RE: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999

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

I'm not sure that's the best way to say what I mean.  It just seems to me
as if, in order for satire to be especially good, the author should have a
complete understanding of his subject, and of the tools with which he/she
is building his/her satire.

I'll try to come up with an example.


>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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