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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: "A superb horror story"
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:41:29 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.books
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University


     Wandering aimlessly through a used-book store the other
day, I found an old book with an intriguing cover.  On the
front was one simple testimonal: 

          "A superb horror story"
		    - The New Yorker

     On the back cover:

	  "Have you ever seen one? ... What did it look like?"
	  "They don't come out in the day?"
	  "All such things dread the sun."

     It goes on to say (on the back cover):

	   "At first he is puzzled by  the cattlemen's fear
	     of the dark.  Then he learns that they are afraid
	     of elusive dwarfs who are supposed to dance among
	     the trees by moonlight.  A rationalist and a scientist,
	     Dawnay resolves to confront the unknown; but he will
	     finally realize that he has entered a region beyond
	     reason - the twilit terrain of nightmare...."

     Sounds like a Stephen King sort of thing, huh?  It is not.  I
think it may just be the best horror story I ever read.  

   		"Dance of the Dwarfs"
			by Geoffrey Household

John

--
"...There's no time.  The nuclear reactor will blow any minute.  I'll have to modify
 the kernel on the fly."   Mitty slid into the analyst's chair and calmly began
 displaying memory locations, changing some of them.  The others watched in
 awe.  The nuclear reactor ominously went "pocketa, pocketa, pocketa..."
From: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F. Jacot Guillarmod)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Books by Hunter S. Thompson
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:39:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Jul26.213919.26058
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Does anyone have a list of books by the good Dr.?  I'm aware of "The
Great Shark Hunt" and one on the Hells Angels, but any info on others
(including publisher or ISBN) would be welcome.

Thanks.
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From: zeleny@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Unspoken Words
Summary: the gerbil can type!
Keywords: Party games?
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:39:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Jul30.223907.14340
Followup-To: alt.sex.bestiality.hamster.duct.tape
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

>Rita Marie Rouvalis writes:

>>	h.) whenever "Rand" appears in Subject: line.
>>	m.) when Clayton crossposts from a .politics group

Susan Gere writes:

>O all right, I was leaving out the truly distasteful features of
>the group.  We must more recently add:
>
>	n.) zeleny crossposts to six wildly unrelated groups
>	    in a desperate attempt to obtain an audience

Actually, it is:
	n.) zeleny crossposts to three wildly unrelated groups
	    in a desperate attempt to conceal his dark design

>...but if we allow this sort of thing, we must instantly switch
>to Darjeeling if anyone is to remain conscious.

Nice to hear from you, Ms Gere.  Give my felicitations to Richard on
the occasion of your successful extraction from his nether parts.

desperately,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
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From: fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster)
Subject: Re: Or Shakespeare either (was: I don't like Dickens...so sue me!
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:35:00 GMT

Francis writes:
>...OceanStar -- Stella Maris to us afficionadi --  was your real name.
> Webster is merely a cultural conceit.

Mark writes:
>When Fiona finally publishes her book, it will be revealed to all
>that her real name is Babette.

OK, y'all, I feel warm and fuzzy now.  'Got some of it stuck on my
tongue, too--bleah.  Meanwhile, back at the ranch, since y'all might
wonder if I didn't say anything: I'm goin' on vacation for five weeks.

						--ta ta,

							Fiona Oceanstar
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From: grady@public.BTR.COM ( )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:02:08 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

In the tradition of post Pensee reasoning,
God will surely forgive us for becoming atheists
because s/he surely realizes how silly s/he seems
to a person with any brains...



-- 
Views expressed are not those of the National Security Agency
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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Subject: Re: Great last sentences
Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:40:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.133201.12506@newstand.syr.edu> dmpowell@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Darin M. Powell) writes:

>	To bad Dickens never met Mr. Strunk.

I'm admirer of Strunk and White. But I strongly suspect that people will
be reading Dickens long after Mr. Strunk has been forgotten.


--Mike



-- 
Mike Godwin,     |"Of the many definitions of poetry, the   
mnemonic@eff.org | simplest is still the best: 'memorable speech.'" 
(617) 864-0665   | 
EFF, Cambridge   |                     --W.H. Auden
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Great last sentences
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:34:04 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Jul20.173118.28622@pbhyc.PacBell.COM>, djdaneh@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes) writes:
> In article <l+bm!6.troach@netcom.com> troach@netcom.com (Tom Roach) writes:
> There are zillions of short stories that have "great" shock final sentences like
> the Bates, especially in SF.  In a short story, that's easy, and often cheap.  
> (I grant that the Bates story was not cheap.)  When it's cheap, it often turns 
> out that the entire story exists only for the sake of providing the shock value
> for the last line.  Roger Zelazny sometimes falls into this trap for an entire
> chapter of some of his best novels ("Then the fit hit the Shan.")
> 
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, Net.Roach

Better than the final sentence of _1984_, is the final sentence of
Arthur C. Clarke's _The Star_.  I dare not tell you that last sentence,
because it explains the suffering of the Jesuit astronomer who tells
us the story, and utterly shocks the reader's sensibilities -- and
in a way utterly unexpected.

It's also one of the examples of Clarke's mastery of the short
first person narrative.  There is no other current writer that I
think manages to make such a story more convincing.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"Well, maybe the Holocaust was right *for that culture*." -- a moral relativist
with whom I work.
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From: dmpowell@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Darin M. Powell)
Subject: Re: Great last sentences
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:46:09 EDT

In article <1992Jul25.004004.4137@eff.org> Mike Godwin writes:

>In article <1992Jul23.133201.12506@newstand.syr.edu> dmpowell@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Darin M. Powell) writes:
>
>>	To bad Dickens never met Mr. Strunk.
>
>I'm admirer of Strunk and White. But I strongly suspect that people will
>be reading Dickens long after Mr. Strunk has been forgotten.
>

	Too bad.

	Darin Powell
	Syracuse University
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:20:58 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <84348@netnews.upenn.edu>, rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes:
> In article <1992Jul24.164931.142181@cs.cmu.edu> rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva) writes:
> >Anyway, here's the obligatory anecdote (for the benefit of rec.humor): Some
> >philosopher/theologician, when questioned as to whether he believes in God,
> >replied, [paraphrased] ``Either God exists or He doesn't.  Either I believe in
> >God or I don't.  Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage.
> >To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.''
> 
> This sounds like Pascal, who argued that belief in God was the way to bet.
> Unfortunately, there are two flaws in this reasoning:
>    1) Belief in God may carry disadvantages, e.g. you may avoid doing things
> that you would otherwise enjoy.

Yes, things that you would have to give up that you might enjoy:

1. screwing everything that moves, and getting:
   a. AIDS;
   b. killed by a jealous spouse;
   c. developing some less lethal STD.

2. murdering people, and losing out on:
   a. maybe getting killed in self-defense;
   b. spending the rest of your life in jail.

3. not taking care of your kids, and losing out on:
   a. the chance to see them grow up healthy and well-adjusted;
   b. the chance to spend much of your life fighting child support
      payment hearings.

All sorts of great pleasures are foregone with this approach. :-)

>    Robert


-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"Well, maybe the Holocaust was right *for that culture*." -- a moral relativist
with whom I work.
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From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires)
Subject: Re: Dickens vs. Twain
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:44:34 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <6742@charon.cwi.nl> frankt@cwi.nl (Frank Teusink) writes:
>>rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:
>
>I've red "Great Expectations" and "David Copperfield", and liked them both.
>I'm likely to read other titles of him in the future (any recommendations?).

	Be sure to look at _The Woman in White_ by Wilkie Collins.
	Dickens and he were friends, and I really liked this novel.

>I've tried to read "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", but got
>stuck at about one-third of the book. I'd probably like the movie if they'd
>make one (does one exist?),

	There's a cartoon version they play on thanksgiving :).
	I haven't read this one myself.

>... Furthermore, if there is some other book of
>M. Twain I should read, then tell me.

	There are so many, I don't know where to start.
	Puddnhead Wilson, The Prince and the Pauper, the
	Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn books were all good.
	I recall especially liking Sawyer when young
	(lost in the cave with Becky! -- great stuff; Injun Joe!!).
	The short stories (Hadleyburg, etc.) are must reads,
	and there is a very good novelette about the devil
	that for the life of me I can't recall the name
	(The Perfect Stranger, the Unknown Stranger??).
	I better look them over again myself.

>
>Frank Teusink.

Roger Squires
rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu
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From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: Bathroom reading
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:37:52 GMT

> mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto) writes:
>> betsyp@apollo.hp.com (Betsy Perry) writes (of M.F.K.Fisher):

>> I like her translation of Brillat-Savarin; it's the ideal
>> back-of-the-toilet book, amenable to non-chronological and
>> interrupted reading.
>
>I've always found Eliot's THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK to be
>the perfect length for a shit.

"Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior" fits
Betsy's definition.
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From: adam@zooid.guild.org (Adam Lawrence Salter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: I want info on "Jeffrey Norton" Publishers, NY, NY
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:33:21 GMT


  Does anyone know anything about what is or used to be Jeffrey Norton
Publishers in New York? I mean phone number, address (email address?), etc.


  Please reply by *E-mail* to adam@zooid.guild.org as I DON'T read this group!

                                                                        adam


     "Thank-you vera much." 
 
 
                           -Elvis 


adam@zooid.guild.org
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Ahasuerus
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:24:49 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Jul26.074606.21036@Princeton.EDU>, mikulska@astro.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska) writes:
> In article <m=kmrd_@lynx.unm.edu> rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) writes:
> >Who is Ahasuerus?  There is no entry in 
> >the Smaller Classical Dictionary, nor in the
> >back of the Webster's Unabridged, so 
> >I'm confident someone here will know.
> 
> Ahasuerus or the Wandering Jew - a personnage from a mediaeval Christian
> legend, condemned to wander without rest until the Day of Judgement, for
> having ridiculed Christ on his way to the cross.  The Wandering Jew
> appears in various variants of the legend under different names, of
> which Ahasuerus is the most often encountered.
> 
> -Margaret

Does anyone remember a short story written some years back, nominally
sci-fi, about a couple of insurance company investigators trying to
figure out why medieval and Renaissance Crucifixion masterpieces were
being stolen?  They finally find out that Ahasuerus is still running
around, repainting his image in all of them so that he isn't ridiculing
Christ in the paintings.

It was one of those bizarre sci-fi/fantasy combos that I dislike in
principle, but frequently like in practice.


-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"Well, maybe the Holocaust was right *for that culture*." -- a moral relativist
with whom I work.
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From: betsyp@apollo.hp.com (Betsy Perry)
Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted for M.F.K.Fisher's books
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:43:38 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA


I like her translation of Brillat-Savarin; it's the ideal
back-of-the-toilet book, amenable to non-chronological and
interrupted reading.
                                    
-- 
Betsy Hanes Perry   (note P in userid)     betsyp@apollo.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Company
"It seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are
considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction."
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From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Subject: Re: Robertson Davies
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:16:03 GMT

Mark Taranto writes:

	Crawford Kilian writes (of Davies):

		Everyone sounds like a damn U of T academic, and it 
		becomes increasingly hard, therefore, to take him 
		seriously.

	I never knew of this rivalry between Western Canadian academics
	and those damn U of T academics.  (and besides, none of Davies' 
	characters sound like Texans :-)

Kilian wrote "U of T", not "UT". I took it that he was refering to the
University of Toronto.

							Fido
From: bhahn@sw.stratus.com (Bill Hahn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Graham Greene
Keywords: Greene, travel, Liberia
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:46:04 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

A small classic of travel writing is "Journey Without Maps" by Greene
about his trek through Liberia in 1937.  (Available as a Penguin paperback.)
Does anybody know if his cousin Barbara wrote an account of the same journey? -

-- 
Bill Hahn               bhahn@sw.stratus.com
Stratus Computer        "No matter what you can do, it can
Marlboro, MA, USA        be ignored."  - T. Kincaid
--------- These are my opinions and not necessarily those of Stratus.------
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From: fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster)
Subject: Re: Or Shakespeare either (was: I don't like Dickens...so sue me!
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:29:01 GMT

Mark Taranto writes:
>The SubGenius (who I wish would write under a REAL name) writes:

Gee, Mark, you never said that to a certain F. Oceanstar.

						--still unREAL,

							Spider Woman
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Identify this story/quote/poem?
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:10:16 GMT
Reply-To: craigb@ot.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com


Can anyone help me identify the following story?

Two people are walking on the beach. One finds a live clam
that has washed ashore, picks it up and throws it back into
the ocean. The other person says "There's an awful lot of
clams washed up on this beach; no way you can save them all."
To which the first person replies "I may not be able to save
them all, but I made a difference in this one clam's life."

Am not sure if it's a story or a poem or one of those 
inspirational things you see on plaques or what. Anyone
know who wrote it and where I can find the exact text?

Thanks!

Craig

-- "Again," she said.             Craig Becker, Object Technology Products --
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-- "Again," she said.             Craig Becker, Object Technology Products --
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,alt.books.reviews
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: RAH
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:58:56 GMT

mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin) writes:
}ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk (John Franks) writes:
}>While RAH has come up (and by the way, sorry if I missed anything along this
}>line - I just spotted this group), I found a novel called "Farnham's Freehold"

}I read Farnham's Freehold a long time ago, and liked it.  The plot is nicely
}worked out, tight, and interesting.  For some reason, it was never very
}popular.  

Another of my favorite RAH from the early days is _Tunnel in the Sky_ ('55).
It is another of the [re-]build your world theme.  And he manages to tell the
story in only 253 pages (hardly looks like it belongs with the rest of 'em :)

John
-- 
John Hascall                                       ``Live with it pink-boy!''
Project Vincent                                                              
Iowa State University Computation Center                     john@iastate.edu
Ames, IA  50011                                      515/294-9551 [fax -1717]
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From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.humor,alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:58:26 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Jul24.075717.104265@zeus.calpoly.edu> rcasey@zeus.calpoly.edu (Rosalie J Casey) writes:
>>
>>Let's not forget the Apatheists.  We don't know and we don't really care.

Please can I join?

The Wisp.
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:13:03 GMT

jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
: >>
: >>NOT Isaac!  He's up there raising H*** with someone!
: >>
: > 
: > Ah, a-hem, that would be *down* there.
: 
: But do atheists _go_ anywhere when they die?
 
I would not say that he was an atheist. More correctly, he just did not
accept any "Devine text" as literal truth. 

Bill
From: mtaranto@shearson.com (Mark Taranto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: The Writings of Socrates
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:55:43 GMT
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway


egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:

> The "writings of Socrates" was infelicitous since Plato recorded these
> dialogs.  However, Derrida problematizes the entire relationship of the
>two thinkers; at one and the same time, we want Socrates to be the
>author of the dialogs AND we desire him not to be sullied with the act
>of writing.  Sort of like the aliterate faculty heavy who has his
>graduate students do his papers, or the senior corporate type who won't
>learn email.  Derrida psychoanalyzes this contradictory desire as
>central to Western metaphysics, and it surfaces in the net in the form
>of hysterical flames re who "said" what on a written medium.

But I would never claim that Socrates is the author of the dialogues,
nor do I remember this claim being made in any of the books I read
in my Plato class.

It is certainly true that Plato was influenced by his teacher, Socrates.
It might also be true that Socrates expounded upon many of the things that
Plato writes.  But for the most part Plato is setting forth his own
views in the dialogues.

In his later years, Plato was heavily influenced by his student, Aristotle.
His later writings reflect this incluence, yet Plato's thoughts still came
through the character of Socrates.

Plato's dialogues are no more the writings of Socrates than Tom Stoppard's
play TRAVESTIES is the work of James Joyce.

Mark
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From: adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.humor,alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:44:01 GMT
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY

In article <Brun1F.I7o@world.std.com> lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
>	So,  has anyone one had a FOAF healed by a faith healer?  Or has  
>anyone had a FOAF die after throwing away their insulin after visting
>a faith healer.


 Well, this may be confusing between Religious healing/faith healing, but
there was a court case a number of years ago that dealt with a religious
family being prosecuted for negelect of their child. Apparently, when
the child developed intestinal discomfort, the parent's course of action
was to pray for their son's health. Of course, nothing good came out of it,
and the child's condition got worse. Eventually, the authorities came in, took
the child to the hospital. The child was suffering from a twisted intestine,
not serious in the early stages, but deadly if left untreated. In the child's
case it was too late to do anything, and he died from the infection the blocked
up wastes caused.
 The parents were arrested on charges of negelect, but the case was complicated
since the seperation of church and state came into play, and to the fact that
the parents were upstanding citizens except for their kooky medical beliefs.
 I don't know for sure what the outcome of the case was, but I do believe they
spent some years in jail.

 Mabye I shouldn't be to harsh on these guys. It must save a fortune on
medical insurace, such as it is in the US.

 No sources or anything, but this is AFU. Whaddya want?

                                                      Derrick
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From: wismith@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William R. Smith)
Subject: Re: Zorba the Greek
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 18:44:36 GMT

Frank D'onofrio writes:
 
	> I would just like to hear from anyone who has read ZtG. Tell me
	> what you thought about it, what you got from it, etc. 



I absolutely loved it.  Its now been about 20 years since I read it
and its time for a rereading.  I recommend it to people who I feel
have enough time living with another person (not their parents or
siblings) to relate the characters and are receptive to new ideas.

Its one of my all time favorites.  I tried to read Kazanzokis' 
"The Last Temptation of Christ" after reading Zorba, and couldn't
get into it.



William Sburgfort Smith
Intel, SSD