The End is Near

As Polly said to Manuel in the "Basil the Rat" episode of Fawlty Towers..."Prepare yourself for a shock!" Our hero Stephen Crane has less than a week's worth of life left in him! Right now he & Cora are at a health spa in Badenweiler, Germany, being attended to by the finest quack doctors. Granted, this all happened back in 1900. I'm not so good at math but i'll call that 109 years ago. Still for those of us who love Stephen Crane, the passage of time doesn't blunt the impact of his death any. Imagine the body of work he would have created had he lived to a decent age! Imagine the wealth of Crane artifacts we'd have if he only would have survived into the 1940's or '50's! How would World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II have influenced Mr. Crane's work. Ugh, we'll never know for sure! These are sad days for us! Check back in June 5th for more wailing and lamentation...