Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frescoes from the Past," in Life on the Mississippi," Mark Twain. For a reason nobody knows, Twain decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gut-laughter and gut-fear. One thing for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
...pour: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven" and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allen Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...
...fairy tale or a foreshadowing...
...Peace changes his life--and shifts the movie into a mixed mode of comedy, musical and social satire. Inspired by his heavy readings--Nietzsche, Camus, and the like--Umstetter pens a prison drama called "Weeds" and directs it in San Quentin. Weeds, the movie, is the tale of Umstetter's exploits once he's been paroled through a campaign initiated by an impressed San Francisco drama critic. Umstetter and his fellow ex-convict thespians take their show on the road...
...school profs of stealing ideas from students and using them to get consulting fees and corporate directorships. Dean John McArthur censures the book for "hundreds of factual errors and fabricated events." Typical of the screaming wounded: Professor Michael Porter, who claims Mark never talked with him before writing a tale of alleged pirating of student concepts in a business-strategy plan for the National Football League. There is talk of libel suits against author and publisher. But Mark stands by his work, saying, "It doesn't surprise me they're not lining up to tell Dean McArthur they spoke with...