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	'''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in {{ISFDB\|262551\|''New Worlds'' #1}}, 1971.		'''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in {{ISFDB\|262551\|''New Worlds'' #1}}, 1971.

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-'''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?262551 ''New Worlds'' #1], 1971.
+'''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in {{ISFDB|262551|''New Worlds'' #1}}, 1971.
-This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'', by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long out of print, ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>Delany, Samuel (2014) [1st pub. 1978]. ''The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"''. Middletown, Conn.: [http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press]. ISBN 0819567183</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.
+This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'', by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long out of print, ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>{{cite book|author=Delany, Samuel|date=1978|pub-date=2014|title=The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"|location=Middletown, Conn.|publisher=[http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press]|isbn=0819567183}}</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.
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 === Miss Kraus ===
-An actual woman by this name was a prominent sign-carrying paranoiac in New York in Disch's time and had been for many years. A 1960 report described her thus:<ref>Batterberry, Michael; Batterberry, Ariane (1973). ''On the Town in New York, from 1776 to the Present''. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684133751 </ref>
+An actual woman by this name was a prominent sign-carrying paranoiac in New York in Disch's time and had been for many years. A 1960 report described her thus:<ref>{{cite book|author=Batterberry, Michael, and Batterberry, Ariane|date=1973|title=On the Town in New York, from 1776 to the Present|location=New York|publisher=Scribner|isbn=9780684133751}}</ref>
 <blockquote>On Forty-Fourth Street, Mrs. Sylvia Kraus ... carried a placard reading: "Americans Awake—Germ Warfare Has Begun." "I know that people are putting things in my food," she told crowds in the street. "They've been trying to eliminate me since 1956, but I know how to combat it."</blockquote>

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 === Miss Kraus ===
-An actual woman by this name was a prominent sign-carrying lunatic in New York in Disch's time and had been for many years. A 1960 report described her thus:<ref>Batterberry, Michael; Batterberry, Ariane (1973). ''On the Town in New York, from 1776 to the Present''. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684133751 </ref>
+An actual woman by this name was a prominent sign-carrying paranoiac in New York in Disch's time and had been for many years. A 1960 report described her thus:<ref>Batterberry, Michael; Batterberry, Ariane (1973). ''On the Town in New York, from 1776 to the Present''. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684133751 </ref>
 <blockquote>On Forty-Fourth Street, Mrs. Sylvia Kraus ... carried a placard reading: "Americans Awake—Germ Warfare Has Begun." "I know that people are putting things in my food," she told crowds in the street. "They've been trying to eliminate me since 1956, but I know how to combat it."</blockquote>

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−	'''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in ''New Worlds'', 1971.	+	'''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?262551 ''New Worlds'' #1], 1971.

	This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'', by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long out of print, ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>Delany, Samuel (2014) [1st pub. 1978]. ''The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"''. Middletown, Conn.: [http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press]. ISBN 0819567183</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.		This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'', by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long out of print, ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>Delany, Samuel (2014) [1st pub. 1978]. ''The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"''. Middletown, Conn.: [http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press]. ISBN 0819567183</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.

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 === a teevee executive. In, as he would quip, both senses ===
-Bill's father works in television; the joke is unclear, but he may mean that "TV" can also stand for "transvestite" (an archaic usage but one that would've been understood in 1971).
+Bill's father works in television; the joke is unclear, but he may mean that "TV" could also stand for "transvestite" (an archaic usage but one that would've been understood in 1971).
 === a Dostoevsky, a Gide, a Mailer ===

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 This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'', by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long out of print, ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>Delany, Samuel (2014) [1st pub. 1978]. ''The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"''. Middletown, Conn.: [http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press]. ISBN 0819567183</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.
-== Summary ==
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-<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Seven prepubescent children at an exclusive school decide to experiment with gratuitous crime: they plan to murder a stranger they've been observing in Battery Park. The children flirt with the idea all summer but eventually all drop out, except for the ringleader, Bill—a.k.a. Little Mister Kissy Lips—who is determined to follow through.</div>
+Seven prepubescent children at an exclusive school decide to experiment with gratuitous crime: they plan to murder a stranger they've been observing in Battery Park. The children flirt with the idea all summer but eventually all drop out, except for the ringleader, Bill—a.k.a. Little Mister Kissy Lips—who is determined to follow through.
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 '''"Angouleme"''' is the fifth section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in ''New Worlds'', 1971.
-This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'' (1978), by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long [http://mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2008/09/delanys-jewel-hinged-jaw-june-2009.html?showComment=1242351540000#c8901404966216879790 out of print], ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>''The American Shore'', Samuel R. Delany ([http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press], 2014)</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.
+This section is unique in that it inspired an entire book-length critical essay, ''The American Shore'', by Disch's fellow New Wave SF writer Samuel R. Delany, which analyzed the novella in literally sentence-by-sentence (sometimes word-by-word) detail. Delany considered "Angouleme" the foremost example of the science fiction genre's flexibility, in that it is clearly speculative yet has nothing to do with scientific premises. Long [http://mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2008/09/delanys-jewel-hinged-jaw-june-2009.html?showComment=1242351540000#c8901404966216879790 out of print], ''The American Shore'' is now available in a new edition<ref>Delany, Samuel (2014) [1st pub. 1978]. ''The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme"''. Middletown, Conn.: [http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/ Wesleyan University Press]. ISBN 0819567183</ref>. Whenever "Delany" is cited below, the reference is to this book.
 == Summary ==