'... particularly pointless.' That was their great attraction for me:
the way they mirrored life.
Androo
On 28/04/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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