(urth) summer project idea

[Daniel Petersen]

Are you going to include the three novelettes that make up Fifth Head of
Cerberus as instances of short stories, or just leave them to one side as a
one unified piece?  Just curious...

-DOJP

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I was talking to some list members this weekend, and a very common
> repetitive theme was that Wolfe's short fiction has recieved short shrift
> on the list.  SO ... since I will have four weeks in May with very little
> to do except read or play video games or work out, I have come up with a
> project for myself from which I thought we could all benefit.
>
> I will start with the earliest chronological stories of Gene and proceed
> with the most basic of summaries, my impressions if I have any that I think
> are worthwhile, and then perhaps a series of elements that I found
> confusing or would like to re-examine after I have read through the story
> twice with notes.  I will be on the look out for repetitive patterns of
> occurence or words that are used with mysterious misplaced connotation.
> this would be for the short stories.
>
> Obviously I don't think I will have insight into every story, but perhaps
> my confusion could drudge up some more relevant commentary or other
> questions.  The problem is ... stuff like the Dickens archipelago story
> might be beyond my allusive skill, because while I do think I can see
> patterns, I am actually not the most classically rigorous amongst us -
> thank a biochemistry degree and a love of numbers.  I might skip entirely
> oft discussed ones like Seven American Nights and Suzanne Delage in favor
> of more obscure ones.  As of right now I believe I have every story,
> collected and uncollected, even the drabble project 100 word one, so if
> anybody has any suggestions as to something they would like in the format
> of my initial posts I would be amenable to incorporating it so that we
> could easily spring into a general discussion.
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