Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:11:26 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-pangea.ca>
Subject: Re: higan


ann wrote

>I like the one where the beggars come through town preceded by the 
>barking dogs, and proceed to tell the grimly urban elements the 
>lovely fates they are destined for.

Oooh! Oooh! What is this story called? Do you know?


>Why do fabliaux seem so appealing lately? Fullthroated earnestness 
>wrapped in a lie?


Vonnegut's foma? - harmless truths, intended to comfort? (alas, I 
fear that they aim to comfort the *uncomfortable*...)

b


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