Ignorance Stick Re: Rat-tail(ed) broom

[Dan Goodman]

Sticking to linguistic matters:    Knight was born in 1922 in Baker
City, Oregon.    The first editor to publish the story was Frederik
Pohl, born 1919 in New York City.    It seems likely that "idiot stick"
was common both in the writer's and in the editor's dialects.

Wilson Gray wrote:
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> I recall both Damon Knight and even that title, though, unfortunatelt,
> not the plot of the story. IAC, quelle concidence!
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> -Wilson
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> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
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>> See Damon Knight's sf story "Idiot Stick."
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