Can Or can't Redux (Thomas Wolfe‪)‬

Anne Ponder, newly installed chancellor at UNC-Asheville, was the banquet speaker for the Wolfe Society meeting in Chapel Hill last May. "Coming Home" by Tommy Hays for the September 2006 issue of Our State magazine is a profile of Ponder. Hays writes: "Some may say you can't go home again, but for Dr. Anne Ponder, her formative years in Asheville set the stage for her new role as UNC-Asheville Chancellor" (154). Two characters in Larry McMurtry's novel Loop Group (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004; paperback 2005) discuss the famous phrase during their return trip to Los Angeles after a visit to a relative in Texas: