Copperhead

Alex David Groce · 04 May 2001, 11:27 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Copperhead
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:27:23
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alga wrote:

> Not me. A dumb little throwaway. What is with that urge to speak in
> tongues, anyway? Do you suppose he does it at dinner parties? Yikes.

Are there more than a handful of Wolfe stories this short* that
_aren't_ weird little throwaways?  I didn't find this one particularly
obnoxious, other than that ultra-irritating "alien woman speak with
forked tongue" dialect, just par for the course.

Wolfe should stick to novelette length, at least.  And avoid trying to
be Lafferty.

* "Three Million Square Miles," "A Cabin on the Coast," and... there
must be something else slipping my mind.

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