Order By Check?
Dates: 4/11/02,4:27 PM through 4/16/02,2:11 PM (4 postings)
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FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <fladmin@webrary.org>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 4:27 PM
Is anyone familiar with a short story entitled "Order by Check" or "Ordered
by Check"? (I'm afraid that's the only information I can offer.)
FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/12/02, 3:03 PM
I don't know of such a story, but since I've seen no other answers to
this query, I'm going to take a very wild guess and wonder if the
story your client is really thinking of might be "Computers Don't
Argue" by Gordon R. Dickson. It's one of those stories that gets
asked about frequently in forums like this and of which requestors
rarely can recall title or author, and it does involve a person who
gets into a mail "argument" with an automated book club system over
an alleged unpaid bill, in which things escalate horrifically.
As I said, a wild guess,
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu
FROM: Nancy Maltby Henkel <nancym@kcls.org>
REC'D: 4/16/02, 11:42 AM
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Fiction_L Administrator wrote:
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> From: "Rolf Laun" <rlaun@sanantonio.gov>
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> Is anyone familiar with a short story entitled "Order by Check" or "Ordered
> by Check"? (I'm afraid that's the only information I can offer.)
Nancy Maltby Henkel
Maple Valley Library; Maple Valley, WA
King County Library System "After 3 days without
e-mail: nancym@kcls.org reading, talk becomes
phone: (425) 432-4620 flavorless."
--Chinese Proverb
FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/16/02, 2:11 PM
Author: Vacca, Richard T.
Title: Content area reading / Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. Vacca.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1986.
Description: xvi, 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Author: Vacca, Jo Anne L.
Title: Reading and learning to read / Jo Anne L. Vacca, Richard T.
Vacca, Mary K. Gove.
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1987.
Description: xiv, 530 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu
At 09:36 AM 4/16/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi. I think the story you refer to is "Ordeal by Cheque" by Wuther Crue.
>There is no prose in the story, only a series of checks written by a man
>named Laurence Exeter. Follows a man's life, courting his wife, possibly
>paying off a girl friend, a funeral--that sort of thing. Although I
couldn't lay
>my hands on my copy (buried in a box of college stuff), I remember that
>the story originally appeared in Vanity Fair sometime in the 1930's.
>However, I think it still makes the rounds in a lot of English courses.
> I hope this is the story you are after.
>--Nancy Henkel
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>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Fiction_L Administrator wrote:
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>> From: "Rolf Laun" <rlaun@sanantonio.gov>
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>> Is anyone familiar with a short story entitled "Order by Check" or "Ordered
>> by Check"? (I'm afraid that's the only information I can offer.)
>
>
>Nancy Maltby Henkel
>Maple Valley Library; Maple Valley, WA
>King County Library System "After 3 days without
>e-mail: nancym@kcls.org reading, talk becomes
>phone: (425) 432-4620 flavorless."
> --Chinese Proverb
>
>
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