Ice Cream Headache

m.driussi · 15 Feb 1997, 15:29 · from whorl-v0003.mbox · original

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From: m.driussi at genie.com
Subject: (whorl) Ice Cream Headache
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 97 15:29:00 GMT
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[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Reply:  Item #5456872 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET#

Dr. Gouvea,

I love Wolfe's short stories, but I confess that on those occassions
when I have read an entire collection through in a day or two, I tend
to get the kind of headache we normally associate with the result of
eating something very cold (like an Orange Julius drink, or a milk shake)
too fast.  Personal weakness.  So I have to limit myself on those
short stories, make the book last at least a week--they are just too
concentrated!

=3Dmantis=3D

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