(urth) Short story 2: The Case of the Vanishing ghost

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>

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> We can infer that the ghost is scared of military service, démodé boots, and the 
> magazine itself, so in large part the entire story is an elaborate joke that 
> does not neglect it’s source: a University of Texas magazine that will scare the 
> ghost.

A Texas A&M magazine, apparently.  The point of the package is that UT students are effete, as you say, and scared of anything associated with Texas A&M, where Wolfe and his readers were.
 
(We can also infer that Wolfe became a much better writer during the next twenty or so years.)

Jerry Friedman