RE: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999

[Troy Hollar <thollar@cohn-wells.com>]

Sorry.  I had a stroke and turned briefly into a despot.  Or an academic.
Or something.

Might I suggest merely that authenticity is crucial to satire?

>Help! Help! I'm bein' suppressed!
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Troy Hollar [SMTP:thollar@cohn-wells.com]
>> Sent:	Thursday, June 17, 1999 2:09 PM
>> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>> Subject:	Re: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999
>>
>> With all due respect:
>>
>> Actually, in literature anywhere (N, S, E or W), prose is a medium (not a
>> genre), and it comprises all that is not verse (the other medium), and
>> vice
>> versa.
>>
>> Genres in literature: story, novel, essay, poem, play, etc.
>>
>> Easterners, let's inform ourselves before we argue, lest we (justifiably)
>> gain a reputation of being sophists.  And let's argue about something a
>> little more interesting than East vs. West, at least as it pertains to NY
>> vs. LA.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >Oh, sorry for the confusion out there. Back east, prose is a book that's
>> >not poetry or plays. More commonly, "prose" = "fiction". So basically,
>> >it's what you in LA call a "storybook,"  Or, maybe a Rand-McNally Road
>> >Atlas counts as prose.
>>
>>