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Since: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 2
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:55 pm
Post subject: Fwi-song Imported from groups: alt>books>iain-banks (more info?)
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Since: Nov 01, 2005 Posts: 2
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:22 pm
Post subject: Re: Fwi-song [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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Hi
I'm happy to be proved wrong but I'm sure he isn't mentioned anywhere else.
Give me the proof he is!
regards
Paul
<greenaum.TakeThisOut@BOLLOCKSyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:43663428.131255@news.cable.ntlworld.com...
> Just a quick Q. I've read, I think, now, every Culture book and I'm
> just finishing digesting State of the Art.
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> Anyway, my last book, in reading order, was Consider Phlebas, and I'm
> sure fatarse beach-prophet Fwi-Song is mentioned somewhere in one of
> the other books, but I can't remember where. Maybe in a prologue or
> something.
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> That's the question, btw, where else is he mentioned?
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> if love is a drug, then, ideally, it's a healing, healthful drug... it's
> kind of like prozac is supposed to work (without the sexual side
> effects and long-term damage to the brain and psyche) >> Stay informed about: Fwi-song |
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Since: Nov 02, 2005 Posts: 1
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:38 am
Post subject: Re: Fwi-song [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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Mike wrote:
> Hi
> I'm happy to be proved wrong but I'm sure he isn't mentioned anywhere else.
> Give me the proof he is!
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> regards
> Paul
Good challenge. I would give it 50/50 myself. I'll report back.
--
Eugene Debs, "No social system is so stupid as that which sows the seeds
of vice and crime and later becomes purple with indignation and horror
when the crop is ripe for picking." >> Stay informed about: Fwi-song |
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Since: Nov 12, 2005 Posts: 1
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:47 pm
Post subject: Re: Fwi-song [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:55:32 GMT, greenaum.RemoveThis@BOLLOCKSyahoo.co.uk wrote:
>Just a quick Q. I've read, I think, now, every Culture book and I'm
>just finishing digesting State of the Art.
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>Anyway, my last book, in reading order, was Consider Phlebas, and I'm
>sure fatarse beach-prophet Fwi-Song is mentioned somewhere in one of
>the other books, but I can't remember where. Maybe in a prologue or
>something.
Well. I have read every Banks scifi book as they were published,
starting from Consider Phlebas obviously. I can with near certainty
say you remember wrong, sorry. Definitely not in any prologue or
epilogue.
-Martti
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-Martti
E pur, si muove!
Ei per..., se on muovia! >> Stay informed about: Fwi-song |
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Since: Feb 09, 2004 Posts: 14
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Fwi-song [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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Mike emailed this:
> Hi
> I'm happy to be proved wrong but I'm sure he isn't mentioned anywhere else.
> Give me the proof he is!
I second this!
>
> regards
> Paul
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> <greenaum RemoveThis @BOLLOCKSyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:43663428.131255@news.cable.ntlworld.com...
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>>Just a quick Q. I've read, I think, now, every Culture book and I'm
>>just finishing digesting State of the Art.
>>
>>Anyway, my last book, in reading order, was Consider Phlebas, and I'm
>>sure fatarse beach-prophet Fwi-Song is mentioned somewhere in one of
>>the other books, but I can't remember where. Maybe in a prologue or
>>something.
>>
>>That's the question, btw, where else is he mentioned?
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>if love is a drug, then, ideally, it's a healing, healthful drug... it's
>>kind of like prozac is supposed to work (without the sexual side
>>effects and long-term damage to the brain and psyche)
>
>
> >> Stay informed about: Fwi-song |
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