RE: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

Now that is an interesting statement. Why is authenticity crucial to satire?
That doesn't immediately strike me as true. Please elaborate.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Troy Hollar [SMTP:thollar@cohn-wells.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 17, 1999 3:21 PM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	RE: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999
> 
> 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.
> >>
> >>
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