[FRIAM] Science fiction query?

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

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 I had read.
My present theory is that somebody reupped it in the fifties and I read it
then.

 

Thanks, Steve, for connecting up two fragments of my past.  Gosh,  for
somebody who sometimes plays a libertarian redneck on TV, you sure do know a
heluva lot of STUFF about a heluva lot of STUFF!  

 

Hat’s off!

 

Nick 

 

 

Nick Thompson

 <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/>
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, August 2, 2021 2:33 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science fiction query?

 

Perhaps Stephen Vincent Benét's Metropolitan Nightmare
<https://poets.org/poem/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 those ants. They eat wood, you know,
They'll have your shack down in no time."
                                                          The watchman spat.
"Oh, they've quit eating wood," he said, in a casual voice,
"I thought everybody knew that."
                                             —and, reaching down,
He pried from the insect jaws the bright crumb of steel.

 

 

On 8/2/21 8:25 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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

ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 





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