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Re: "Everybody knows Joe"

by Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 19, 2008 at 08:18 PM

On Apr 18, 5:24=A0am, netcat <net...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> So I just read this Kornbluth short-short. And at one level it's a very
> simple and clear story. Except for the fact that there seemingly is no
> SFnal content. But there _is_ a narrator who shouldn't exist.
>
> So is this simply a tale told by Joe's conscience, or should we read
> more into this?

I didn't read any more into it, but that's just me. Fow what it's
worth, here are the editorial blurbs from the original magazine
publication:

"At least two persons live in each of us. At least one of them is
Joe."

"For a young man Cyril Kornbluth has {. . . .] We are delighted to
present him in a little story that should scare the pants off
everybody."
 




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"Everybody knows Joe"
netcat <netcat@[EMAIL   2008-04-18 13:24:27 
Re: "Everybody knows Joe"
Butch Malahide <fred.g  2008-04-19 20:18:05 

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