Short story 2: The Case of the Vanishing ghost

Jerry Friedman · 24 Mar 2012, 15:19 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short story 2: The Case of the Vanishing ghost
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> From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>

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> We can infer that the ghost is scared of military service, d?mod? boots, and the 
> magazine itself, so in large part the entire story is an elaborate joke that 
> does not neglect it?s source: a University of Texas magazine that will scare the 
> ghost.

A Texas A&M magazine, apparently.? The point of the package is that UT students are effete, as you say, and scared of anything associated with Texas A&M, where Wolfe and his readers were.
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(We can also infer that Wolfe became a much better writer during the next twenty or so years.)

Jerry Friedman

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