From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: (urth) Severian
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:57:37 +0200

"Alice Turner" wrote:
> I went to the Catholic Encyclopedia- http://www.knight.org/advent/ - to see
> more about Severian, but the article has not yet been transcribed.
> 
> The transcription is done entirely by volunteers. If any of you has access
> to a university library with the CE (the site helpfully lists locations for
> you) and a scanner, you will build up merit in the next life by helping them
> out.

Oh, that's neat.  If you're a Protestant, and believe in justification
by faith alone, you don't need the merit, and don't get to transcribe
the Catholic Encyclopedia.

(Well, maybe GW would appreciate the joke.  I'm sure Borges would.)

croncrake

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