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Subject:
Funny Story Gone AWOL
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature Asked by: morbidluna-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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05 Jul 2003 09:38 PDT
Expires: 04 Aug 2003 09:38 PDT Question ID: 225368 |
I'm looking for a partial story written by the author of a particular website, I believe the main site was about astronomy. (Can't remember the URL) It was about this guy who gets a $5000 or so check(lots of money, not sure how much) from this weird uncle of his and an invitation to come and see something. When he arrives it turns out the uncle is a magic user, and the guy is teleported to another dimension shortly thereafter. He meets this rather unskilled wizard whom he accidentally sends to hell(and brings him back) as well as a faery-nymph thing(not sure what) named Tyme. I found this story originally by typing in 'silver eyes and shining fates' without quotations or any other markings. It seems to have moved though, since it's no longer available on the first two pages(not that I could find, at least), but I might have looked over it somehow. It's completely original, IE., it's not a fanfic or spin-off. It's also very funny; I recommend the researcher who finds it to read it themselves for the sheer amusement value. All I need is the URL to the site, if it still exists. |
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Re: Funny Story Gone AWOL
Answered By: markj-ga on 05 Jul 2003 11:21 PDT Rated: |
morbidluna -- Here is the URL for Chapter 1 of the partial story you are seeking: The Book http://www.vat13.com/tb01.htm Subsequent chapters can be accessed by clicking on the links at the bottom of each page, up through "Chapter 5," after which the tale abruptly ends. I am glad that you asked only for the URL, because there appears to be nothing else on the web that explains or supplements this material. To test that conclusion, I tried various searches using exact quotes from the text and came up with nothing. And, of course, the site that I found contains no names for either the author or "the book." You're right that the story has some very funny moments, and I commend it to the attention of other researchers. Search Strategy: I started with a simple search using only the most unusual word in your description -- "Tyme." That was not much help, since it resulted in 202,000 hits: tyme ://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=tyme I then added the word "wizard" to the next search, since that seemed to be a word that was likely to be repeatedly used in the story. That helped some, but still produced an unwieldy 2200 hits: tyme wizard ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=tyme+wizard I then added the word "spell" to the next search, thinking that it would be repeatedly used on the same web page as "wizard" in the story, but it should narrow the results down to a manageable size. (The whole strategy assumed, of course, that the name "Tyme" occurs on the same web page as the other terms in the search.) This search was a success, and language that looks like an excerpt from the story in question appeared as the 15th of 271 hits: tyme wizard spell ://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=tyme+wizard+spell I am confident that this is the information you are seeking. If anything is unclear (or wrong!), please ask for clarification before rating the answer. markj-ga |
morbidluna-ga
rated this answer:
Excellent. I wish I'd thought of approaching it that way, but I got stuck in the rut of trying to recreate the same means that had led me to the results previously. |
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Re: Funny Story Gone AWOL
From: denco-ga on 05 Jul 2003 13:27 PDT |
Fantastic job by markj-ga on finding the site! Some more information... From the home page of the website containing the story, we find that it belongs to one Devon Oxford. http://www.vat13.com From the link that appears there, it seems that Mr. Oxford wrote "The Book." http://www.vat13.com/other.htm "For those who like reading something really off-the-wall, or just for a good laugh, check out 'The Book' by........me" The "home" page for "The Book" which also includes some background on the story, can be found at: http://www.vat13.com/tb00.htm Mr. Oxford's email address (from the website) in case you had questions, such as when Chapter 6 will be available, is: devon@vat13.com Hope this helps! denco-ga |
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Re: Funny Story Gone AWOL
From: markj-ga on 05 Jul 2003 14:00 PDT |
Thank you, denco-ga, for supplying the additional information. I had committed a typo in trying to back out the home page's URL from the URL of "The Book." markj-ga |
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Re: Funny Story Gone AWOL
From: morbidluna-ga on 06 Jul 2003 07:16 PDT |
Thanks. I had explored the entirety of the site so knew precisely what I was looking for(which you found very nicely), but didn't know where it had run off to, or whether it existed at all. It's an unfortunate fact of the internet that some of the greatest writings and sites disappear due to financial reasons, hosts going out of business, etc... Anyway, I shall record the URL in a more secure location now. |
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Re: Funny Story Gone AWOL
From: markj-ga on 06 Jul 2003 08:17 PDT |
morbidluna -- Thanks for the kind words and the five-star rating. markj-ga |
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