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From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: "incapacity"/New Formalism
> Linearity & cumulative power were perfectly exemplified in the little
> story told by a grandfather taking care for an afternoon of his
> granddaughter,
> who'd been pestering him all afternoon to tell her a story. The
> grandfather
> (Severn Darden) finally says, "Okay, I'll tell you a story. There was a
> pig.
> It died." The granddaughter (Barbara Harris) wails, "I don't like that
> story!"
> But doesn't deny that she's been told a story.
>
> Hal, remembering the old Second City days in Chicago
>
> "A paranoid is someone who knows a little
> of what's going on."
> --William S. Burroughs
>
> Halvard Johnson
Which proves what? That the idea of "story" can be reduced to that level?
That advanced literature can dismiss "story" because children and
unsophisticates like it?
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