Laughter is sacred (BE340)

[David Morris]

Horst em body's Earth. A substance usually

On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Martha Rooster-Singh <
martharoostersingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dpayne1912 at hotmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:33:06 -0500, martharoostersingh at gmail.com 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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