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LionelEdwards
2024-10-11 22:57:49 UTC
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It doesn't look as though this New Yorker article will
be around much longer, so enjoy it while you can.

“We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like
thin ice breaking...

<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-james-thurber>
Snidely
2024-10-15 11:00:56 UTC
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It doesn't look as though this New Yorker article will
be around much longer, so enjoy it while you can.
“We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like
thin ice breaking...
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-james-thurber>
You do know that there are books of the collected stories of James
Thurber, don't you?

/dps
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Maybe C282Y is simply one of the hangers-on, a groupie following a
future guitar god of the human genome: an allele with undiscovered
virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage.
Bradley Wertheim, theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013
LionelEdwards
2024-10-15 14:54:53 UTC
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It doesn't look as though this New Yorker article will
be around much longer, so enjoy it while you can.
“We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like
thin ice breaking...
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-james-thurber>
You do know that there are books of the collected stories of James
Thurber, don't you?
That suggests we can find other great short stories if we buy
the book? I'm not sure that's the way it works. The greatest
American writer of the 20th Century - in my opinion - was William
Faulkner. "Turnabout" is my no.2.

<https://literaturesave2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/william-faulkner-turnabout.pdf>

If somebody can find me Dubliners online I'll probably find no.3
there - I won't be buying it again. Any other suggestions very
welcome.
Bertel Lund Hansen
2024-10-16 05:02:35 UTC
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That suggests we can find other great short stories if we buy
the book? I'm not sure that's the way it works. The greatest
American writer of the 20th Century - in my opinion - was William
Faulkner. "Turnabout" is my no.2.
<https://literaturesave2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/william-faulkner-turnabout.pdf>
That book would expand my vocabulary no end. From the first paragraph:

Bedfords
the Sam Browne
puttees
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Bertel
Kolt, Denmark
LionelEdwards
2024-10-16 13:49:19 UTC
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It doesn't look as though this New Yorker article will
be around much longer, so enjoy it while you can.
“We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like
thin ice breaking...
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-james-thurber>
You do know that there are books of the collected stories of James
Thurber, don't you?
That suggests we can find other great short stories if we buy
the book? I'm not sure that's the way it works. The greatest
American writer of the 20th Century - in my opinion - was William
Faulkner. "Turnabout" is my no.2.
<https://literaturesave2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/william-faulkner-turnabout.pdf>
If somebody can find me Dubliners online I'll probably find no.3
there - I won't be buying it again. Any other suggestions very
welcome.
Dubliners is here and I now find the style tedious (not as
tedious as Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake fortunately):

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2814-h/2814-h.htm

Hemingway's best known short story is this one, which has a
haunting sadness:

https://www.sfponline.org/Uploads/372/The%20Killers.pdf

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