Short Story 51: How I Lost the Second World War ...

Mo Holkar · 24 Aug 2013, 09:50 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:50:57 +0100
Subject: (urth) Short Story 51: How I Lost the Second World War ...
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At 21:20 23/08/2013, you wrote:
>The Bath exposition mentioned in the text ? is 
>this similar to the Paris Expositiions of 
>1937/38 and a kind of transplantation from art 
>to technology, or completely unrelated?


I have wondered 'why Bath?' In real life it's a 
smallish antiquated town, with no industrial 
tradition, and not at all a likely candidate for 
the hosting of such an exposition. Yet, being 
Wolfe, one feels there must be some reason why he chose it.

Mo


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