to the plot. What struck me about
"The Music Essence" is how, well, 20th C. the writing style is for what I
think was written in 1861). I have been reading quite a bit of Noir fiction
these days and when I started this week's story at first I thought I was
reading a tale by one of the 1950s paperback geniuses like Cornell Woolrich,
Peter Rabe, or maybe John D. MacDonald in his early days (Ha! I'll bet that's
the first time THESE names have been bandied about on Gaslight!) Ludlow's
fiction that has noir *edge* to it and makes one read onward, forward, onward.
There is also a little something of both Poe and Ambrose Bierce in Ludlow's
writing style that gives one an edge-of-the-seat doom-is-looming feeling that
is quite pleasant.

I can't really pretend I understand what "The Music Essence" is all about, and
I don't understand the concepts of how music can be viewed in colors by a deaf
person, or even how a deaf person can learn to actually play music (the woman
does this, and she doesn't memorize, but somehow does it through understanding
musical concepts and enjoying music in a much different way than do most of
us).

I should note that Ludlow's protagonist is quite concerned with religious
faith, that he (as does the deaf student) believes music comes from God.
Again, I don't know what it all means, but it is a very different piece of
fiction than we usually read (just my opinion), and...well...I liked it.

Richard King
rking(at)indian.vinu.edu

Robert Champ wrote:

> The following excerpt about "The Music Essence" is from Don Dulchinos's
> biography of Ludlow.  The excerpt pretty much gives away the plot,
> just in case you haven't read the story.
>
> [Beginning of excerpt.]

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:12:18 -0500
From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU>
Subject: Re: "The Music Essence"

Bob wrote:

> the reason you mention, Richard: Ludlow, for all his wondrous tales,
> was, to a great extent, a realist. This realism might extend even to

I suppose this is why I see this story as a 19th century noir work, or
certainly fiction with an edge.

>
> the fanciful part of the tale, the construction of the _kaleidophone_.
> What we have hear, it seems to me, is a mechanical representation
> of the synesthetic experience, which Ludlow might well have known from
> his hashish experiments.

Not to mention the hashish as adding to noirish attitudes.

> What impressed me as well about this story is that neither Margaret
> nor the other students at the school are presented as pathetic. Indeed,

Can you imagine how Dickens would treat a deaf asylum?

>
> As for the religious element in "The Music Essence," the perspective
> that the narrator and Margaret bring to it would not have been at all
> uncommon in America at this period--and yet in much of the literature
> from the time we read nowadays it seems missing. Here is another aspect

This is very true. Modern fiction often doesn't have people doing things people
do: attend church, have families, drive their son/daughter to choir practice at
7 a.m., check out books at the library, generally being happy. I suppose it is
because these aspects of life are considered boring and don't make good copy.
Modern fiction is a fiction of unhappiness and the Creating Writing Lab,
perhaps? Who would want to read a novel about...me?

>
> of Ludlow's story that I appreciate: I find that I'm in the presence
> of real 19th century Americans, or at least ones that I can identify
> and have empathy for.

Richard King
rking(at)indian.vinu.edu

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:38:01 -0700 (MST)
From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"]

Richard King asked:
>>>I can't really pretend I understand what "The Music Essence" is all
about, and I don't understand the concepts of how music can be viewed in
colors by a deaf person, or even how a deaf person can learn to actually
play music (the woman does this, and she doesn't memorize, but somehow
does it through understanding musical concepts and enjoying music in a
much different way than do most of us).<<<
There was a discussion on "Synaesthesia" on Gaslight a year or so ago
which may have something of relevance to Richard's problem. I can see that
if one visualises the musical scale as a colour spectrum, with octave
chabges in hue or brightness, say, one could visualise a chord as a
mixture of colours, or perhaps as a wallpaper pattern. Some
science-fiction writer has treated this, but I can't recall who it was
off-hand.
Peter Wood

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:47:37 -0500
From: "Roberts, Leonard" <lroberts(at)email.uncc.edu>
Subject: RE: [Fwd: "The Music Essence"]

The protagonist in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination suffers
synaesthesia after a severe shock. But all his senses were 'scrambled', not
just sight/sound. I thought it was well done but that is one of my favorite
science fiction works.

Len Roberts

> There was a discussion on "Synaesthesia" on Gaslight a year or so ago
> which may have something of relevance to Richard's problem. I can see that
> if one visualises the musical scale as a colour spectrum, with octave
> chabges in hue or brightness, say, one could visualise a chord as a
> mixture of colours, or perhaps as a wallpaper pattern. Some
> science-fiction writer has treated this, but I can't recall who it was
> off-hand.
> Peter Wood

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:56:56 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Jan. 22

           1807
                President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form 
a new republic in the
                Southwest.
            1813
                During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor 
defeat a U.S. contingent
                planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
            1824
                A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu 
on the African Gold
                Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power.
            1863
                In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern 
Virginia, General Ambrose
                Burnside leads his army on a march north Frederickburg, but 
foul weather bogs his army
                down in what will become known as "Mud March."
            1897
                Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu 
warriors at the Battle of Rorke's
                Drift in South Africa.
            1905
                Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. 
Petersburg.
            1912
                Second Monte-Carlo auto race begins.
            1913
                Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up 
Adrianpole.

     Born on January 22
             1788
                Lord George Byron, English romantic poet, best known for 
"Lara," and "Don Juan."
            1874
                D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, U.S. director, the most influential 
figure in early film history,
                made The Birth of A Nation and Intolerance.
            1890
                Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
            1906
                Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneering aviator.
            1909
                U Thant, Secretary General of United Nations General Assembly 
who played a major role
                in the Cuban crisis.

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:58:49 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: <FWD> Suffragists oral histories now available online

- ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 01/22/99
12:57 PM ---------------------------

Please respond to Merrilee Proffitt <mproffit(at)library.berkeley.edu>


                                                              
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 Subject: Suffragists oral histories now available online







New TEI-based collection now available!

In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the
auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office,
collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's
suffrage movement.  Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories
preserved the memories of these remarkable women, documenting formative
experiences, activities to win the right to vote for women, and careers
as leaders of the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace,
and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, 25 years later, the
nineteenth century meets the twenty-first as the words of these activist
women, born from the 1860s to the 1890s, are made accessible for future
scholarly research and public information via the Internet.

Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are
represented here with full-length oral histories. These include Alice
Paul, founder and leader of the more militant organization called the
National Woman's Party, which made suffrage a mainstream issue through
public demonstrations and protests; Sara Bard Field, a mother, lover,
poet, and social and political reformer, whose interactions with
California artists and political activists gave her a national profile;
Burnita Shelton Matthews, a District of Columbia federal judge; Helen
Valeska Bary, who campaigned for woman's suffrage in Los Angeles and
later had a prominent career in labor and social security
administration; Jeannette Rankin, a Montana suffrage campaigner and the
first woman elected to Congress, who recalls Carrie Chapman Catt, the
League of Women Voters, and her lifelong work for world peace; Mabel
Vernon, who is credited for the advance work of gathering the throngs of
people to greet Alice Paul and her entourage on their famous
coast-to-coast suffrage campaign in the fall of 1915; and Rebecca
Hourwich Reyher, who gives an account of working with Alice Paul in
organizing the Woman's Party.

The oral histories of five rank-and-file suffragists are collected in
The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison, conducted by Sherna Gluck,
director of the Feminist History Research Project. These women spoke out
for suffrage from horse-drawn wagons and streetcorner soapboxes. Some
discussed politics in genteel tea parties, others were arrested for
picketing for suffrage in front of the White House. These five
interviews represent the diversity of ordinary women who made woman's
suffrage a reality, documenting their motivations and ethical
convictions, their family, social, and regional backgrounds, and their
part in the campaign for women's right to vote.

The oral histories are now available online, and we invite you to use
them.  The address is:

http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html

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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:54:53 -0500
From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net>
Subject: search lost

I did a search for Harper's Weekly.  and Harpers Monthly.  I got Oprah
Winfrey!

Help?

I'm more interested in stories that were illustrated by Howard Pyle and
N.C. Wyeth, not Oprah Winfrey! <G>

And for those of you who don't remember what Bloomsburg University in
Bloomsburg PA is like, don't tell me to go to my "local university".
Unless one is enrolled as a student there, one cannot get into their
catalog, take out books, get into the library to read the collection or
anything.  If anyone can help me find collections of Harpers at Bucknell
University, they welcome anyone and I have a library card for there but it
is a 45 minute drive and I'd rather know than take a chance on winter
weather and drive there.  Penn State University is over 2 hours away, and
they are from the same "anti- non- student" fraternity as the Bloom U dean
of library.  No mistake- no plural on that.  sigh.

Any suggestions for searches?

Thank you.


Linda Anderson

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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:06:16 -0800
From: Phyllis J Kaelin <pjkaelin(at)earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: search lost

Hi, Linda Anderson --

A longtime lurker popping up with to answer a question I think I can answer.

To get to the library catalog for Bucknell online, type (or click on, if
your mail works that way) --

               http://library.bucknell.edu

(yes, no "www").  At that point you are in the catalog and can search as
you like.  Seems like a pretty straightforward system and they do seem to
have years and years of Harper's Weekly in microfilm at least.  (Search
without the apostrophe, that's how I found it.)  Didn' t look for Harper's
Monthly.

Regarding a work-around for Bloomsburg --  could you hire a student (for
$10 maybe) to do a library search and print out or write out the results,
including call letters and then have your local public reference librarian
(no matter how small the library!)  make a request through interlibrary
loan?  I don't know if Bloomsburg participates in ILL, but they may.   Of
course, the reference librarian _may_ be able to make the request without
call letters, as well.  Same idea is bound to work for Penn State Library.
 I know, Interlibrary Loans take time and can put limits on what you can
do, but can be made to work.   The reference librarian may have other ideas
as well.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Phyllis Kaelin
pkaelin(at)earthlink.net

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:08:34 -0600
From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net>
Subject: Re: search lost

Linda,
   Although they tend to run the price up on some of these, especially if
they're
in top condition, you might find "reading copies" either at e-bay, the
online auction at ebay.com (which doesn't cost anything to join) or you can
search a number of online databases at bookfinder.com. Afraid I don't have
for sale at the moment. Good luck.
Brian

PS: I looked this AM on ebay & discovered that one or two bound copies
dated 1891-2 went at around 4 AM Pacific time for about $15 (not including
shipping). The early bird, etc..

brianbks(at)netins.net

BRIAN MCMILLAN, BOOKS
1429 L AVENUE
TRAER IA  50675

- ----------
> From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net>
> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Subject: search lost
> Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 4:54 PM
>
> I did a search for Harper's Weekly.  and Harpers Monthly.  I got Oprah
> Winfrey!
>
> Help?
>
> I'm more interested in stories that were illustrated by Howard Pyle and
> N.C. Wyeth, not Oprah Winfrey! <G>
>
> And for those of you who don't remember what Bloomsburg University in
> Bloomsburg PA is like, don't tell me to go to my "local university".
> Unless one is enrolled as a student there, one cannot get into their
> catalog, take out books, get into the library to read the collection or
> anything.  If anyone can help me find collections of Harpers at Bucknell
> University, they welcome anyone and I have a library card for there but
it
> is a 45 minute drive and I'd rather know than take a chance on winter
> weather and drive there.  Penn State University is over 2 hours away, and
> they are from the same "anti- non- student" fraternity as the Bloom U
dean
> of library.  No mistake- no plural on that.  sigh.
>
> Any suggestions for searches?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Linda Anderson

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:43:52 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Jan. 25

            1846
                The dreaded Corn Laws, which taxed imported oats, wheat and 
barley, are repealed by the
                British Parliament.
            1904
                Two-hundred coal miners are entombed in an explosion in 
Pennsylvania.
            1915
                Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San 
Francisco, make a record
                telephone transmission.
            1918
                Austria and Germany reject U.S. peace proposals. When the 
United States entered World
                War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle anti-war 
sentiment.
            1919
                The League of Nations plan is adopted by the Allies.

     Born on January 25
            1759
                Robert Burns, Scottish poet who wrote *Auld Lang Syne* and 
*Comin* Thru the Rye.*
            1882
                Virginia Woolf, English author who wrote Mrs. Dalloway and 
Orlando.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:24:50 -0600
From: MyShelf <myshelf(at)marlownet.net>
Subject: Re: Gaslight Digest V1 #35

Stepping out of lurkdom for a moment....

What is consider gaslight era... or gaslight mysteries..Do you mean
historical?

Does this list pick a book to read and discuss or do you discuss what you
are reading  indivdually?


Someone asked in the last digest about a list of historical or gaslight
mysteries.  Two anthologies spring to mind - CRIME THROUGH TIME 1 & 2  -
chocked full of historical mysteries and wonderful authors!

With anthologies I can experience each writer.... since I can't find enough
time to read all the historical series I would like.

Brenda Sue - slipping back into lurkdom....

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:41:22 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Gaslight reading--

With deference to Stephen, I answer:

>What is consider gaslight era... or gaslight mysteries..Do you mean
>historical?

For the best information on this list go to the website:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/

Gaslight era is considered from 1800-1919, the eras that the use of gas
lighting was prevalent.

>Does this list pick a book to read and discuss or do you discuss what you
>are reading  indivdually?

We read a story a week, usually posted before hand (though things are a bit
scattered after the holidays now).
This week we are starting Sheridan Le Fanu's HAUNTED LIVES (pt. 1) on the
website here:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/SCHEDS.HTM#current

Last week and still under discussion is Fitzhugh Ludlow's "The Music Essence"

There are also side readings that aren't pegged for spoilers and other
topics in the Gaslight Era can be brought up under "chat" topics.

Deborah


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

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