In this issue:
Off-Topic: Be A Kid Again
Gotham
Statues of Authors
Plaques & Statues
Sara Teasdale's papers
Re: Plaques & Statues
Re: Plaques & Statues
RE: Plaques & Statues
(?) Bierce and Poe
Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming
Today in History - June 15
Re: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming
Re: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming
RE: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming
RE: Owl Creek
RE: Owl Creek
Etext avail: George Ade's fables
Re: Owl Creek
Re: Owl Creek
RE: Plaques & Statues
New guessing game on Gaslight
New guessing game on Gaslight -Reply
From fastest gun to fleetest feet
Re: Off-Topic: Be A Kid Again
Re: (?) Bierce and Poe
Guessing game continues on Gaslight
Dickens' Hunted Down
Owl Creek
Owl Creek and time
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:47:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Off-Topic: Be A Kid Again
If you're not still doing at least some of these things, call the local
funeral parlor--you are in need of a hearse.
Bob C.
BE A KID AGAIN...
~ Give yourself a gold star for everything you do
today.
~ Dot all your "i"'s with smiley faces.~ Sing into your
hairbrush.
~ Grow a milk mustache.~ Smile back at the man in
the moon.
~ Read the funnies--throw the rest of the paper
away.~ Dunk your cookies.
~ Play a game where you make up the rules as you
go along.
~ Order with eyes that are bigger than your
stomach.
~ Open a pack of cupcakes and give one to a friend
even though you wanted both of them for yourself.
~ Step carefully over sidewalk cracks.
~ Change into some play clothes.
~ Try to get someone to trade you a better
sandwich.
~ Have a staring contest with your cat.~ Eat ice
cream for breakfast.
~ Kiss a frog, just in case.
~ Give someone a "hug-around-the-neck."
~ Blow the wrapper off a straw.
~ Refuse to eat crusts.
~ Make a face the next time somebody tells you "no."
~ Watch TV in your pajamas.
~ Ask "Why?" a lot
~ Have someone read you a story.
~ Eat dessert first.
~ Wear your favorite shirt with your favorite pants
even if they don'tmatch.
~ Sneak some frosting off a cake.
~ Refuse to back down in a "did vs. did-not argument."
~ Do a cartwheel.
~ Get someone to buy you something you don't really need.
~ Hide your vegetables under your napkin.
~ Stay up past your bedtime.
~ Whatever you're doing, stop once in a while for recess.
~ Wear red gym shoes.
~ Make a "slurpy" sound with your straw when you
get to the bottom of a milkshake.
~ Put way too much sugar on your cereal.
~ Play a song you like really loud, over and over.
~ Find some pretty stones and save them.
~ Let the string all the way out on your kite.
~ Walk barefoot in wet grass.
~ Make cool screeching noises every time you turn
a corner.
~ Count the colors in a rainbow.
~ Fuss a little, then take a nap.
~ Take a running jump over a big puddle.
~ Eat dinner at the coffee table.
~ Giggle a lot for no real reason.
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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: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:05:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ginger Johnson <ferret(at)eskimo.com>
Subject: Gotham
Apart from the fact that it's almost too heavy to read comfortably, what I
read of Gotham I liked very well. It's certainly worth buying.
Also, a propos of Bob Champ's question regarding a statue of Bierce in San
Francisco, I am led to wonder how many statues of authors there are in the
United States. In my more cynical moments I wonder if there are any.
Ginger Johnson
"It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
- Somerville and Ross
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:23:15 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Statues of Authors Well, there are lots of statues of Mark Twain about, including a lovely one in Hannibal. There are several statues of Ulysses Grant, who was a fine writer himself. Let's see, I know of statues of Longfellow and busts of Alcott, and there are statues of Shakespeare everywhere! We have a nice one in a park here. The same park has a statue of Christopher Columbus (also an author) and Alexander von Humboldt, whose writings are interesting, if abstruse. There's also a statue of Robert Burns on the University campus, and there are statues of Thomas Jefferson all over the place. Kiwi
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:23:32 -0700
From: "Jesse F. Knight" <jknight(at)internetcds.com>
Subject: Plaques & Statues
> Also, a propos of Bob Champ's question regarding a statue of Bierce in San
> Francisco, I am led to wonder how many statues of authors there are in the
> United States. In my more cynical moments I wonder if there are any.
A number of years ago a group of us were active in having plaques
honoring writers put up in San Francisco and the area. We put up plaques
honoring the San Francisco poet George Sterling, the writer Gertrude
Atherton, and in Auburn, California, the poet-short story writer Clark
Ashton Smith. All in all, San Francisco has a pretty fair record of plaques
honoring literary characters. I remember plaques for A. Conan Doyle and for
Hammett's _The Maltese Falcon_.
Last fall, when I was in New York, I took a small O. Henry trek around
Grammercy Park. I noticed two plaques--one at a restaurant at which O.
Henry ate regularly and the other at what was once his home (now a
restaurant, too). Ironically, in a touch I think O. Henry would have
chuckled over, both plaques announced that was the location where O. Henry
wrote _Gift of the Magi_.
However, compared to England and France, we do little to publicly honor
our poets, writers and other artists.
Jesse F. Knight
> Ginger Johnson
>
> "It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
> - Somerville and Ross
>
>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:48:54 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Sara Teasdale's papers Do any of you have any idea where Sara Teasdale's papers are? Someone asked me whether they are in St. Louis, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There are SOME at Columbia, but it doesn't look like a significant collection. Kiwi Carlisle carlislc(at)psychiatry.wustl.edu
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:02:01 -0400
From: "John D. Squires" <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Plaques & Statues
In April 1990 I attended dedication ceremonies held at Olin Library,
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. A new library had recently been
built, the A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse Shiel collection was being formally
accepted by the college, and Dr. Bruce English of the Poe Museum in
Richmond was there to donate a life size copy of a striking bust of Poe.
The bust is still on prominent display near the entrance of the library. I have
a photo I can scan & e-mail to anyone who may be interested. I presume the
original bust is at the Poe Museum in Richmond.
Best in haste,
John Squires
Jesse F. Knight wrote:
> > Also, a propos of Bob Champ's question regarding a statue of Bierce in San
> > Francisco, I am led to wonder how many statues of authors there are in the
> > United States. In my more cynical moments I wonder if there are any.
>
> A number of years ago a group of us were active in having plaques
> honoring writers put up in San Francisco and the area. We put up plaques
> honoring the San Francisco poet George Sterling, the writer Gertrude
> Atherton, and in Auburn, California, the poet-short story writer Clark
> Ashton Smith. All in all, San Francisco has a pretty fair record of plaques
> honoring literary characters. I remember plaques for A. Conan Doyle and for
> Hammett's _The Maltese Falcon_.
>
> Last fall, when I was in New York, I took a small O. Henry trek around
> Grammercy Park. I noticed two plaques--one at a restaurant at which O.
> Henry ate regularly and the other at what was once his home (now a
> restaurant, too). Ironically, in a touch I think O. Henry would have
> chuckled over, both plaques announced that was the location where O. Henry
> wrote _Gift of the Magi_.
>
> However, compared to England and France, we do little to publicly honor
> our poets, writers and other artists.
>
> Jesse F. Knight
>
> > Ginger Johnson
> >
> > "It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the economies."
> > - Somerville and Ross
> >
> >
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:14:51 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Plaques & Statues Oh, if it's plaques you want, come to the St. Louis Walk of Fame. We have artists, writers, conductors, architects, and scientists, along with the typical actors, politicians and sports figures. There are plaques for Sara Teasdale, Kate Chopin, T. S. Eliot, Mona Van Duyn, Stanley Elkin (ick), William Clark (of Lewis and Clark), and many others. Any day or evening, you'll find people strolling on the sidwalk and stopping to get a little St. Louis history lesson. Kiwi
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:14:57 -0400 From: "Marcella, Michelle E" <MMARCELLA(at)PARTNERS.ORG> Subject: RE: Plaques & Statues Here in Boston there is a plaque to Poe, noting the spot of the home in which he was born. Unfortunately, the land now houses the Four Seasons Hotel, and unless you are looking for the spot, it is difficult to find. And of course, there are others -- Longfellow, Alcott, Thoreau -- I haven't really had much of a chance to look for statues, though. Michelle Marcella mmarcella(at)partners.org > -----Original Message----- > From: John D. Squires [SMTP:jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 3:02 PM > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Re: Plaques & Statues > > In April 1990 I attended dedication ceremonies held at Olin Library, > Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. A new library had recently > been > built, the A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse Shiel collection was being > formally > accepted by the college, and Dr. Bruce English of the Poe Museum in > Richmond was there to donate a life size copy of a striking bust of > Poe. > The bust is still on prominent display near the entrance of the > library. I have > > a photo I can scan & e-mail to anyone who may be interested. I > presume the > original bust is at the Poe Museum in Richmond. > Best in haste, > John Squires > > > Jesse F. Knight wrote: > > > > Also, a propos of Bob Champ's question regarding a statue of > Bierce in San > > > Francisco, I am led to wonder how many statues of authors there > are in the > > > United States. In my more cynical moments I wonder if there are > any. > > > > A number of years ago a group of us were active in having > plaques > > honoring writers put up in San Francisco and the area. We put up > plaques > > honoring the San Francisco poet George Sterling, the writer Gertrude > > Atherton, and in Auburn, California, the poet-short story writer > Clark > > Ashton Smith. All in all, San Francisco has a pretty fair record of > plaques > > honoring literary characters. I remember plaques for A. Conan Doyle > and for > > Hammett's _The Maltese Falcon_. > > > > Last fall, when I was in New York, I took a small O. Henry trek > around > > Grammercy Park. I noticed two plaques--one at a restaurant at which > O. > > Henry ate regularly and the other at what was once his home (now a > > restaurant, too). Ironically, in a touch I think O. Henry would > have > > chuckled over, both plaques announced that was the location where O. > Henry > > wrote _Gift of the Magi_. > > > > However, compared to England and France, we do little to > publicly honor > > our poets, writers and other artists. > > > > Jesse F. Knight > > > > > Ginger Johnson > > > > > > "It isn't the extravagances of life we regret, it's the > economies." > > > - Somerville and Ross > > > > > > > >
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:22:32 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: (?) Bierce and Poe I was simply testing Bibliofind this afternoon, and came across the following curious title: >Hall, Carroll D.: BIERCE AND THE POE HOAX ; San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1934. Does anyone know what the Poe hoax was? Stephen D. mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:26:56 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming
We've talked about a pair of 1960's filmings of Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge", but has anyone seen Charles Vidor's _The bridge_ (1932) (a.k.a.
_The spy_), apparently a silent film.
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:36:22 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - June 15
1836
Arkansas is admitted as the 25th state in the Union.
1846
Great Britain and the United States agree on mutual occupation
of Oregon Territory.
1849
James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States, dies.
1862
General J.E.B. Stuart completes his ride around McClellan's
army.
1864
The Battle for Petersburg begins as Union forces probe the
Confederate line.
1866
Prussia attacks Austria.
1877
Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate
from West Point.
1898
The U.S. House of Representatives approves annexation of Hawaii.
1916
Boy Scouts of America are incorporated by President Woodrow
Wilson.
1917
Great Britain promises the release of all Irish captured during
the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
Birthdays
1902
Erik Erickson, Danish-born psychologist, author of _Childhood
and Society_.
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:48:26 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming No, I haven't. but I "hear" the story as silent. only the creak of the rope goes thru the entire story to the end. swinging back, and forth, and back... Linda Anderson whose 90 year old mother informed her that there is a Bohemia Hall in Elkton, MD at the junction of Routes 40 and 213.n It is now the location of the special education dept of Cecil County. At 04:26 PM 06/15/1999 -0600, you wrote: >We've talked about a pair of 1960's filmings of Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl >Creek Bridge", but has anyone seen Charles Vidor's _The bridge_ (1932) (a.k.a. >_The spy_), apparently a silent film. > > Stephen D > mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca > >
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:30:18 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming >We've talked about a pair of 1960's filmings of Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl >Creek Bridge", but has anyone seen Charles Vidor's _The bridge_ (1932) (a.k.a. >_The spy_), apparently a silent film. Stephen, On that Bierce Appreciation site they listed this as one of the film versions. I think there was information on it but I have not been able to get back to this site (server busy or not accepting). Does anyone else have this trouble or what was that alternative web page? Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:46:10 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: Bierce's "Owl Creek": first filming Deborah wrote > > Stephen, > On that Bierce Appreciation site they listed this as one of the film > versions. I think there was information on it but I have not been able to > get back to this site (server busy or not accepting). Does anyone else > have this trouble or what was that alternative web page? > I'm having the same problem: Connection Refused. It's not that particular page, it's the whole site. By the way, tomorrow's Bloomsday. Cheers, Jim
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:01:55 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: Owl Creek Richard King wrote: > > > I had read "Owl Creek Bridge" (isn't it required reading in all high > > school English classes?) long ago, and I believe Bierce wasn't the only > writer to play with bitter, trickster endings. Didn't Borges (or was it > Updike) > > write a more modern take on this story with a concert violinist who is > > standing before a WWII Nazi firing squad and God gives him his last > > wish: to play the most beautiful music of his lifetime. Just as he > > finishes his music, he comes out of his daze and realizes he achieved > > his goal in his mind, just as the bullets strike his body? Does anyone > > remember this one? If so, doesn't it see like an "Owl Creek" version? A Borges story titled The Secret Miracle concerns a Czech writer named Hladik, who is writing a verse drama titled The Enemies when he is arrested by the secret police. Standing before the firing squad he prays for the year he needs to complete the play, which he feels will redeem him for his previously lackluster work. God grants him the year, which takes place in the space of a minute, during which the firing squad is immobilized. Hladik completes the work in his mind (redoing the third act twice!) before the time is up, the drop of sweat on his face continues to move and the firing squad plays its part. The story takes place in 1939, and was published in the Borges collection Artifices in 1944. Carpe diem! Cheers, Jim
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:27:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: RE: Owl Creek
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, James E. Kearman wrote:
> Richard King wrote:
> A Borges story titled The Secret Miracle concerns a Czech writer named
> Hladik, who is writing a verse drama titled The Enemies when he is arrested
> by the secret police. Standing before the firing squad he prays for the year
> he needs to complete the play, which he feels will redeem him for his
> previously lackluster work. God grants him the year, which takes place in
> the space of a minute, during which the firing squad is immobilized. Hladik
> completes the work in his mind (redoing the third act twice!) before the
> time is up, the drop of sweat on his face continues to move and the firing
> squad plays its part.
Interesting that the redemption exists only for the playwright and for
God. It is obvious that Hladik is a true artist who judges himself by his
inner integrity alone, i.e., he isn't interested in critical estimates or
book sales as indicators of his worth.
It is a great pity that Borges doesn't fall within our time range.
Bob C.
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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: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:34:31 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: George Ade's fables
From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 06/15/99 06:34 PM
To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject: Etext avail: George Ade's fables
(FABLMENU.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos)
George Ade's _Fables in slang_ (1899) and _More fables in slang_ (1900)
for Chuck D., who asked:
A sampling of George Ade's fables. The "Fool-Killer" was etexted by
Diana Patterson in Gaslight's early days, but is now illustrated.
from _Fables in slang_ (1899)
The Fable of How the Fool-Killer Backed Out of a Contract
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who was delayed
from _More fables in slang_ (1900)
The Fable of the Honest Money-Maker and the Partner of His Joys, Such as They
Were
The Fable of the Inveterate Joker who Remained in Montana
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get fableX19.hum
get fableX23.hum
get fableX29.hum
get fableX37.hum
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/fablmenu.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:47:45 -0400 (EDT) From: GargoyleMG(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Owl Creek Hi Jim When I was in school we did watch the " Twilight Zone " episode, " ....Owl Creek ". I must say, I only saw this episode once. But I could still tell you frame by frame what happened in this version. I don't believe that this was story had a trick ending. If you think about losing someone close to you, or if you listen to someone else's experience in losing a loved one the same theme is always going to be there. People feel cheated by death. You might say, " It's no fair, if she had left 3 minutes later that truck wouldn't have been there " or " It's not right, no one should lose a child ".... " What could he do? It runs in the family..." So in this story the hands of this man's loved one take him away and you FEEL cheated. He got away....how could this happen? I SAW him escape...it's not FAIR. And I'll tell you another thing, when I first saw this story and all these years later, I still think that this tale was told from Death's point of view. I'm not sure why. Any ideas? Anita
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:50:36 -0400
From: "John D. Squires" <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Owl Creek
I believe I may have quoted to Gaslight before Shiel's
tribute to Arthur Machen which is found in "The Purple
Cloud" (1901), "..:and I do not know that I ever
encountered aught so complimentary to my race as this
dead poet Machen, and his race with the cloud: for it is
clear now that the better of those poet men did not
write to please the vague inferior tribes who might
read them, but to deliver themselves of the divine
warmth that thronged in their bosom; and if all the
readers were dead, still they would have written;
and for God to read they wrote...." [page 206 of
Grant Richards edition.]
From an introduction to one of his collections,
it appears Borges was familiar at least with Shiel's
"Prince Zaleski". I don't know if Borges had read
"Cloud" [or had it read to him, was he always blind?],
but writing solely for the eyes of God is probably an
echo of the Art for Art's sake notions which so fired
the decedents.
Best in haste
John Squires
Robert Champ wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, James E. Kearman wrote:
>
> > Richard King wrote:
> > A Borges story titled The Secret Miracle concerns a Czech writer named
> > Hladik, who is writing a verse drama titled The Enemies when he is arrested
> > by the secret police. Standing before the firing squad he prays for the year
> > he needs to complete the play, which he feels will redeem him for his
> > previously lackluster work. God grants him the year, which takes place in
> > the space of a minute, during which the firing squad is immobilized. Hladik
> > completes the work in his mind (redoing the third act twice!) before the
> > time is up, the drop of sweat on his face continues to move and the firing
> > squad plays its part.
>
> Interesting that the redemption exists only for the playwright and for
> God. It is obvious that Hladik is a true artist who judges himself by his
> inner integrity alone, i.e., he isn't interested in critical estimates or
> book sales as indicators of his worth.
>
> It is a great pity that Borges doesn't fall within our time range.
>
> Bob C.
> _________________________________________________
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> Robert L. Champ
> rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
> Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
>
> Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
> lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
> there is any virtue and if there is anything
> praiseworthy, meditate on these things
> Philippians 4:8
>
> rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
> _________________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:12:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com> Subject: RE: Plaques & Statues Hi, This year, the Boston History Collaborative is running a Literary Trail tour through Boston, Cambridge and Concord, celebrating many writers from Massachusetts, particularly those from the nineteenth century: http://www.lit-trail.org/html/overview.html The online tour gives a taste of the various houses and libraries that will be covered. Donna Goldthwaite dgold(at)javanet.com
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:58:44 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: New guessing game on Gaslight
I've taken some graphics and mounted them as a guessing game on the Gaslight
website. I call the game "Look who's reading!", and it invites viewers to
submit their guess as to who is represented in the illustration.
The first respondent with the correct answer will be credited on the page,
and a new challenge will be mounted on the website. As each page has been
guessed, the number of pages available will increase.
I must warn you, tho, that I am at my worst when creating web graphics. Any
suggestions on how to improve them would be welcome.
The Gaslight website is at http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight
Stephen Davies
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:35:47 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <pteter(at)getty.edu> Subject: New guessing game on Gaslight -Reply Stephen writes: << I've taken some graphics and mounted them as a guessing game on the Gaslight website. I call the game "Look who's reading!", and it invites viewers to submit their guess as to who is represented in the illustration. The first respondent with the correct answer will be credited on the page...>> Great idea! This should be fun! Gaslight needs a bit of competition to get the blood going again. ;-) Of course, in the interest of equal opportunity, you have to announce the next game during the working day, when pathetic people such as myself have access to the Web. <grin> ...of course, my neighbor has web access.....gotta go! best regards, Patricia (who loves a good game)
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:31:03 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: From fastest gun to fleetest feet The local newspaper recently updated its readers on the recycling of the old _Unforgiven_ western set outside Calgary. from the _Calgary Herald_, 99-jun-04, p. F1 >"Ally star to film in area" > > Lucy Liu, who plays the abrasive sexy lawyer >Ling Woo on TV's _Ally McBeal_, has joined Jackie >Chan as his leading lady in the locally filmed >western _Shanghai noon_. Liu plays a Chinese princess who is kidnapped and brought to the Wild West of the 1870s. Chan is an imperial guard sent to rescue her. Liu has practiced martial "kick and knife stuff" since she growing up in Queens, N.Y. Shooting at the old _Unforgiven_/_Lonesome Dove: the series_ set will continue until 99-Aug-20. Does anyone know where the TV series _Dead man's gun_ is shot? I was told that is another Calgary production. Stephen D mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:15:00 -0500 From: ayc(at)ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Athan) Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Be A Kid Again >If you're not still doing at least some of these things, call the local >funeral parlor--you are in need of a hearse. Thanks for posting this, Bob--it was great. Now I know why people still call me 'childish'! I still do lots of those things! athan (just another 50-yr-old brat) ayc(at)uiuc.edu
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:40:24 -0500
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: (?) Bierce and Poe
Stephen, the back of my mind is telling me that there was a
notable forgery of Poe's works (a Raven one?) in the 1920's,
but I can't find anything on it on line.
Poe himself was fascinated by hoaxes, cf. his The Balloon Hoax,
and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
http://www.watershed.winnipeg.mb.ca/povaldemar.html
To quote this site:
"In 1845, first numerous American
periodicals and then journals in England, Germany, France
and Austria published the tale, most with the understanding
that it documented a fantastic but verifiable medical
experiment attended by reputable doctors and nurses in
Bronx, New York. The experiment was the mesmerizing of a
man moments from death. The objectives were to see if one
at the edge of death could be mesmerized, how the
condition
of death would effect mesmerization, and for how long a
period the process of Death might be halted through
mesmerization. The hoax of getting thousands to believe
that a
man had been suspended between life and death was
indeed
an accomplishment, but Poe seems to have accomplished
much more than an effective hoax."
Could the book in question be speculating that this Poe story
inspired Owl Creek?
Kiwi
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:12:11 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Guessing game continues on Gaslight
Thanks to Kay Douglas, who has already guessed the first reading puzzle and also
supplied some interesting background.
Another puzzle has now been mounted at http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight
Look for the duck on a book to open up the Look Who's Reading! page.
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:34:44 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <pteter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Dickens' Hunted Down The first story this week, "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens is an excellent tale full of the usual Dickensian harsh realities. I am not that familiar with Dickens' short fiction, however, I found the tale well written and chock-full of intriguing details and unusual avenues. Wilde's article "Pen, Pencil and Poison A Study in Green" is a fascinating study of the notion of poisoning for art's sake. That is, if art and beauty encompass an egregious crime such as thick ankles. I cannot decide what I liked best about this piece; Wainewright's story or Wilde's writing. Passages such as "He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals" or "Were this description carefully re-written, it would be quite admirable" are delightful. Stephen, this is a great combination! Thanks! best regards, Patricia
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:54:35 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Owl Creek I have been taking in only a little of the Owl Creek discussions, since I've been pretty busy with the music list startup stuff, but I wondered if anyone had mentioned that Dostoievsky was actually in front of a firing squad and thought he'd had it when there was a change of command. He later turned this into fiction somewhere -- I wish I could tell you where but Dostoievsky people must know. Anyhow Dostoievsky lived to tell the tale. His tale. I remember an Englishman, veteran of WWII who had done some espionage work in France, telling me some of his experiences getting back home, and that moment when individuals decided whether or not to trust you, or whether or not you might not be who you said you were. He expressed this as a sort of mystical thing, eye contact and human feeling being all at such moments. I haven't said it right but maybe it'll come through my botched efforts. Every contact was a risk on both sides. Carroll (cbishop(at)interlog.com)
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:12:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Owl Creek and time
I'm surprised, in our discussion of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,"
that no one has talked about how relative time is--not necesssarily in
the Einsteinian sense, but in our everyday lives. We all know that time
seems to pass very slowly when we are children and to speed up
considerably as we age. When we are having a "good" time, time positively
gallops, during "bad" times, when we are bored or sick or in pain, it
drags on interminably. We recognize that some people seem to have
mastered time: such and such a dance or an actor or athlete has a good
sense of timing, we say. Others are out-of-step, out-of-tune, and are
always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Indeed, the reason we wear
watches can be found in the inconstancy of our sense of time; in our
realization that our sense of time differs depending on age,
circumstances, and state of mind. We have a difficult time putting our
finger on what time is. Even so-called real or measured time, we know,
is primarily a function of the rate of speed at which our planet rotates
on its axis and itself revolves around the sun--a local phenomenon purely.
We really can't say, then, that Farquhar experiences a distortion of time,
even as we can't say that the mystic, who experiences "timeless moments"
(a delicious paradox of T. S. Eliot's, by the bye), has a distorted sense
of time: you can't distort something that is uncertain and amorphous
already. All that we can say is that he has an experience of time that is
different from but no less real than that of the soldiers standing on the
bridge. We can't even be sure that what he does during that time, visit
his wife once more before death, is unreal.
We are all living now in the aftermath of the big bang--which we think of
as having happened an impossibly long time ago. But that maybe because we
have a very provincial idea of time. It might be that for other
intelligences, the big bang--which we measure in millions of earth-years,
is only the matter of a moment.I have heard it said that time is God's
way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. That is said
as a joke; but given the Protean nature of time, it may very well be true.
Well, that's enough of this sophomoric chatter.
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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