Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:35:24 -0700
From: ann klefstad <klefkal-AT-cpinternet.com>
Subject: Re: higan


This story is called "The Beggars" and it's found in an old Modern
Library ed. of Dunsany stories called "A Dreamer's Tales and Other
Stories." Dunsany's writing is that oddly pleasing kind that is
ultimately a failure--it's full of bare seams and received information
and bald spots--but in its collapse it produces wonderful shards of
stuff worth picking over. In many ways this is more pleasing than those
sturdy wellmade edifices that pass for good writing. At least for us
crows.

AK

Bill Spornitz wrote:

> 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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