Do so. It might be worth it. I was going to relate my own story of an unfindable short story from a textbook anthology, but now that the internet is a few steps closer to self-awareness, I may have found it. The title that stuck in my mind was "Grains of Paradise" and it's about a guy who goes on a mission to find the hottest peppers in the world to eat them, and the titular grains are the oh-so-hot seeds that inspire an almost religious ecstasy among the native pepperphiles. Now, on a site devoted to demonstrating proper bibliography format, one of the entries is:
James Street, "The Grains of Paradise." In Encounters. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979.
Encounters is just the sort of faintly familiar, yet snooze-inducing, title one would expect for a textbook anthology (it's something of a wonder how either of these stories actually made it inside - let's hear it for the slightly subversive librarian-anthologists of yore) and certainly the date is right for my being exposed to it.
It looks like the story first appeared The Saturday Evening Post May 14 1955
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Date: 2006-11-11 01:55 pm (UTC)Do so. It might be worth it. I was going to relate my own story of an unfindable short story from a textbook anthology, but now that the internet is a few steps closer to self-awareness, I may have found it.
The title that stuck in my mind was "Grains of Paradise" and it's about a guy who goes on a mission to find the hottest peppers in the world to eat them, and the titular grains are the oh-so-hot seeds that inspire an almost religious ecstasy among the native pepperphiles.
Now, on a site devoted to demonstrating proper bibliography format, one of the entries is:
James Street, "The Grains of Paradise." In Encounters. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979.
Encounters is just the sort of faintly familiar, yet snooze-inducing, title one would expect for a textbook anthology (it's something of a wonder how either of these stories actually made it inside - let's hear it for the slightly subversive librarian-anthologists of yore) and certainly the date is right for my being exposed to it.
It looks like the story first appeared The Saturday Evening Post May 14 1955