), and then I hope to settle down and concentrate on this a bit more.
>I am hoping that by then, enough time will have passed since the
>NeuNeutopian war and the Tea Party/Poly's Porch events, that it will be
>possible to see them more clearly -- I, for one, am curious to see what
>happened/is happening... if anything.
>
>I don't know how you feel about it, Lisa, but I wonder if enough new folks
>have joined alt.cyberpunk since this past summer to warrant a general
>posting of that site? Those events are referred to often enough that it
>might be good to at least skim through the writing, to get up to speed. I
>think it's great that you took the time to archive that material. I have
>tons, too, and I'm sure that a lot of others saved it, as well. (Whatever
>happened to the Archive idea Nesta? Maybe we should be thinking about
>this with a little concerted effort?)
Hmmm. Two reasons I haven't broadcast the site.
First, I wanted the authors to comment on the way I did the archiving,
which was to take all the postings in a particular Rancho thread and
then weave them together as one story/vingette (adding no new text,
just interleaving all the voices so they can be heard together rather
than sequentially with partial repititions). Why this way? Because _I_
like to read them this way. But although all the original words and
attributions are there, I would respect anyone who did not want their
post to appear in "adulterated" form.
Second, since the archive is set up as a group of linked web pages, I
was worried about the amount of traffic that might hit this site if I
broadcast it. (Buildly popular non-professional/academic sites is
frowned upon here).
>That "Gargoyle's Feast" is a *classic*. Just awesome. If I hadn't been
>in the middle of moving cross country then, I could have replied...
>Sourcerer is planning on re-posting it every Halloween, BTW.
Thank you. The vast silence after that was posted made me wonder a bit.
>Poly, who can't resist roofs, labors busily away in a workshed out back,
>extracting Hemlock oil for Sym, who's just as sweet as can be. Really.
>But Treats don't hurt, either... Burned in a pipe on a piece of rolling
>paper, it's one of his favorite vices... He especially enjoys smoking it
>and crouching on the roof in the snow, pretending to be made of stone,
>but moving so fast all the snowflakes seem to stand still. He looks at
>them as they hover there, glittering in the night, and they really *are*
>all different... and shine with a light all their own...
He's also _very_ fond of Peanut Butter & Brimstone.
Lisa
[ Seasonal Greetings to all, I *may* be away from machines the next few
weeks... Ack! Gasp! ]
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