From: m.driussi@genie.com
Subject: (urth) NYRSF No. 95
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 97 01:38:00 GMT


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Reply:  Item #6626423 from URTH@LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#

Re: "Seven American Nights," heads up!  There is a good essay on this
and a couple of other Wolfe stories in "New York Review of Science Fiction
No. 95" (alga ought to have a contributor's copy of this issue).
Locey incorporates and responds to the Gordon interpretation: for one
thing, she claims that the sixth day is Good Friday rather than
Easter; and that by counting back from here we see Nadan arriving in
the foreign city on Palm Sunday; that there is no "missing day"; etc.

There's also a lot of info on the real theatrical plays involved; and
how the real plays differ from those presented in the story.  Neat stuff.

=mantis=