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LETTERS
"One Upon A Time There Was A Story That Began" This is the (in)complete text of the first
short story in John Barth's collection Lost In The Funhouse. What makes it somewhat unusual is
that it is written on the surface of a moebius strip, thus making the story infinitely long.
The actual clips: (partial list)
- The Book of Three
- The Sot-Weed Factor
- The Kitchen God's Wife
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Middlemarch
- Starship Troopers
- LA Confidential
- Anna Karenina
- Red Mars (I think)
- 1984
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Snow Crash
- Alphabetical Africa
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Name of the Rose
- Lolita
- The Third Policeman
- Interstellar Pig
- Mason & Dixon
- The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
- The Time Machine
- Wuthering Heights
- The Princess Bride
- City of Glass
- Invisible Man (by Ralph Ellison, not Wells)
- Sister Light/Sister Dark
- Smilla Sense of Snow
- A Bend in the River
- The White Dragon
- Morality Play
- The Stranger
- The Remains of the Day
The hidden hint is that there is one exception to the rule that each author's last name begins with the letter s/he is
associated with: that is the excerpt from Barth's own novel _The Sot-Weed Factor_.