(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 12

[Maru Dubshinki]

Use the Wiki... The Wiki is, err, sticky to knowledge. Let some of
that knowledge stick to you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music

Incidentally, there's a baby article on tBotNS that could use some
work, if anyone would like to volunteer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun

~Maru

On 6/12/05, Joe Smulkstis <jismulkstis at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I've been reading science fiction for 40 years.  I've been to conventions.
> I've got some idea of what "filksinging" is and my instincts have led me to
> avoid it.
> 
> However, I have no bloody idea what a "filk" actually is.  Can some kind
> or condescending soul define it for me?
> 
> Muskrat
> 
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> >   1.  Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11 (Josh Young)
> >   2. Re: SV: (urth) cthulhu mythos, BotNS (Sarah Dorrance-Minch)
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> > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:33:25 -0400
> > From: Josh Young <greatoaktree at gmail.com>
> > Subject: (urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11
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> > In regards to the difference between the simulators, I sort of just
> > chalked that conversation up to SF conventions; I pretty much knew the
> > answer before Mr. Million provided it. However, dumb me, now that I
> > think about it, nothing's ever that simple with Wolfe, is it?
> > Interesting train of thought, there; could it be that #5 and father
> > are bound simulators? In addition to clones? Cyborg clone/simulators?
> > Maybe the expirements #5's father performed on him involved installing
> > a bound personality, hence the periods of increasing amnesia?
> >
> > Also, did anyone notice the similarity between the description of the
> > ghoul-bear and the alzabo? I'm trying to remember if the alzabo had
> > man-like eyes of beast-like eyes; my friend has my copy of the New Sun
> > books. But I also seem to remember the alzabo digging up corpses and
> > eating them.--
> > ~Josh
> > _____________________________________
> > "Fear is the mind killer" - Frank Herbert's Dune
> > "If you want to get warm, you must stand near the fire. If you want to
> > be wet, you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace,
> > eternal life, you must get close to... the thing that has them. They
> > are not the sort of prize that God....[would].... just hand out to
> > anyone." - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
> > "Mortal love is merely our introduction to the immortal" - Margaret
> > Weis & Tracy Hickman's The Seventh Gate
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> > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:38:22 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Sarah Dorrance-Minch <isobelwren at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: SV: (urth) cthulhu mythos, BotNS
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> > --- Andy Robertson <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> He perpetrates filks?   This is problematic  ;-)
> >
> > I think he was one of the original instigators of the
> > movement.
> >
> >
> >
> > Midori/Sarah
> >
> > Ah, love couldst thou and I conspire/ To grasp this sorry scheme of things
> > entire/ Would we not break it all to bits, and then/ Remold it nearer to
> > the heart's desire - Omar Khayyam
> >
> > Reach me a gentian, give me a torch
> > let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
> > down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness.
> > - D.H. Lawrence, "Bavarian Gentians"
> >
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