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September 29, 2004Known but to James Morrow and Patrick Seitz...
An odd moment the other night. I was reading James Morrow's Bible Stories for Adults when I came across "Known But to God and Wilbur Hines," a story narrated posthumously by the spirit of the corpse interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Although the overall thrust of Morrow's story is different than that of the one I'm working on currently, I hit a section of his story that mirrored mine almost exactly (a WWII soldier and French whore getting in an argument over money that only gets worse when she threatens to accuse him of rape, and the whole conflict). And I know that I've never read this story before, so it's not that I'm subconsciously swiping Morrow's work. He's a really good writer, though, so I can at least content myself that he and I are lapping from the same wellspring of literary inspiration. It sure beats being beaten to the short-story-idea punch by some hack...
Posted by patrick at September 29, 2004 02:10 PM
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