Thanks, David - another author I really should read. I only know him from the film of Solaris. Best wishes Matthew -----Original Message----- From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 27 July 2001 23:55 Subject: Re: Steiner >Ah well here's a pressie for you Matthew, deserved indeed for those >beautiful, tantalising poems in your Feature, if you go to the possibly best >Lem site on the Web: > >http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/lem/#fables > >you will find among the links on a long page the fable entire. With, I >understand, the author's permission. > >And yeah, Gigamesh was brilliant, amazed Patrick didn't do a sequel, the one >that really gets me from 'A Perfect Vacuum', the heart-rending finale to >'Personoids' apart, is the outrageously funny and , too, deadly serious >'Gruppenfuhrer Louis the XVI'. What a fillum that could make. > >Best > >Dave > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Martin J. Walker" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:03 PM >Subject: Re: Steiner > > >> I wish I could check that Lem story out, David, but it's not in my >> collection. As you mention Lem, though: without him we would certainly be >> ill-informed about *the* >> post-joycean-etymo-musico-coprophili-polylogogryphical "novel" of the last >> century, Patrick Hannahan's _Gigamesh_. >> Martin >> >