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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:21:00 JST
From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (54)

Judith S. wrote (20 Jul 92):

js) >43) To be fashed (Judith S.)
js) To be troubled, bothered. I first met the word in a ballad I
js) studyed in college, _The Wife of (Somewhere)_ whose three sons
js) were drowned at sea. She cries, "I would that winds would never
js) cease/ Nor fashes in the flood,/ Till my three sons come home to me/
js) In mortal flesh and blood."

js) It's an early version of _The Monkey's Paw_ (an O'Henry story, I
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
js) think, which you can look up and read...it's short).
js) The sons are sent back, but as they were after they were
js) drowned, and they beg their mother to send them back to rest. She
js) does. It's a horrible story, but yet important. One must not hang
js) onto one's dead, but let them go.

js) love, judith
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Judith,

Thank you for answering my Gleanings . . .  I remembered dimly the
author of _The Monkey's Paw_, because we had performed the play
when I was a first-year student at the university.  I checked
again and I found that it was written by W. W. Jacobs [(1863-1943),
English writer.  Author esp. of sea stories as _Many Cargoes_,
etc....; best known for story _The Monkey's Paw_ (1920; dramatized
with L. N. Parker, 1903)] - from _Webster's New Biographical
Dictionary_.  You are right in that it has a touch of O. Henry's
short stories, though, if I remember correctly.
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And Jill W. wrote (20 Jul 92)

jw) >>>available. It may not be until next week, tho, because my sister
jw) >>> the TV critic, is coming for the weekend

jw) Her name is Diane Werts, and she writes for Newsday, which is a Long
jw) Island and New York newspaper.  Her stuff does occasionally go out
jw) over the wires, and might land in other papers.  I've read her
jw) articles in the Denver Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose
jw) Mercury News (at various times).
. . . . . .

jw)   Jill
jw)   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Jill,

The articles from _Newsday_ are often reprinted in _The Daily Yomiuri_,
an English language daily published here in Tokyo, which I subscribe to.
I look for your sister's articles from now on.

Wow!  Anne Burton Harwell and now Jill/Diane Werts!  I am so proud to
know such celebrities in American media!

Now, Gleanings time.  Number 54.  Arigato, arigato, arigato.

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