Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 08:53:27 -0500
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: Venus sans arms
From: Adam Stephanides 

on 5/7/02 6:54 PM, Michael Andre-Driussi at mantis@siriusfiction.com wrote:

> Intriguing notion! I haven't read much Lafferty, he exists in one of my
> blindspots, but it is possible.  APOCALYPSES, perhaps?

That would certainly be a prime candidate.  The first short novel in it,
"Where Have You Been, Sandaliotis," is about forgery and contains a Master
Forger.  But checking the most likely places (and it's been a long time
since I read it), I didn't find any reference to the Venus de Milo.  The
closest I found was a story told by the Master Forger about how he forged
the "Weeping Hermes of Praxiteles," a lost masterpiece of ancient Greek
sculpture, and then discovered the real sculpture and found it wasn't as
good as his forgery.

--Adam


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