Short Story 15: A Method Bit in 'B'

Tony Ellis · 07 Apr 2012, 21:30 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 22:30:12 +0100
Subject: (urth) Short Story 15: A Method Bit in 'B'
Message-ID: <CA+WO8_7k9wtdDRBSy93xYWFSexYsTT-FyKmLKt4UT5mAPM3q7g at mail.gmail.com>

Marc Aramini wrote:

> Stoke-on-wold is a real place near Stratford-on-avon and Upper Slaughter (doesn't England have some great names?)

Actually, that's Stow-on-the-Wold, but excellent job on digging up
those film references.

Stoke-on-Wold sounds like a combination of Stow-on-the-Wold and
Stoke-on-Trent. I used to think it was Wolfe's slightly clumsy attempt
to invent an authentic-sounding English village name, but I realise
now that it could be *deliberately* bad - the sort of thing a
script-writer on a B-movie might have come up with.

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