Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles

Marc Aramini · 07 Jun 2012, 00:41 · from 2012-June.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:41:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles
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"Narrov Valley" could very well be a direct influence.? I read that one years ago - Indian land?? I feel like it might have been a social commentary in some ways on the land that the Indians were given - just kept shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.? Need to look at it again.? I feel like it would be foolish to ignore the impact of contemporaneous short story writers like Lafferty, Ellison, and mayb even Davidson on Wolfe's shorter stuff, I just haven't read enough in the uncollected magazines of the time to really see it (classics are a different matter)

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From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles
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Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5:05 PM

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

RESONANCE WITH OTHER WORKS: This very closely resembles the ?lost in nature? theme of ?Sweet Forest Maid?, and once again there is something just a little bit purposefully hidden about that natural world, almost as if it really is the world of fairies or of a natural pseudo-intelligence hostile to man.
The timing and subject matter remind me of one of R.A. Lafferty's more famous short stories, "Narrow Valley".

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