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mountain and laundress

Marc Aramini · 20 Oct 2008, 01:50 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:50:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) mountain and laundress
Message-ID: <632976.33096.qm at web58201.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

I normally don&#39;t think looking at other texts is extremely enlightening for Wolfe&#39;s works but I feel differently for Evil Guest.  I happened to be looking on my computer and came across &quot;someone comes to town someone leaves town&quot; and started reading it.  It had a blurb from wolfe and in the opening it says:
&quot;Alan&#39;s father was a mountain and his mother was a washing machine... his brothers were a dead man, a trio of nesting dolls, a fortune teller, and an island.&quot;

Have not read it yet  but that struck me.

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