Posthumous corn

Nicholas Gevers · 08 Feb 2000, 10:24 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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Subject: (urth) Posthumous corn
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:24:15
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On the traffic jam stories in ST: I remember Wolfe
saying in his original note on "Bluesberry Jam" in
SPACE OPERA that an actual incident involving a
protracted traffic jam inspired the story. And re the
"Hey, I'm dead!" cliche in "Ain't You 'Most Done?":
Wolfe has done this rather often, but as a conclusion
to the collection, it has a usefully redemptive
significance after much preceding gloom: Benson seems Heavenbound.
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