Absolutely! I couldn't cope with Laurel and Hardy. I remember one scene
where one of them was in hospital with his leg in traction, and the other
out of the window swinging from the injured leg -- the whole cinema in
paroxysms of laughter and me positively cringing. Lord knows how anyone
could ever think such things were funny.
But I've sometimes wondered if my life would have been different if I'd had
a sense of humour.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Compton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: saddest book ever written? most repellent?
> there is nothing that one man will not do to another
>
> i was raised without tv and my family would always go to the Kinema in
> Kilbunie for the Friday film.
> In those days there was always a newsreel and a short film - often the
> three stooges
> i could not take the three stooges - they were so cruel to each other -
> stapling each others fingers and chucking pies in each others faces - I
> would begin hyperventilating and my mother would hiss at me - go outside -
> so i would stroll up and down the foyer - hardly ever made it to the main
> movie
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: saddest book ever written? most repellent?
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:19:05 -0400
>
> Jennifer Compton wrote:
>>The Bridge Over The River Drina doesn't suck - but it is way too much for
>>me. It describes horrors - the same sort of horrors that happened and
>>still happen - and I know they happen, but in the book they got right
>>under my skin and I simply couldn't read on.
>
> I wish people would quite REMINDING me of stuff. Disgust and horror? I
> give you Mario Vargas Llosa's *The Feast of the Goat*, a presumed fiction
> about the last days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican dictator.
> Included are his grotesque pedophilia, his assassination, and the
> post-assassination revenges perpetrated by his two sons Ramfis and
> Radames. The fact that Llosa turns Trujillo into something resembling a
> fully rounded human being makes him even more appalling than his political
> acts, which included the massacre of hundreds of Haitian refugees.
>
> ken
>
> ------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> "It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to
> laugh at that man."
>
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