Sorry to be unclear. The link you gave works OK. The one that doesn't is the link on that page to the story Auto-Matthew's Friend. Best wishes Matthew -----Original Message----- From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 28 July 2001 01:16 Subject: Re: Steiner >That's weird, Matthew, I just tested and the link works from my original >post but not from the copy on your reply. Yet both are identical. Puzzled. > >Best > >Dave > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matthew Francis" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:03 AM >Subject: Re: Steiner > > >> Sadly, the link didn't work. Ah well... >> >> Best wishes >> >> M >> -----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 >> >> >> > >> >