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   David Goldfarb to Dorothy J Heydt   
   Re: worst story title   
   17 Apr 15 02:41:58   
   
   From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   Dorothy J Heydt  wrote:   
   >In article ,   
   >David Goldfarb  wrote:   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >Correction accepted.  It's been *years* since I read it.   
      
   Me too, but that's the kind of trivia I'm good at.   
      
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