Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: PUPT: Eureka!


--- BFall <bfall-AT-toledolibrary.org> wrote:
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----

> Kenner & All:
> 
> I'm a little behind in my e-mail, so maybe someone's
> already made my point
> (such as it is), but for what it's worth . . .
> Sanitizing folktales seems to
> be a popular pastime of modern America.  The way
> some people tell it, that
> wolf hits the boiling water and flies right back up
> the chimney. 


Which means, of course, that the Big Bad Wolf is still
out there. What a creepy way to end a story! In
storytelling, you have to kill that wolf, and in order
to do that, he has to do something worthy of his fate,
so the first two pigs have to get eaten.

--Jim Maroon


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