From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Copperhead
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:06:36 

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Alex David Groce wrote:

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

Other good Wolfe Short Shorts:

"A Solar Labyrinth," "Westwind," "How the Whip Came Back," "Peritonitis,"
"The War Beneath the Tree," "Useful Phrases" (actually Wolfe's translation
of a Borges short story, but still good).  I also like the one that's in
Peace, the tall-tale about the cat and the big ship, and I also love the
little story about the sidhe at the end of Peace; some people also seem to
like "Suzanne Delage" more than I do.

-Rostrum


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