Re: [FRIAM] Science fiction query?

2021-08-02 Thread thompnickson2
Geez Steve. Benet!!??. I cut my eye-teeth on John Brown’s Body and Civil War studies at the age of 12, in the 7th grade. Do you remember Melora Vilis and the hay loft? Lot’s of buzz when we got to that passage. You’ld think I would have remembered, therefore, if it was Benet

Re: [FRIAM] Science fiction query?

2021-08-02 Thread Steve Smith
Perhaps Stephen Vincent Benét's _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 tho

[FRIAM] Science fiction query?

2021-08-02 Thread thompnickson2
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 https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ...