summer project idea

Fred Kiesche · 20 Mar 2012, 00:20 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: godelescherbach at gmail.com (Fred Kiesche)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:20:30 -0400
Subject: (urth) summer project idea
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Do you already have a list (is the Internet Spec Data Base accurate--I
wasn't sure if you'd call, for example, the chapbooks "short
stories"--drawing a line with the novelettes/novellas or ???)?

I don't think I have a great set of the short works, but maybe I'll
participate as I can. (I started the year reading the four or so NESFA
Zelazny collections but got sidetracked, as usual.)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Daniel Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you going to include the three novelettes that make up Fifth Head of
> Cerberus as instances of short stories, or just leave them to one side as a
> one unified piece?  Just curious...
>
> -DOJP
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> I was talking to some list members this weekend, and a very common
>> repetitive theme was that Wolfe's short fiction has recieved short shrift
>> on the list.  SO ... since I will have four weeks in May with very little
>> to do except read or play video games or work out, I have come up with a
>> project for myself from which I thought we could all benefit.
>>
>> I will start with the earliest chronological stories of Gene and proceed
>> with the most basic of summaries, my impressions if I have any that I think
>> are worthwhile, and then perhaps a series of elements that I found
>> confusing or would like to re-examine after I have read through the story
>> twice with notes.  I will be on the look out for repetitive patterns of
>> occurence or words that are used with mysterious misplaced connotation.
>> this would be for the short stories.
>>
>> Obviously I don't think I will have insight into every story, but perhaps
>> my confusion could drudge up some more relevant commentary or other
>> questions.  The problem is ... stuff like the Dickens archipelago story
>> might be beyond my allusive skill, because while I do think I can see
>> patterns, I am actually not the most classically rigorous amongst us -
>> thank a biochemistry degree and a love of numbers.  I might skip entirely
>> oft discussed ones like Seven American Nights and Suzanne Delage in favor
>> of more obscure ones.  As of right now I believe I have every story,
>> collected and uncollected, even the drabble project 100 word one, so if
>> anybody has any suggestions as to something they would like in the format
>> of my initial posts I would be amenable to incorporating it so that we
>> could easily spring into a general discussion.
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