SLPAD 3 - mistakes

[Mark Kohut]

I think what he is telling us in "The Small Rain" remarks is, unlike with
that story, the story has to come first...
all the literary references second.......which he surely, surely went on to
do in GR and all the others after Lot 49,
which may have started w "literary" and did not have a major character
qutie interesting enough in her own right.
(Just saying and I LOVE THIS NOVELLA, no matter when TRP says. The
constant, every reading, open-ended
richness of it as it applies to America....reminds me of Yeats' great *Second
Coming* poem, perfectly richly true since the Irish rebellion
thru the Trump Presidency and the Putin invasion. Imo.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 5:21 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’m not a skilled or motivated enough researcher to know who his Signal
> Corps friend was -
> Anybody know?
>
>
> Mistake #1: make it literary
>
> Vis a vis “The Small Rain” - that’s upcoming
> “the main character’s problem was interesting enough to generate a story on
> its own”
> without all the literary references.
>
> Well, I’m glad he didn’t then decide to do without them completely.
>
>
> Mistake #2: bad ear
> Also “The Small Rain”; language is fluid - a generic military accent is an
> interesting concept, isn’t it?
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