Well,, Hal, there is that famous series, George Bush Goes to Harvard- which
is played out as a raw-raw PomPom Girl, Cheer Leader Boy "laugher" (it's
really much sadder)- well, the real sad part is that the story is still
busting and rupturing body parts (of which hernias are just a small number)
and can be found in full display through out hospitals in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and locally, Walter Reed, not far from the residence of the
chief actor, who is now way post Harvard. In fact it is one of the saddest,
most wrenching stupid long running series of which I believe most of us
have been aware for too long a time.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Whoever in this case was Ivo Andric, and The Bridge over the River Drina
> was a great book that had much more than sadness in it, as I recall.
> It's been
> years since I read it.
>
> Hal
>
> "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away,
> for expedients, and by parts."
> --Edmund Burke
>
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> On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Jennifer Compton wrote:
>
>> That Bridge OverThe River Drina book - by whoever - that I simply
>> stopped reading when the mother tried to breastfeed her doomed
>> chiold immured in the bridge - that is a pretty sad book.
>> apparently ex yugo kids had to read it at school
>> when they tell me this i always ask - how? how did you read it?
>>
>> ----Original Message Follows----
>> From: Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap - What is the saddest book ever written?
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:39:59 -0400
>>
>> Funniest novel I ever read, apart from Tristram Shandy, was Snow
>> White, by Donald Barthelme. Runners-up: The Ginger Man, by J. P.
>> Donleavy. Chapel Road, by Louis Paul Boon (Flemish); mordantly
>> funny, deeply melancholy, sharply critical.
>>
>> Since we're talking about novels, I recommend in the strongest
>> possible terms a short novel from around 1900 by Hjalmar Soderberg
>> (umlaut over the o) called Doctor Glas. One of the great classics
>> of Swedish literature. Definitely falls into the "sad" category,
>> but goes way beyond it. Recently translated and published here,
>> with a good intro by Susan Sontag.
>>
>> Most profoundly sad (and moving) modern novel I know is also
>> Swedish - Finno-Swedish: Axel, by Bo Carpelan. Who is also a noted
>> poet. Sort of book that, once you've finish it, makes it hard to
>> get your life started again.
>>
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