Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:56:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerry Friedman 
Subject: Re: (urth) Tracking Down the Hits


--- Michael Straight  wrote:
> Thanks to mantis, John Barach (whose bibliography I've cut/pasted from
> below) and all the others who helped recommend uncollected Wolfe shorts.
> 
> Here's my list of most of the shorts that got recommended by someone,
> with
> a start at trying to order them by how easy they would be to get:
...

> * Loco Parentis, Again, Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison,
>                 Doubleday, 1972.  
> 
> This anthology is pretty common.  In fact, I thought I'd read it.  Is
> "Loco Parentis" about a boy in a treehouse?
...

It's the dialogue between the baby's ape-like father and robot-like
mother.  I like its companion pieces, "Against the Lafayette
Escadrille" and "Robot's Story", considerably better.

Don't forget about interlibrary loan.  They do the tracking down,
and they've never failed me yet.  (I haven't ordered anything as
obscure as _The Best of Crank!_, but they did find me a copy of
Nabokov's _Poems and Problems_, which I think would be at least a
hundred dollars used.)

About Time Dept.: I picked up an interlibrary-loan copy of _The
Fifth Head of Cerberus_ yesterday.  It's enough to make me want to
skip bird-watching this weekend.  Though actually, from the way you
guys are talking about 5HC, getting out in the spring sunshine may
be required!)

Jerry Friedman

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