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   David Goldfarb to Dorothy J Heydt   
   Re: worst story title   
   16 Apr 15 01:23:53   
   
   From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   Dorothy J Heydt  wrote:   
   >In article ,   
   >William Vetter   wrote:   
   >>What's the worst you can come up with?   
   >   
   >There were a whole raft of them back in the New Wave days.   
   >Frequently the title was also the last line of the story.  I   
   >nominate Ellison's "I See a Man Who is Standing on a Chair, and   
   >the Chair is Biting His Leg."   
      
   Correcting to be polite:  "I See a Man Sitting in a Chair..."; and   
   it was Ellison and Sheckley, not just Ellison.   
      
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