Geez Steve. Benet!!!!!!??????????. I cut my eye-teeth on John Browns Body and Civil War studies at the age of 12, in the 7th grade. Do you remember Melora Vilis and the hay loft? Lots of buzz when we got to that passage.
Yould think I would have remembered, therefore, if it was Benet I had read. My present theory is that somebody reupped it in the fifties and I read it then. Thanks, Steve, for connecting up two fragments of my past. Gosh, for somebody who sometimes plays a libertarian redneck on TV, you sure do know a heluva lot of STUFF about a heluva lot of STUFF! Hats off! Nick Nick Thompson <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Monday, August 2, 2021 2:33 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science fiction query? Perhaps Stephen Vincent Benét's Metropolitan Nightmare <https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare> , a prose poem published in 1933, just 4 years after his Pulitzer Prize winning John Brown's Body ? These being the closing lines: "Say, buddy," he said, "You'd better look out for those ants. They eat wood, you know, They'll have your shack down in no time." The watchman spat. "Oh, they've quit eating wood," he said, in a casual voice, "I thought everybody knew that." and, reaching down, He pried from the insect jaws the bright crumb of steel. On 8/2/21 8:25 AM, thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: Does anybody remember a science fiction phantasy concerning a summer so hot in New York that the termites started eating the steel? n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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