From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) RE: Digest urth.v030.n200
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:24:48 -0800 (PST)


--- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <ddanehy@siebel.com> wrote:
> > >Oh--any hints on where in TBotSS I should look for the history by the
> guy
> > >from Chicago?  I have only a vague memory of that.
> 
> > "In addition [to Scleroderma's account], there was a man in
> Urbasecundus
> > who was said to have produced a similar book, although I had never
> seen
> it."
> 
> Slow learner department: It suddenly hit me that the "man in
> Urbasecundus"
> is Gene Wolfe, and the "similar book" is _his_ text of the BotLS.
> 
> Duh.

Well, at least it hit you without your being told.  I didn't get it even
with Mantis's hint (Chicago).  What I e-mailed to Brian the Invisible
Librarian was that it was presumably about Urbs, but I think I should
correct that.  Maybe just

Pseudo-Author: a man from Urbasecundus
Pseudo-Title: unknown
Comments: another history of the same events

-- 
Jerry Friedman

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