it's possible that both authors were responding to the same reality. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:05 AM, soula avramidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "And he began to think of really comical things everywhere, the whole town, > the people walking in the streets, trying to look important, but he knew > they couldnt fool him, he knew how important they were, and the way they > talked, big business, and all of it pompous and fake, and it made him laugh, > and he thought of the preacher at the church, the fake way he prayed, O God, > it is your will, and nobody believing in prayers, and the important people > with big automobiles, Cadillacs and Packards, speeding up and down the > country, as if they had some place to go....and he was laughing at all the > pathetic things in the world, the things good people cried upon... the timid > people being smashed inwardly by the fat and cruel people, fat inside... > And then everything turned upside down, and he was crying, honest and truly > crying, like a baby, as if something has really happened, and he hid his > face in his arms, and his chest was heaving, and he was thinking he did not > want to live...the whole world, in a mess. > Then he began to cry again." > > Saroyan, William (1934). 'Laughter', Daring young man on the flying trapeze: > 191-200. > ________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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