Even Cathy Berberian knows...she can't sing

[Robin Landseadel]

Oh, I'm sorry sir -- this is abuse.

Now if you play real nice, maybe we'll show the the Masonic handshake.

On Sep 11, 2010, at 6:16 PM, M Choakumchild wrote:

> Are we talking about modernism & novels? Assume we are. Between 1900  
> and 1930 revolutionary developments took place in the novel. These  
> developments involved new subject matter, style, technique, and led  
> ultimately to a radical rethinking of the relationship between  
> fiction and reality. This era in the history of the novel, like the  
> corresponding periods in the history of drama, poetry, and other  
> arts, is now widely known as Modernism.
>
> see Bloomsbury Guide or any other Handbook to Literature ( I like  
> Harmon & Holmon)
>
> Are we talking about modernism & the American novel? Assume we are.  
> American literature is essentially a modern, recent and  
> international literature.
>
> see _From Puritanism T Postmodernism: A History of American  
> Literature_ Ruland & Bradbury
>
>
> Are we talking modernist & postmodernist (empahisis on the "ist"  
> ending)? and modernism & postmodernism (empahisis on the "ism"  
> ending)?
>
> see _Postmodernist Fiction_, McHale, Brian
>
> Welcome to the Circumlocution Office. Now, I would like to buy a  
> fish license for my pet parrot Pavlov who sells arguments at  
> Humpty's dump a dollar a dozen.
>
> Post Urn Mod Horn Mute,
>
> Mr. M'Choakumchild