{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2186",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 2186,
    "subject": "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-10T09:37:44+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-10T09:37:44+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0894@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-10T09:37:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Some comments and a question on this story (in the anthology MOON SHOTS,\ned. Peter Crowther).\n\nFirst, Roy T. Laffer is of course R. A. Lafferty, whom Wolfe has praised\nin print.  Laffer is described as a \"cranky old man in Tulsa.\"  Lafferty\nis from Tulsa, and \"Cranky Old Man from Tulsa\" is the title of either an\nessay by Lafferty or a pamphlet collecting his essays (my Lafferty\ncollection is inaccessible to me at the moment).  And the \"big lug\"\nnarrative voice Wolfe uses in \"Junie Moon\" is one that Lafferty has\noccasionally used, though not often.\n\nSecond, \"Junie Moon\" is based on a specific Lafferty story, \"You Can't\nGo Back.\"  Just like Junie Moon, that story has a tiny moon named White\nCow Moon so close to Earth you can get there by airplane.  There are\ndifferences, though: Lafferty's Moon doesn't orbit, but hovers (though\nit can move around of its own volition) and there's no hint that it's\nmade of a particularly light substance.  It's an excellent story,\nincidentally, and a great place to start with Lafferty if you've never\nread him; it appeared in IASFM Sept. 1981, and was reprinted in BEST SF\nOF THE YEAR 11, edited by Terry Carr.\n\nThird, though \"Junie Moon\" isn't equal to Wolfe's best short stories and\nnovellas, I like it better than any other recent story of his I've read\n(I haven't read STRANGE TRAVELLERS, but I've read a number of the\nstories in it).\n\nFinally, my question: at the end of the story Sam mentions seeing \"the\nlittle woman with the baby and the old man with the stick in the cave,\"\nbut says it was probably just a dream.  Are these folkloric inhabitants\nof the Moon, like the man in the Moon?  They sound like it, but I\nhaven't heard of them, and I haven't managed tofind a book or article on\nMoon-related folklore.  Or are they related to King Arthur, another\nmotif in the story?  If they aren't what is their significance?\n\n--Adam"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}