I've never understood the three stooges either. Yet most double acts
rely on great cruelty, mental or otherwise. I can't think of one which
didn't involve some sort of humiliation one way or another. The three
stooges just seem particularly pointless.
Roger
On 4/27/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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