Laughter is sacred (BE340)

[Martha Rooster-Singh]

Yep, she gets in a good guffaw with friend Heidi, though, as the
girlfriends let loose with laughter they become self conscious imagining
how they must look like a couple of cackling grandmothers. Horst seems cut
from the cloth that Lake Wobegon spun off from the prairie home, so he
prefers live music and radio drama. There is something sacred in that, even
it too a been Tubed.

On Thursday, January 16, 2014, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:33:06 -0500, martharoostersingh at gmail.com<javascript:;>wrote:
>
> > She does laugh. Doesn't she? While droll and wry, and because the author
> has elected to use her narrative for most of the book, her sense of humor
> is very close to the implied author's
>
> Oops, yes, I was remembering how we're told that Horst rarely laughs.
> Although come to think of it, does the story ever tell, show, or imply that
> Maxine's laughing? Maybe that just doesn't happen much in books?
>
> Of course you're right that she has a sense of humor, mostly coming out
> too wry to be appropriately accompanied with a laugh.
>
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