(urth) Short Story 51: How I Lost the Second World War ...

Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 24 06:59:35 PDT 2013


The only significance it had in ww2 as far as I could see was that Ethiopian ruler in exile there and the heavy damage it suffered,  but I have absolutely no knowledge of the banking-commerce-loan infrastructure of England around that time at all.  Good question. 

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On Aug 24, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Mo Holkar <lists at ukg.co.uk> wrote:

> At 21:20 23/08/2013, you wrote:
>> The Bath exposition mentioned in the text – is this similar to the Paris Expositiions of 1937/38 and a kind of transplantation from art to technology, or completely unrelated?
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> I have wondered 'why Bath?' In real life it's a smallish antiquated town, with no industrial tradition, and not at all a likely candidate for the hosting of such an exposition. Yet, being Wolfe, one feels there must be some reason why he chose it.
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