RE: [DL] Now I need plot help too!

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 06:00 AM 1/14/00 -0800, you wrote:
>> Interesting side note - I'm reading Mark Twain's Roughing
>> It.  Not exactly
>> a thrilling read, but an interesting one that gives an
>> idea of what life
>> was like "back then".
>> As long as you realize that you are looking through the
>> distorted lens of
>> Clement's sarcasm and satire.  :-)
>
>....and that's a problem, *why?*

You have to step back and remove the sarcasm filter to get a feel of what
things were really like.  It's interesting to read for the aspects of
western life that were so mundane that Clements didn't bother to mock - yet
these aspects are foreign to our perceptions.

Of course - if it wasn't for the satire, this would easily be one of the
most boring things I've ever read outside of a classroom.  :-)




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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Eeyore:
If it did.  Which I doubt.  Not that it matters.