From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:56:36 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Sam, I understand your point of view and agree with it in part.
However, I think we should reserve the term "alternate history" for
universes where objective history differs one from another.  Otherwise, a
useful term acquires a totally different meaning and becomes almost useless.
Perhaps we should use "ideoverse" to describe an individual worldview within
a single universe by analogy with the established term "ideolect" used by
speech scientists to describe individuals' unique speech sub-languages
within a standard language.

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Lubell [mailto:lubell at cais.com]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:26 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Texas, more than you thought

At 09:01 AM 4/8/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Sam,
>	If you're really interested, I think I can find my hard copy
>reference.  Most of the proposals I read in a bound master's thesis at the
>University of Mississippi.
>
>Lee
>

Not that interested, sorry.  But I will comment that every work of history
is an alternate history as two historians, looking at the same events will
come up with different interpretations.