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
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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
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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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