Hi, Curtis.
CJ> MN> You bet some sucker that he can't get from one side
CJ> MN> of the room to the other by moves of one half progression, [...]
CJ> The setting was long after a disaster
CJ> in Louisiana, and the intellectual narrator used it to get
CJ> revenge on a jock scion.
Yeah, that's the one.
CJ> As a plot, rather forgettable; as a
CJ> story, very memorable.  Felix Gottschalk seems incapable of
CJ> writing an unoriginal style.  (No, I can't remember the story's
CJ> name.  It was in F&SF about a decade ago.)
Probably where I read it, then.  I got a bunch of back copies of F&SF
about a couple of years ago.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Rhodes, you fathead! It's Forty-Niners! Forty-Niners! -KR
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