Dancin' in the streets. . . What's New?

Log of Past Modifications:
February 1999


February 27, 1999: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) -- "Links" page -- Four new Links: Byron the Bulb's TP Illuminexus, Soniferous Aether, FringeWare's TP Page, UK Pynchon reading group.

February 27, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Links" page -- New Link: "Beat the Devil," an article about the Unabomber that mentions FW.

February 26, 1999: Bronze by Gold -- Ross Lee Finney page added; The Joyce Book added to "Notes and Essays."

February 24, 1999: Links to the homepages of PopCanon and Roger Reynolds (a band and a composer who both write pieces based on texts by Joyce, Borges, Pynchon, Kundera, García Márquez and others) added all over the appropriate link pages of the Libyrinth.

February 23, 1999: Bronze by Gold -- King Crimson page placed online; updates to the Fred Lerdahl and Pop Canon pages.

February 22, 1999: The Scriptorium (Libyrinth) -- A William Gaddis Page has been included.

February 22, 1999: Honorable Mentions (Libyrinth) -- My little ego-trip has finally been updated.

January 2, 1999: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Influences" Page -- Georges Perec and Kevin Kelly added.

February 22, 1999: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Papers" page -- Eco's "Eternal Fascism" essay added.

February 22, 1999: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Links" page -- New Link: Biblio Magazine interview with Eco

February 21, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Papers" page -- Weeded and updated; seven new papers and essays added.

February 21, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Links" page -- 12 new links: Sonarchy, King Crimson and Ulysses, James Joyce Quarterly, Transactions, CollideorScape, Rosenbach Collection, Bloomsday Site, Phillips Academy Joyce class, Philosophers in Ulysses, Poldy.com Bookstore, Cosmic Baseball Assoc., John Lynch homepage.

February 20, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Film" page -- A new section added for films about Joyce. Also Internet Movie Databse links have finally been fixed.

February 20, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Audio" page -- This page has been split into groups for convenience; several new books-on-tape added as well as two Joyce lectures, one by Terrence McKenna and on by Joseph Campbell.

February 20, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Links" page -- 5 new links: The Trieste Joyce School, two French sites on Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, a student's guide to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and a site that sells bronze Joyce Death Masks for a mere eight hundred bucks.

February 20, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Bookstore" page -- The page has been reorganized for increased convenience; a new "Multimedia" section has been created, and dozens of new Joycean books, tapes, and films have been added.

February 20, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Main" page -- A "Special Features" page has been added. Also general maintenance done to site -- bug fixes, new quotes, etc.

February 19, 1999: Bronze by Gold -- Entire site revised and tweaked; three new artist pages placed online: Fred Lerdahl, Pop Canon, and the Beatles.

February 8, 1999: Macondo (García Márquez) -- Two new features documented: Gabo's purchase of Cambio Magazine and an article on Bill Clinton penned by Gabo himself.

February 8, 1999: Macondo (García Márquez) -- "Links" Page -- A link to Cambio, Gabo's newly purchased magazine.

February 3, 1999: BRONZE BY GOLD: A new site! -- I finally split my Joyce and Music section off from the Brazen Head and turned it into a greatly expanded site of its own. Visit Bronze by Gold here, and feel free to send me suggestions, corrections and comments.

January 1999


January 12, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Images" page -- Completely revised! Over 20 new Joyce-related images added; and all the older images have been upgraded to a higher level of quality.

January 12, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Film" page -- A Ulysses page added, with a review of the 1967 Ulysses movie.

January 12, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Links" page -- A link added to "In Bloom," a comprehensive Joyce site.

January 3, 1999: Ariadne's Thread (Libyrinth) -- Two new links added -- "Suite 101 Lit Page," and The Beehive, a stylish PoMo Zine devoted to hypertextual literature.

January 3, 1998: The Scriptorium (Libyrinth) -- A Georges Perec page has been included.

January 3, 1999: Ariadne's Thread (Libyrinth) -- A new link added to Café Irreal, a wonderful new online magazine devoted to imaginative literature.

January 3, 1999: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Influences" Page -- Coleman and Perrin's Jamais Vu Papers added.

January 3, 1999: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Links" Page -- Two new links added: "Borges, God or Satan" and "Kafka and his Precursors."

January 2, 1999: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Papers" Page -- A new paper, "Borges is God" was added.

January 2, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Papers" Page -- A new paper, "Musical Joyce," was added.

January 2, 1999: Awards Page (Libyrinth) -- Five new awards added: Alta Vista, Snap.com, BBC Web Guide, Link2Go, and Bottom's Dream.

January 2, 1999: The Libyrinth -- The Visitor's Comments page was updated.

January 1, 1999: A few updates and changes made to the Libyrinth FAQ File, the Exit tunnel and the Scriptorium.

January 1, 1999: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) -- "Music" page -- a new group, PopCanon, was added and the Radiohead entry was updated.

January 1, 1999: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Links" page -- four new links added: "Flying by the Net," "The Haunted Inkbottle," "The Merlbourne Bloomsday Site," and Bob Williams's "Finnegans Wake Outline."

October 1998
October 2, 1998: The Scriptorium (Libyrinth) -- An Alain Robbe-Grillet page has been added.
September 1998


September 28, 1998: Macondo (García Márquez) -- "Films" -- The section on "Gabo in Cinema" has been extensively revised, and over a dozen new films have been added.

September 28, 1998: Macondo (García Márquez) -- The whole site has been tweaked and updated.

September 24, 1998: Macondo (García Márquez) -- "Bookstore" -- 2 new books added to the Amazon.com Bookstore.

September 24, 1998: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Bookstore" -- 5 new books added to the Amazon.com Bookstore.

September 23, 1998: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Audio" A new series of rentable, unabridged books on tape added to the Audio section.

September 23, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- New Book found! There is no Borges added to Amazon.com Bookstore.

September 23, 1998: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) -- The whole site has been tweaked, and minor updates and additions have been made to several sections, including Bibliography, Bookstore, and Pynchonalia.

September 23, 1998: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) -- "Music" page -- two new groups added (Lot 49 & Yoyodyne), and you can now order music CDs through Amazon.com directly from the page.

September 22, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- New Book release! Collected Fictions added to Amazon.com Bookstore.

September 22, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Links" -- 3 new links added: "The Borges Collection," "Ed Newman's Labyrinth," and "Bumps on my Head."

September 22, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Influences" -- four new authors added: Bruce Chatwin, Michael Ende, Witold Gombrovicz, and Joyce Carol Oates.

September 22, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- Minor updates and additions to several sections, including Biography, Bibliography, Criticism, and Papers.

September 21, 1998: ArtiFAQs (Libyrinth) -- My FAQ file has been updated, expanded, and rearranged.

September 17, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- A new paper, "The Circular Ruins," has been added.

September 17, 1998: Awards Page (Libyrinth) -- The Libyrinth wins the "Cyber-Teddy Top 500" and the "Suite 101 Top 5" awards. Also made an Alta Vista partner.

Summer 1998


August 27, 1998: Macondo (García Márquez) -- The long-neglected "Essay" section has been replaced with Gabo's Nobel Prize speech.

July 16, 1998: New Links -- New Links added to the Borges, Gabo, and Pynchon sites.

May 22, 1998: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) -- Complete and major revision to the whole site. New information, new links, updates, and a new look! Check it out!

February 1998

February 15, 1998: Sarnath -- My hompage, Sarnath, is completely revised and updated. A new look! New features! An answer to "What is Fegmania!" (OK, so it's not the Libyrinth, but still....)

February 15, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Links" -- two new links are added: "Stories from TSA" and "Possible Worlds of JLB"

February 15, 1998: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Links" -- A new link is added: "Umberto Eco's Multiple Name"

February 15, 1998: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Papers" -- The format is tweaked a bit and three new papers are added.

February 15, 1998: Porta Ludovica (Eco) -- "Audio" -- A review of Name of the Rose is added.

January 1998


January 26, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Influences" -- This section has been completely revised and several new entries have been included.

January 26, 1998: Awards Page (Libyrinth) -- The Libyrinth wins the "Web Book Award."

January 7, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Links" -- two new links are added: "Borges and I," and "My Poet Hero"

January 7, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Papers" -- a new paper, "Melville and Borges," is added.

January 7, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Criticism" -- several new books of Borges criticism are added.

January 7, 1998: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- "Quotes" -- a few new quotes are included.

January 7, 1998: Spermatikos Logos (Thomas Pynchon) -- Information on the Pynchon Rome conference added to main page. (Larry Daw will have a Pynchon art exhibition on display there!)

January 7, 1998: Ariadne's Thread (Libyrinth) -- A new section of links is added to the page: "Postmodern and Post-structuralist Theory." This section has a 8 new links to pages on modern literary theory and intellectuals such as Derrida, Barthes, Foucault and Baudrillard.

January 7, 1998: Ariadne's Thread (Libyrinth) -- Eight other new links added: "Ministry of Whimsy," "Spoon" "NYT Book Review," "BookWire," "Voice of the Shuttle," "Doom Patrols," "n.b." and "Is It A Book?"

December 1997


December 27, 1997: Porta Ludovica (Umberto Eco) -- The whole site is revised and cast into a new format.

December 27, 1997: Porta Ludovica (Umberto Eco) -- "Links" -- Five new links to Eco-related sites added.

December 8, 1997: Macondo (García Márquez) -- The whole site is revised and cast into a new format. I will be updating the contents during the Spring of 1998

December 8, 1997: Macondo (García Márquez) -- An "Online Papers" section added.

December 7, 1997: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- The whole site is revised and cast into a new format. I will be updating the contents over the next few weeks.

December 7, 1997: Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- An "Online Papers" section added.

December 3, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- The Main Page is rewritten and tweaked a bit

December 3, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Film" -- A section is added that details Joyce in cinema.

December 3, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Criticism" -- A new work is added to the "General Criticism" section

November 1997


November 30, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- A temporary "Joyce Bio" section is added.

November 30, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- The "Joyce on Tape" section is updated, and I added a few new reviews and revised some old ones.

November 30, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Links" -- 3 new links added: "The Joyce Literary Supplement Homepage," "FW -- Studies in Key Episodes," and the excellent "Joyce of Science" website.

November 30, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Papers" -- Links to 3 new papers about Joyce have been added, and a new section on "other online collections" has been included.

November 30, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Amazon.com Bookstore" -- Two new works of Joyce criticism are added to the "New" section.

November 30, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Joyce Influence" -- Philip K. Dick is added, complete with an excerpt from The Divine Invasion.

November 26, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- The "Joyce Criticism" section significantly re-organized, updated, and expanded. Many of the reviews are revised, and more links are added to online bookstores.

November 16, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- The "Joyce Quotes" page is updated.

November 16, 1997: Brazen Head (Joyce) -- The "Joyce Bookstore" updated, 7 new titles of Joyce criticism are added to the "New" section.

November 12, 1997: Ariadne's Thread (Libyrinth) -- A new link is added to the "Poetrty of Babel" site.

November 12, 1997: What's New (Libyrinth) -- Pages are tweaked, "Quail Notes" updated, and my notes on the revisions are moved to a seperate page.

November 12, 1997: Exeunt Libyrinth (Libyrinth) -- Updates to the "Honorable Mentions" section in the Awards area.

November 11, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- Pages tweaked slightly; a link to the Finnegans Wake Reading Group List is added to the "E-Lists" section.

October 1997


October 31, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Joyceworks" section placed online. This contains reviews and summaries of his works, an essay on Joyce and his style, and advice for the first time reader.

October 25, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- Two new papers added to the "Papers" section: "With a Greek Gloss on It," and "An Explication of 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead'"

October 25, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- A new link added to the "Links" page: Michael Godfrey's "FW Titbits."

October 25, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- Some of the existing information on the "Music" page is expanded: Sam Barber, Lou Reed and Dream Theatre. A new entry is included: "Anna Livia Plurabelle," a jazz piece by André Hodeir.

October 25, 1997: Ariadne's Thread (Libyrinth) -- Several new links are added to the Libyrinth's links page: Blackwell's, A Mystical Unicorn, Caryn's Library, The Quill Pen, and Pretext Magazine.

October 25, 1997: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) -- Larry Daw's "Illustrated Complete Summary to Gravity's Rainbow" is added, via several craftily placed links.

October 25, 1997: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) -- A link to "Byzantium" added.

October 25, 1997: Macondo (García Márquez) -- A link to Sprayliz's "Macondo" added.

October 25, 1997: The Scriptorium (Libyrinth) -- John Barth is added as the Scriptorium's first author!

October 25, 1997: Exeunt Libyrinth (Libyrinth) -- Page added to "Laurels & Hardies" (in the "exit tunnel") which details past mentions of the Libyrinth in print media.

October 25, 1997: Awards Page (Libyrinth) -- a new award added to "Laurels & Hardies" (in the "exit tunnel".)

October 25, 1997: Exeunt Libyrinth (Libyrinth) -- The "Visitor's Comments" section is updated.

October 14, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- a few bugshoots are made, a few things are tweaked. New deadlines are scheduled.

October 14, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Luciano Berio" is added to Joyce Music.

October 14, 1997: The Brazen Head (Joyce) -- "Foetus" is added to Joyce Music.

October 3, 1997: My September Project is finally finished! The Brazen Head is completely remodeled and placed online. It has new links, new papers, new articles, new features, new images . . . gosh, just about everything's new, so feel free to check it out!

August 1997


August 27, 1997: The Pynchon page was tweaked a bit to clean up the Frames.

August 27, 1997: Fixed a bug that was preventing the Pynchon Online Papers from working correctly. All the "Pynchon papers" are now available.

August 27, 1997: Minor revisions made to Pynchon's biography.

August 27, 1997: Larry Daw's Lineland review added to the Pynchon page.

August 1, 1997: The Libyrinth is relocated to a new home!

August 1, 1997: The "Visitor's Comments" page is finally added to the Exit Tunnel.

August 1, 1997: Two new links added to "Ariadne's Thread."

August 1, 1997: A new award is added to the Libyrinth -- the "Golden Skull Award For Excellence."

August 1, 1997: The whole Libyrinth shell is tweaked to make it look a little more consistent, clean, and better for MSIE surfers. (Thanks, Ben Munsey!)

July 1997


July 4, 1997: The entire structure of the Libyrinth "shell" and the Omphalos are revised and expanded. The Archives are created.

July 4, 1997: The "Introduction," "What's New," "Awards," and "Links" pages are extrensively revised.

July 4, 1997: The following new sections are added: viewing tips, a FAQ File, a personal biography, the Scriptorium, and an "exit tunnel."

July 4, 1997: A new award is added to the Libyrinth -- the Mining Company's "Best of the Net" award.

June 1997


June 17, 1997: Pynchon Page -- An official Mason & Dixon page added.

June 17, 1997: Mason & Dixon Page -- Larry Daw's review of the novel is added.

June 17, 1997: Pynchon Music Page -- Entry for "Benny profane" added.

June 17, 1997: Pynchon Links -- Link to "Lineland" added

May 1997


May 27, 1997: Joyce Links -- Revised and updated: 17 new links added.

May 27, 1997: Kafka site -- German error corrected - Doh! - All should now properly be "Das Schloss der Verwandlungen."

May 27, 1997: Eco Links -- One new link added.

May 27, 1997: Libyrinth Links -- A link to "Pure Fiction" added.

May 18, 1997: Eco Links -- One new link added.

May 18, 1997: Borges Links -- One new link added.

May 15, 1997: Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Guides -- Part IV (the final installment, hurray!) of Larry Daw's Summary added.

May 1, 1997: Minor changes to Libyrinth homepage

April 1997

April 30, 1997: *New Page* -- "Pynchon's Novels" page added to Spermatikos Logos

April 28, 1997: Pynchon Images -- "Fivefold Symmetries" image added.

April 19, 1997: Pynchon Images -- "Five Novels" image added.

April 19, 1997: Eco Links -- Revised; four new links added.

April 18, 1997: Gravity's Rainbow Guides -- "An Introduction to GR" -- added.

April 11, 1997: *Revision* -- "Gravity's Rainbow Guides" page now includes two separate pieces: Dr. Larry Daw's "Complete Summary," the Great Quail's "Structural Analysis." The third -- "An Introduction to GR" -- will be online shortly.

April 9, 1997: *New Page* -- "Gravity's Rainbow Guides" page added to Spermatikos Logos, which will include both Dr. Daw's "Summary" and the Great Quail's "Analysis"

April 9, 1997: Pynchon Mason & Dixon Update Page -- A final word on the number of pages has been released: 784 pages!

April 3, 1997: *New Page Bug Fix* -- "Pynchonalia" page added to Spermatikos Logos, and the bug that made it not, um, really work so well has been fixed.

April 3, 1997: Pynchonalia Page -- "Weissmann's Tarot" added.

April 3, 1997: Additions made to Amazon.com books for Eco, Joyce and Pynchon.

April 1, 1997: Pynchon Mason & Dixon Update Page -- Some exciting new material has been added! This is a "must-see" for Pynchon fans!

April 1, 1997: *New Page* -- "Pynchonalia" page added to Spermatikos Logos.

April 1, 1997: Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Page -- Part III of Larry Daw's Summary added.

April 1, 1997: Pynchon Music Page -- Pat Benatar reference added.

April 1, 1997: Pynchon Links -- A link to "The Official Mason & Dixon Website" added.

March 1997

March 17, 1997: Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow Page -- Part II of Larry Daw's Summary added.

March 17, 1997: Additions made to Amazon.com books for Eco, Kafka, Joyce and Pynchon.

March 17, 1997: Libyrinth Links -- A link to "Bohemian Ink" added, and 2 new links added to the postmodernist area of the Libyrinth links page.

March 17, 1997: Garcia Marquez Links -- Revised, expanded, and updated.

February 1997


February 14, 1997: Eco Main Directory ("Porta Ludovica") -- a special note added alerting visitors to an interview with Eco in the March1997 Wired magazine

February 10, 1997: *New Page* -- "Gravity's Rainbow Summary" page added to Spermatikos Logos

February 10, 1997: Pynchon Main Directory ("Spermatikos Logos") -- minor update

February 10, 1997: Pynchon Quotes -- updated and corrected

February 10, 1997: Pynchon Intro -- a link to a picture of Larry Daw added

February 9, 1997: *New Page* -- "Pynchon Images" page added to Spermatikos Logos

January 1997


January 26, 1997: Pynchon Music -- 3 new references added, format slightly revised

January 26, 1997: Libyrinth Links -- 2 new links added to bookstore web pages

January 26, 1997: Libyrinth Main Directory ("The Omphalos") -- NetGuide "Gold" award added, some minor updates

January 26, 1997: Minor updates -- Joyce Amazon Books & Eco Quotes

January 20, 1997: *New Page* -- "Joyce at Amazon.com Books" page added to the Brazen Head

January 20, 1997: Joyce Main Directory ("The Brazen Head") -- minor update

January 20, 1997: *New Page* -- "Borges at Amazon.com Books" page added to the Garden of Forking Paths

January 20, 1997: Borges Main Directory ("The Garden of Forking Paths") -- minor update

January 20, 1997: "Pynchon Mason & Dixon Information" page -- minor update

January 20, 1997: Pynchon Links -- 1 new link added

January 14, 1997: *New Page* -- "Pynchon Online Papers" page added to Spermatikos Logos

January 14, 1997: *New Page* -- "Eco at Amazon.com Books" page added to Porta Ludovica

January 14, 1997: *New Page* -- "Garcia Marquez at Amazon.com Books" page added to Macondo

January 14, 1997: Garcia Marquez Main Directory ("Macondo") -- minor update

January 9, 1997: *New Page* -- "Kafka Online Texts" page added to Das Schloss

January 9, 1997: Kafka Links -- revised, and 3 new links added

January 9, 1997: Libyrinth Links -- revised, and 3 new links added

January 8, 1997: The Libyrinth is made an official "Amazon.com Associate."

January 8, 1997: *New Page* -- "Kafka at Amazon.com Books" page added to Das Schloss.

January 7, 1997: *New Page* -- "Pynchon at Amazon.com Books" page added to Spermatikos Logos; Pynchon Bibliography and Pynchon Criticism pages updated to include this link.

January 7, 1997: Pynchon Links -- 4 new links added

January 7, 1997: Pynchon Bibliography -- new 1996 Knopf edition of GR added

January 6, 1997: *New Page* -- "What's New In the Libyrinth" section placed online; all main Directory pages are updated to give access to this section.

January 6, 1997: Pynchon Quotes -- minor update

January 6, 1997: Pynchon Main Directory ("Spermatikos Logos") -- minor update

January 5, 1997: Borges Links -- a new link added

January 5, 1997: Pynchon Links -- a new link added

December 1997


December 24, 1996: *New Page* -- "Kafka Links" added to Das Schloss

December 21, 1996: *New Site* -- Kafka Main Directory ("Das Schloss") placed online


Wait! There's More!

What's New? -- Back to the current changes

Quailnotes -- Notes on my progress and future plans.

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