Well, that message was forwarded to from the guy who does
Fantastic Metropolis after I wrote him asking him to forward
a message to Jack O'Connell, so I presume so..
Good hoax.
So, what book/s of Gil Brewer's should I read first, assuming
I could find them?
>From: "Rene Ribic" <
reneribic@bigpond.com>
>Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: James Loftus (message
from Jack O'Connell)
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:51:37 +1000
>
>As far as hoaxes go, I don't think you'd get a lot of
points for winding
>up us collector types. We're just too easy as targets
- we really want
>to believe. Man, I was so excited when I first read
the "article" -
>until I quickly ascertained that it was a hoax. That
was some months
>ago, at least but when it came up on this list I
suddenly got excited
>all over again, especially when "evidence" was
produced. The fact that
>I've wasted time on TWO occasions trying to discover
more about the
>apocryphal Mr Loftus just goes to show you how badly
we do want to
>believe. Oh, too cruel, too cruel. And you've even
found a potential
>publisher at a time when all of Gil Brewer's (for
example) books are out
>of print. All this post-modern Borgesian stuff is
hurting my head - I'm
>gonna go and watch The Untouchables.
>(By the way - are you really Joseph
O'Connell?)
>
>Ern O'Malley & the Angry Penguins
>
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