• Winter's Tale

    From Karl-Johan Noren@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 27 12:02:18 2020
    Looking into the group, and feeling sad.

    A Sea Folk darter trapped in ice by Bandar Ebon
    Soldiers drill in Almoth in the snow
    Watchtower by the Blight, a Tinker on her wagon
    Falme's lighthouse where the storm hits land
    Dense snow slowly melting in the steep hills of Caemlyn
    Sweat in The Three Stars in Ebou Dar
    Caravan in misty snow from Maradon to distant land
    The lights go out in Tremalking

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    The mist in Tear scratched by hammers of the smithies
    and the ships are filled with refugees
    A horse pulls a wagon against the wind on Whitebridge
    A gleeman in Chachin sings "The Wind from the North"
    The To'raken mighty bellow is driving through the night
    The farms are dousing their last lights
    A storm drenched Tanchico sends prayers to The Light
    The Inner City staggers drunkenly

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    Sailor's inn in Illian in the shadow of the ships
    A Warder stabbed to death in Tar Valon
    Snowed-in farms somewhere in the Two Rivers
    And the drunks are taking over The Long Man
    Far beyond the forest the melody goes silent
    And the lights they flicker out and die
    People huddle when the snowstorm strikes upon their land
    Doors are closed, curtains they are pulled

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    (Can be sung to the tune of "Vintersaga" by Ted Str�m)

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  • From jjvors@21:1/5 to Karl-Johan Noren on Sun Sep 27 15:34:36 2020
    On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 5:02:20 AM UTC-5, Karl-Johan Noren wrote:
    Looking into the group, and feeling sad.

    A Sea Folk darter trapped in ice by Bandar Ebon
    Soldiers drill in Almoth in the snow
    Watchtower by the Blight, a Tinker on her wagon
    Falme's lighthouse where the storm hits land
    Dense snow slowly melting in the steep hills of Caemlyn
    Sweat in The Three Stars in Ebou Dar
    Caravan in misty snow from Maradon to distant land
    The lights go out in Tremalking

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    The mist in Tear scratched by hammers of the smithies
    and the ships are filled with refugees
    A horse pulls a wagon against the wind on Whitebridge
    A gleeman in Chachin sings "The Wind from the North"
    The To'raken mighty bellow is driving through the night
    The farms are dousing their last lights
    A storm drenched Tanchico sends prayers to The Light
    The Inner City staggers drunkenly

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    Sailor's inn in Illian in the shadow of the ships
    A Warder stabbed to death in Tar Valon
    Snowed-in farms somewhere in the Two Rivers
    And the drunks are taking over The Long Man
    Far beyond the forest the melody goes silent
    And the lights they flicker out and die
    People huddle when the snowstorm strikes upon their land
    Doors are closed, curtains they are pulled

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    (Can be sung to the tune of "Vintersaga" by Ted Ström)
    Hi Karl,

    This is the first on-topic post I've seen in a while. Good for you, Karl!

    I'm Jeff Smith. I joined the group in 94 or 95 and posted quite a bit in the 90s. I ran the daily Parasha for a while. With the demise of Usenet (went to Yahoo and then Google) I retained a subscription to posts in a few groups.

    How are you doing?

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  • From Karl-Johan Noren@21:1/5 to jjvors on Mon Sep 28 20:19:25 2020
    On 2020-09-27 22:34:36 +0000, jjvors said:

    I'm Jeff Smith. I joined the group in 94 or 95 and posted quite a bit
    in the 90s. I ran the daily Parasha for a while. With the demise of
    Usenet (went to Yahoo and then Google) I retained a subscription to
    posts in a few groups.
    How are you doing?

    Huh. You must have joined the froup at about the same time as I did,
    but I can't say I remember you. I do remember I sent in the proposal
    for what ended up as Parasha, though. But didn't it run weekly?

    Most of us migrated to Livejournal, and then Dreamwidth. Nowadays
    it's mostly The Cabal (TINC) Discord server, though you can find some
    exiles in other spots as well. If you want to, I can send over an
    invite.

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  • From jjvors@21:1/5 to Karl-Johan Noren on Tue Sep 29 15:18:42 2020
    On Monday, September 28, 2020 at 1:19:27 PM UTC-5, Karl-Johan Noren wrote:
    On 2020-09-27 22:34:36 +0000, jjvors said:

    I'm Jeff Smith. I joined the group in 94 or 95 and posted quite a bit
    in the 90s. I ran the daily Parasha for a while. With the demise of
    Usenet (went to Yahoo and then Google) I retained a subscription to
    posts in a few groups.
    How are you doing?
    Huh. You must have joined the froup at about the same time as I did,
    but I can't say I remember you. I do remember I sent in the proposal
    for what ended up as Parasha, though. But didn't it run weekly?

    Most of us migrated to Livejournal, and then Dreamwidth. Nowadays
    it's mostly The Cabal (TINC) Discord server, though you can find some
    exiles in other spots as well. If you want to, I can send over an
    invite.
    I never got the memo on the other sites. I just kept my subscription to raswrj.

    Thanks for any invite. Use my author email, [email protected]

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  • From Karl-Johan Noren@21:1/5 to jjvors on Fri Oct 2 21:45:04 2020
    On 2020-09-29 22:18:42 +0000, jjvors said:

    I never got the memo on the other sites. I just kept my subscription to raswrj.

    Thanks for any invite. Use my author email, [email protected]

    At least the first migration out off here happened rather organically;
    it was not like it was planned by anyone. But I've sent an invite
    to There Is No Cabal to you now.

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  • From jjvors@21:1/5 to Karl-Johan Noren on Tue Oct 6 21:02:52 2020
    On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 2:45:06 PM UTC-5, Karl-Johan Noren wrote:
    On 2020-09-29 22:18:42 +0000, jjvors said:

    I never got the memo on the other sites. I just kept my subscription to raswrj.

    Thanks for any invite. Use my author email, [email protected]
    At least the first migration out off here happened rather organically;
    it was not like it was planned by anyone. But I've sent an invite
    to There Is No Cabal to you now.

    Thanks for the invitation. I got onto No Cabal and it just seems to be a messaging system, no discussion groups. So I don't know how to use it.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to jjvors on Wed Oct 7 16:14:20 2020
    jjvors <[email protected]> writes:
    On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 2:45:06 PM UTC-5, Karl-Johan Noren wrote:
    On 2020-09-29 22:18:42 +0000, jjvors said:

    I never got the memo on the other sites. I just kept my subscription to raswrj.

    Thanks for any invite. Use my author email, [email protected]
    At least the first migration out off here happened rather organically;
    it was not like it was planned by anyone. But I've sent an invite
    to There Is No Cabal to you now.

    Thanks for the invitation. I got onto No Cabal and it just seems to be a messaging system, no discussion groups. So I don't know how to use it.

    Just wait around here. When the Amazon version of The Eye of the World
    comes out next year, perhaps this usenet newsgroup may become popular
    again. Probably not to the level that caused it to spin out of
    rec.arts.sf however.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 14 03:14:56 2020
    sunnuntai 27. syyskuuta 2020 klo 13.02.20 UTC+3 Karl-Johan Noren kirjoitti:
    Looking into the group, and feeling sad.

    A Sea Folk darter trapped in ice by Bandar Ebon
    Soldiers drill in Almoth in the snow
    Watchtower by the Blight, a Tinker on her wagon
    Falme's lighthouse where the storm hits land
    Dense snow slowly melting in the steep hills of Caemlyn
    Sweat in The Three Stars in Ebou Dar
    Caravan in misty snow from Maradon to distant land
    The lights go out in Tremalking

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    The mist in Tear scratched by hammers of the smithies
    and the ships are filled with refugees
    A horse pulls a wagon against the wind on Whitebridge
    A gleeman in Chachin sings "The Wind from the North"
    The To'raken mighty bellow is driving through the night
    The farms are dousing their last lights
    A storm drenched Tanchico sends prayers to The Light
    The Inner City staggers drunkenly

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    Sailor's inn in Illian in the shadow of the ships
    A Warder stabbed to death in Tar Valon
    Snowed-in farms somewhere in the Two Rivers
    And the drunks are taking over The Long Man
    Far beyond the forest the melody goes silent
    And the lights they flicker out and die
    People huddle when the snowstorm strikes upon their land
    Doors are closed, curtains they are pulled

    It is now the time when the Last Battle will begin
    And from Aryth sea rise a frigid ice-chilled wind

    (Can be sung to the tune of "Vintersaga" by Ted Ström)

    Nicely done, and nice to see a little twitch of life in the old group. I still check in every now and then on the ~3 groups I regularly visited back in the good ole days.

    It's going to be interesting to see if the TV show brings anyone back to discuss things. The GRRM TV show didn't do a whole lot, I think it just appealed to a different demographic. Either that or the day of usenet and other text-based discussion media
    is really over.


    C@w
    --
    https://hatboy.blog/

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  • From Joel Hafvenstein@21:1/5 to Karl-Johan Noren on Sat Oct 23 17:10:17 2021
    Hej Karl-Johan! Long time no see. Once in another life, you translated my work. :)

    I don't think I ever quite qualified for The Cabal, but I'd enjoy joining a C(TINC) Discord, if alt.shrugged is enough of a calling card to get me in the door. Do send me an invite if you see this...

    On Monday, 28 September 2020 at 19:19:27 UTC+1, Karl-Johan Noren wrote:
    On 2020-09-27 22:34:36 +0000, jjvors said:

    I'm Jeff Smith. I joined the group in 94 or 95 and posted quite a bit
    in the 90s. I ran the daily Parasha for a while. With the demise of
    Usenet (went to Yahoo and then Google) I retained a subscription to
    posts in a few groups.
    How are you doing?
    Huh. You must have joined the froup at about the same time as I did,
    but I can't say I remember you. I do remember I sent in the proposal
    for what ended up as Parasha, though. But didn't it run weekly?

    Most of us migrated to Livejournal, and then Dreamwidth. Nowadays
    it's mostly The Cabal (TINC) Discord server, though you can find some
    exiles in other spots as well. If you want to, I can send over an
    invite.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)