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Books and the fate


Joseph Camp
Subject: Re: DG: EH Web-Site First Edition
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:42:35 -0800

I just got around to looking over the EH materials at the web site for the first time--interesting stuff!

One minor caveat: in the Fate book (which has gone to press and will ship out to all orders next week, if all goes well), the Fate's occult-tome holdings are extensively detailed. There may be some overlap between the tomes they already have and the tomes they're seeking in EH. It's easy enough to resolve, of course--even different editions of the same work can be desirable, as can copies that are hand-annotated by someone or other--but I thought I should let you folks know of this very minor speed bump in what looks to be an excellent process.

be seeing you,
Alphonse


The Man in Black
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:37:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: DG: EH Web-Site First Edition
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Joseph Camp wrote:
> I just got around to looking over the EH materials at the web site for > the first time--interesting stuff!
On behalf of the EH crew, I would like to say, "Screw you, Copper! You'll never take us alive!" but I won't :)

> One minor caveat: in the Fate book (which has gone to press and will ship
> out to all orders next week, if all goes well), the Fate's occult-tome
> holdings are extensively detailed. There may be some overlap between the
> tomes they already have and the tomes they're seeking in EH. It's easy
> enough to resolve, of course--even different editions of the same work
> can be desirable, as can copies that are hand-annotated by someone or
> other--but I thought I should let you folks know of this very minor speed
> bump in what looks to be an excellent process.
That's nothing to worry about. Let's see, we could:

1) ignore the problem and hope it goes away "Fate chapbook? Never heard of it." (nonchalantly kicks copy under the refrigerator, among the freon-fed dust bunnies and ozone-depleted coleopterans)

2) The Fate had a bad fiscal year and has to sell off all it's tomes to make the budget. "Whaddya mean there's no Christmas party this year? Sorry, we're auctioning off the office furniture that day."

3) Waldo Tusticle, Lord of Overdue Library Books, checks out a few key tomes and gleefully defects to the Cult of Trancendance:

(Alzis): "Bring me the Necronomicon!"

(Belial): "Uhh... we don't have a Necronomicon anymore."

(Merriweather): "How embarrassing... This sucks!"

(Darryl): "Wait guys! Here's the Simon version!"

(All but Darryl together): "GROAN~!"

4) Unexplained Spontaneous Bibiliographic Combustion

5) Damn those termites!

6) One day, The Fate's books become animated and start flying around biting people like in that Army of Darkness movie; then they all head south for the winter.

7) All of the Above!

But seriously, folks: I think a neat thing to do is to let each author drop hints about this incongruity with a totally different and conflicting idea for each chapter. Let the investigators blow SAN on the concept.

The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins


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