Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


10 May 95 22:33:53 GMT

whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu (Gerry Kevin Wilson) writes:

>Heh, you just don't have any patience. Would I be recommending them if I
>hadn't read them? Of course, it does get kind of irritating when you're
>recursed into a story within a story within a story within a story within
>a story. I've counted up to six levels of recursions. Yeesh.

John Barth's "Menelaiad", found in the book _Lost in the Funhouse_, nests
seven deep. And it's a short story. Just thought I'd mention it.

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