In this issue: RE: re-reading Re: Re: OT: re-reading RE: re-reading Re: re-reading Re: re-reading RE: re-reading RE: re-reading Poe Festival Schedule Re: re-reading/Atmosphere Re: RE: re-reading Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband Re: re-reading/Atmosphere Re: re-reading/Atmosphere Re: Hardy story into movie _Les Miserables_, the Welles radio production RE: Etext avail: Fraser's Bulldog Carney in "The gold wolf" Today in History - July 16 Bulwer Lytton Contest (fwd) Re: Bulwer Lytton Contest (fwd) "Island of Dr Moreau" Re: _Les Miserables_, the Welles radio production Re: _Les Miserables_, the Welles radio production "The Gold Wolf" Blair Witch Project RE: Blair Witch Project Re: Blair Witch Project RE: Blair Witch Project Re: Blair Witch Project Re: Blair Witch Project Re: re-reading/Atmosphere Re: re-reading/Atmosphere Today in History - July 19 Blair Witch Re: Blair Witch Re: Blair Witch -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:34:32 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: re-reading Kay Douglas mentioned: > Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth My favorite novel. I wore out several paperbacks (pitched 'em, Bob) before I found a first edition hardcover that should outlast me. I re-read Wind In The Willows about once a year. I have an ex-library hardcover and an electronic copy on my notebook computer. Someday I'm going to put a text-to-speech version of it on my website. I'm working on Rime of the Ancient Mariner right now and it's about to drive me crazy, so I don't know when WITW will appear, if ever. Cheers, Jim
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:33:58 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Re: OT: re-reading Phoebe -- this is like the reverse of the book burning/burial! > ><<Rumer Godden's A CANDLE FOR ST. JUDE>> > >Oh Carroll... I had forgotten this book. I will now re-read it. I only >recall how very moved I was, how much I enjoyed it. Like THE SECRET GARDEN, it restoreth my soul. It absolutely gets me every time, all the backstage life of that ballet company, and the impossible creation of a ballet in next to no time. What creative people can do when that passionaate imperative takes over and a lot of people get swept away and do the impossible. I used to be fascinated by my son's (around 7-8) projects -- artistic/building/ making go-carts -- the imaginative SEEING what he wanted, then just going after it, no consideration of possible difficulties, not caring, putting in something else if anything didn't work -- just sheer Zen it seemed to me. There's the target, you're it, you're there. Carroll
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:52:10 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: RE: re-reading >I re-read Wind In The Willows about once a year. I have an ex-library >hardcover and an electronic copy on my notebook computer. Someday I'm going >to put a text-to-speech version of it on my website. I'm working on JIM: I trust this is the original W in the Willows, which includes THE PIPER AT THE GATE OF DAWN. I'm still annoyed (mild word for the way I felt) that some editions leave it out. Was going to write an article for the Horn Book but lost my steam when I the e-text was on the Web somewhere in entirety. Carroll
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:57:28 -0400
From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com>
Subject: Re: re-reading
Jim wrote:
>> Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth
>
>My favorite novel. I wore out several paperbacks (pitched 'em, Bob) before
>I found a first edition hardcover that should outlast me.
Oh, you're the *first* person I've encountered who regards that as a
favorite. This does my heart good. Sara Monday in HERSELF SURPRISED
(another book in that trilogy) is perhaps my favorite literary character,
next to Gulley Jimson.
Cheers indeed
Kay
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:25:21 -0700 From: Jack Kolb <kolb(at)UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: re-reading One of the great unacknowledged pleasures of being an academic is that it NECESSITATES (if one takes advantage) consistently re-reading a number of favorite texts. I've re-read with great pleasure a number of texts (Jane Eyre and As I Lay Dying among them). But the following are more like obsessions: Browning's dramatic monologues Tennyson's In Memoriam Hardy's poetry Conrad's Heart of Darkness Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait, and especially Ulysses Outside of class, I have much enjoyed some childhood favorites, pretty much for escape, e.g.: Lewis's Narnia chronicles Tolkien's Hobbit (the Ring Chronicle is too much a downer) I reread the entire (Doyle) chronicle of Sherlock Holmes almost every year. Jack Kolb Dept. of English, UCLA kolb(at)ucla.edu
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:39:09 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: re-reading Carroll wrote: > JIM: I trust this is the original W in the Willows, which includes > THE PIPER AT THE GATE OF DAWN. I'm still annoyed (mild word for > the way I felt) that some editions leave it out. Was going to > write an article for the Horn Book but lost my steam when I > the e-text was on the Web somewhere in entirety. Yes, my printed edition includes this chapter. It's a later printing of the original edition. I assumed it was discarded because of its age, but maybe there was another reason... So much for cultural diversity. My electronic copies also include this chapter. One is available at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id="GraWind"&tag=public&imag es=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&part=0 I have another complete e-text that may have come from Project Gutenberg but I don't think so, as it's in HTML format also. J
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:48:11 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: re-reading Kay wrote: > Oh, you're the *first* person I've encountered who regards that as a > favorite. This does my heart good. Sara Monday in HERSELF SURPRISED > (another book in that trilogy) is perhaps my favorite literary character, > next to Gulley Jimson. We're out of our period, but... I've read one other novel in the series, To Be A Pilgrim. I read an interview with John LeCarre recently, in which he claimed The Horse's Mouth as an influence. I was given my first copy by a friend, but it was a few years before I got around to reading it. Now it's at the top of my short list of books to take to a desert island. One of the few recommendations that really clicked. J
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:20:31 -0700 From: Alan Gullette <alang(at)creative.net> Subject: Poe Festival Schedule I just tried and got past the Java (etc) errors to this: Schedule... August 2 Opening Press Conference Grand opening to take place in the Old Town Square. Edgar Allan Poe to be formally welcomed to the city by Franz Kafka. 3 Exhibition Opening at the Carolinum, Charles University Evening Gala Opening - Rudolfinum Concert Hall. Programme to include Sergei Rachmaninov's 'The Bells' Performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra 4 Theatre from the U.K., Czech Republic and the U.S.A. will continue throughout the month of August. September 1-15 Premiere of new play from England 1-22 Screenings of films based on Edgar Allan Poe's works, ranging from early silents up to date. Throughout: Lecture by Burton Pollin - Professor Emeritus - N.Y.U. Throughout : Theatre from USA, Czech Republic and UK will continued to be staged throughout September - full programme will be published in July 1999. October 1 Czech language theatrical premiere. 6 Opera - Old Kings Palace Prague Castle. 7 Press Conference - 150th Anniversary. 7 Opera - Old Kings Palace Prague Castle. 9 The Masque Of The Red Death - Theatrical Pageant Prague Castle. 10 Opera - Old Kings Palace Prague Castle. 30 Festival Close.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:15:00 -0500 From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net> Subject: Re: re-reading/Atmosphere James E. Kearman wrote: >I re-read Wind In The Willows about once a year. Which leads to a question-what are some of your memorable reading experiences? I remember starting this book in an idyllic countryside B&B in Wales with a light rain outside. A refreshing break after a hard days travel. Brian McM. (Who's still looking for the time to finish this)
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:19:50 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: RE: re-reading I re-read my favorite Kiplings regularly, most notably Kim, the Puck stories, and the Jungle Books. Too good to leave to kids, those. Actually, much of what I re-read regularly is "kiddie lit"--Alice, E. Nesbit, the Narnia books. BTW, if anyone would like to try a "new" and excellent author in the "juvenile" line, try Phillip Pullman, whose books are well-written and exciting. My beloved and I were just discussing the fact that The Scarlet Pimpernel is STILL good reading and a cracking good story. The Baroness could really tell one! Kiwi
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:26:59 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband Has anyone else seen the movie of this which is currently in release? I saw it the other evening and enjoyed it hugely. I recall that there was another production of it (last year?) and am wondering if anyone has any comparisons to make. There is one particularly delicious moment in this film where the action takes place at the theatre during a production of The Importance of Being Earnest, including a curtain speech by Oscar himself. Kiwi
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:10:36 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: re-reading/Atmosphere > Which leads to a question-what are some of your memorable reading experiences? Reading Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness" alone on a stormy night and having the power go out at the 'subway' part. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:40:32 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: re-reading/Atmosphere > Which leads to a question-what are some of your memorable reading experiences? Reading A. Merrit's _The Ship of Ishtar_ the first time, and getting strange sensations of dizziness and a sort of feeling that what was around me was not real. Asked my dad about this later, and he said the same thing happened to him when he read it the first time. Sitting in the Marion Wade Center at Wheaton College reading the entire manuscript of Dorothy L. Sayers' _Thrones, Dominations_. I wish there was a way to persuade her estate to bring out a scholarly edition of this manuscript, which was not done well by in its "completion" by Jill Paton Walsh. Reading a bound volume of magazines with the original article in which jazz is attacked as the music of Sin, at the University of Missouri-Columbia library. Then going over to The Shack, a now-defunct tavern contemporary with the article, and seeing jazz-age graffiti cut into the tables. Kiwi
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:02:57 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Hardy story into movie Thanks to Donna for the Hardy movie review! Patricia
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:38:57 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: _Les Miserables_, the Welles radio production
I used to spend a bundle ordering old time radio shows (OTR) when I first
discvored this cottage industry. A longstanding desire of mine to here Orson
Welles and co. produce _Les Miserables_ (1937) has finally been granted.
I learned from Hounds-L about a Mercury Theatre website at
http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/ which allows you to download RealAudio or MP3
versions of the radio dramas.
I'm presuming that they are in the U.S. Public Domain because recordings are
only copyrighted for 60 years.
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
P.K. (post-keyboarding): I re-listen to productions
more often than I reread books.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:55:43 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: RE: Etext avail: Fraser's Bulldog Carney in "The gold wolf" Hey, Gaslighteers! Has anyone read the Bulldog Carney story this week? best, Patricia
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:54:00 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - July 16
1862
Two Union soldiers and their servant ransack a house and rape
a slave in Sperryville,
Va.
1875
The new French constitution is finalized.
1882
Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, dies of a stroke.
1918
Czar Nicholas and his family are executed by Bolsheviks at
Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Birthdays
1821
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science
1862
Ida Bell Wells, first president of the American Negro League
1896
Trygve Lie, first secretary-general of the United Nations
1907
Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar winning actress
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:54:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Bulwer Lytton Contest (fwd)
For all those who relish the ridiculous in prose, the results of the 1999
Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced and can be seen at
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/99win.htm
Here's a sample entry of note:
Rain -- violent torrents of it, rain like fetid water from a God-sized
pot of pasta strained through a sky-wide colander, rain as Noah knew it,
flaying the shuddering trees, whipping the whitecapped waters, violating
the sodden firmament, purging purity and filth alike from the land, rain
without mercy, without surcease, incontinent rain, turning to
intermittent showers overnight with partial clearing Tuesday.
Bob C. (wondering why our local weatherman can't talk like that)
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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: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:45:59 EDT
From: RChamp7927(at)aol.com
To: rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Subject: Bulwer Lytton Contest
Rain -- violent torrents of it, rain like fetid water from a God-sized
pot of pasta strained through a sky-wide colander, rain as Noah knew it,
flaying the shuddering trees, whipping the whitecapped waters, violating
the sodden firmament, purging purity and filth alike from the land, rain
without mercy, without surcease, incontinent rain, turning to
intermittent showers overnight with partial clearing Tuesday.
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 09:13:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Bulwer Lytton Contest (fwd) Thanks, Bob! Started my day with a chuckle! best phoebe
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 17:12:37 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: "Island of Dr Moreau" I knew I had reason to hate Val Kilmer! <G> I'm watching (for the first time) the Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer edition of "Island Of Dr. Moreau". I'm fascinated and appalled at the destruction of a good book. and Marlon Brando is still there- under the false teeth and the makeup. sigh. What an actor he was. and could still be. It's "Planet of the Apes" makeup but not as well done. Linda Anderson
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:59:28 +0000 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: _Les Miserables_, the Welles radio production Stephen: Thank you very much for posting this website. My husband and I listened to "War of the Worlds" Friday night; it was marvelous. I hadn't heard it in years, and we're planning on making our way through the other selections soon. We both love Orson Welles. Marta sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA wrote: > > I used to spend a bundle ordering old time radio shows (OTR) when I first > discvored this cottage industry. A longstanding desire of mine to here Orson > Welles and co. produce _Les Miserables_ (1937) has finally been granted. > > I learned from Hounds-L about a Mercury Theatre website at > http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/ which allows you to download RealAudio or MP3 > versions of the radio dramas. > > I'm presuming that they are in the U.S. Public Domain because recordings are > only copyrighted for 60 years. > > Stephen D > mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca > > P.K. (post-keyboarding): I re-listen to productions > more often than I reread books.
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: _Les Miserables_, the Welles radio production
I'd like to join Marta in saying, "Thanks, Steven," for passing on
news of this wonderful site. So far I have downloaded only one of the
selections--the three short story combo, one of which is a cleverly done
version of Saki's "The Open Window," but I plan to download others in
the future.
One marvels at the never-ending benefits of being a Gaslighter!
Bob C.
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Marta Dawes wrote:
> Stephen: Thank you very much for posting this website. My husband and
> I listened to "War of the Worlds" Friday night; it was marvelous. I
> hadn't heard it in years, and we're planning on making our way through
> the other selections soon. We both love Orson Welles.
>
> Marta
>
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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: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: "The Gold Wolf"
I very much enjoyed "The Gold Wolf," even though it was sometimes
necessary to hack through Fraser's style to get to it (note, for instance,
the story's winding second sentence).
The opening of the story, where Carney follows the strange trail of the
disappearing tracks, and the later sparring between Carney and Kootenay
Jim were the best parts, IMO. After Kootenary, Jack the Wolf didn't seem
half as impressive as the villain.
I wasn't quite sure what Carney was doing in his successful attempt to
melt the metal of the trap. No doubt Fraser is right in the description
of it, but I'm not familiar enough with the structure of traps to see this
one clearly in my mind. I think it weakened the plot, however, to make
the trap so powerful that it would ordinarily have crushed Carney's leg
bone. The intervening piece of limb that prevented the trap from snapping
Carney's seemed at little too convenient. But such things do happen to
heroes.
Another interesting bit was I think of as "the Lazarus scene." Fraser for
awhile allows us to think that Jack is dead, only to have him spring to
life--or if not spring, at least show himself among the living and still
dangerous. This bit of misdirection seems to have become a favorite
device of film makers in recent years. (You can't keep a good villain
down, it seems.)
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: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:15:10 -0400 (EDT) From: GargoyleMG(at)aol.com Subject: Blair Witch Project While we're talking movies, I was wondering if anyone else has seen " The Blair Witch Project? " I thought it smacked of Angela Carter & Grimms Fairy Tales with a dab of Ann Rule on the side...exactly, was it based on several myths or legends? Can anybody spot them and cue me in? Anita
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:21:40 +1000
From: Craig Walker <genre(at)tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: Blair Witch Project
Good Morning,
Strangely enough - another 'gothic' list I am on has had a lot to say about
trhe Blair Witch Project recently - and how this pseudo-documentary is
either chilling, redolent or perhaps even a harkening to noir of the 1930's
horror genre.
I haven't seen it as yet (here in Australia) and I must admit I am looking
forward to forming my own opinion of it.
Cheers
Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of GargoyleMG(at)aol.com
> Sent: Monday, 19 July 1999 10:15
> To: Gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Subject: Blair Witch Project
>
>
> While we're talking movies, I was wondering if anyone else
> has seen " The
> Blair Witch Project? "
>
> I thought it smacked of Angela Carter & Grimms Fairy Tales
> with a dab of Ann
> Rule on the side...exactly, was it based on several myths or
> legends? Can
> anybody spot them and cue me in?
>
> Anita
>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:32:24 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Blair Witch Project >While we're talking movies, I was wondering if anyone else has seen " The >Blair Witch Project? " If you are really interested go to the website http://www.blairwitch.com The whole background, 'folklore' (it's all made up but loosely based on Bell Witch, I believe), the ancient tome (shades of Necronomicon!), what the student's project was, etc. It's quite a rich website and lots of scary fun. I haven't had a chance to see the movie yet, just the Scifi channel's introduction (repeated tonight, by the way). Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:40:03 +1000
From: Craig Walker <genre(at)tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: Blair Witch Project
Good Morning,
I know that Blair Witch is a little off topic, but I must admit that all the
hype (that we've heard here) has me *very* interested in seeing the thing as
soon as I get to the US in 2 weeks.
Cheers
Craig
(in the US from August 3 to August 17)
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Genre Manipulations - Reality Engineers
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Fx: Intl +61 2 9564-5689
Mb: Intl +61 419 22-0013
ICQ: 1053193
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"Cross a Goldfish with an Elephant
and you get an Elephant ...that
never....erm....something"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of Deborah McMillion
> Nering
> Sent: Monday, 19 July 1999 10:32
> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Subject: Re: Blair Witch Project
>
>
> >While we're talking movies, I was wondering if anyone else
> has seen " The
> >Blair Witch Project? "
>
> If you are really interested go to the website
>
> http://www.blairwitch.com
>
> The whole background, 'folklore' (it's all made up but loosely based
> on Bell Witch, I believe), the ancient tome (shades of
> Necronomicon!), what the student's project was, etc. It's quite a
> rich website and lots of scary fun.
>
> I haven't had a chance to see the movie yet, just the Scifi channel's
> introduction (repeated tonight, by the way).
>
> Deborah
>
> Deborah McMillion
> deborah(at)gloaming.com
> http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:22:54 -0700 From: North <north(at)spiritmail.zzn.com> Subject: Re: Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch project is based loosely on an american folktale(I am uncertain to the exact location) as to the dating back to the 1700's right aroung the time of the witch trials. A young woman was accused of practicing witchcraft, and tied to a treee and left for dead. After that for the past 2 hundred years or so people have been disappearing and found dead, the most brutal was in the 1930's or 40's where in a group of 7 children were killed by some madman supposedly at the behest of a ghost. The movie the Blair Witch Project is a psuedo-documentary about seven college film students who go to film a project about the legend disappear in 1994. the film supposedly includes original footage by the students that was recovered. North ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:37:36 +0000 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: Blair Witch Project The two filmakers have said the entire story is fictional. There is no Black Forest in that area, and no town named Blair. There is a Burkittsville, about 75 people live there, and they all are terrified that they will be overrun by fans of the movie. They've already reported some vandalism to an old graveyard that had been untouched for years. Marta North wrote: > > The Blair Witch project is based loosely on an american folktale(I am uncertain to the exact location) as to the dating back to the 1700's right aroung the time of the witch trials. A young woman was accused of practicing witchcraft, and tied to a treee and left for dead. After that for the past 2 hundred years or so people have been disappearing and found dead, the most brutal was in the 1930's or 40's where in a group of 7 children were killed by some madman supposedly at the behest of a ghost. The movie the Blair Witch Project is a psuedo-documentary about seven college film students who go to film a project about the legend disappear in 1994. the film supposedly includes original footage by the students that was recovered. > > North > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:49:40 -0400 From: Connie Hirsch <Connie_Hirsch(at)HMCO.COM> Subject: Re: re-reading/Atmosphere >Reading Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness" alone on a stormy night >and having the power go out at the 'subway' part. >Deborah I can go this just slightly better -- last year I was reading that passage of "At the Mountains..." while actually =on= the Boston subway -- even a part of the line that HPL himself might have ridden. :-) (I'd quite forgotten that he mentions the Boston subway unmistakeably, so the experience remains fresh in my mind.)
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:11:05 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: re-reading/Atmosphere > >Reading Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness" alone on a stormy night > >and having the power go out at the 'subway' part. >I can go this just slightly better -- last year I was reading that passage of >"At the Mountains..." while actually =on= the Boston subway -- even a part of >the line that HPL himself might have ridden. :-) >(I'd quite forgotten that he mentions the Boston subway unmistakeably, so the >experience remains fresh in my mind.) Fun stuff!--thanks for sharing this one. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:38:00 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - July 19
1799
The Rosetta Stone, a tablet containing a hieroglyphic
inscription and its hieratic and
Greek translations is found in Egypt by soldiers under
Napoleon.
1848
The first Women's Rights Convention gathers in Seneca Falls,
N.Y, under the
leadership of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1870
France declares war on Prussia, beginning the Franco-Prussian
War.
Birthdays
1814
Samuel Colt, inventor of the first practical revolver
1834
Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter who favored
ballerinas
1865
Charles Horace Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:56:13 -0400 (EDT) From: GargoyleMG(at)aol.com Subject: Blair Witch North, Thanks much for the information on the Blair Witch. Sounds like a very amazing story. If one was to explore this sort of folklore, what books/short stories would you ( or anyone reading this ) say would make good reading? Anita
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:17:23 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Blair Witch >If one was to explore this sort of folklore, what books/short stories would >you ( or anyone reading this ) say would make good reading? Definitely the accounts of the Bell Witch from Tennessee. There are two good books: The Bell Witch : An American Haunting : Being the Eye Witness Account of Richard Powell Concerning the Bell Witch Haunting of Robertson County, Tennes Richard Powell, Brent Monahan (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1997 The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee Charles Edwin Price / Paperback / Published 1994 both of these are available from Amazon if not your local library. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:51:33 -0700 From: North <north(at)spiritmail.zzn.com> Subject: Re: Blair Witch Actually it depends on what type of folklore you are interested in. http://www.about.com has a very good urban folklore section, just clik on the society and culture icon. If you give me a few days I'll see if I can come up with a more complete list of resource materials for those interested. North ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #83 *****************************