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

[Joe Smulkstis]

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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> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:33:25 -0400
> From: Josh Young <greatoaktree at gmail.com>
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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
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> --- Andy Robertson <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk> wrote:
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>> He perpetrates filks?   This is problematic  ;-)
>
> I think he was one of the original instigators of the
> movement.
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> Midori/Sarah
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> 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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