doctorzb

But isn't "rambling incoherently about bizarre topics, all based on an extrapolation from a single line of text" the very definition of literary analysis?

-Zac

Ecrasez L'infame

Hey, Chris. You've got a handful of general positions. What about releasing another paragraph so we can test 'em against it? "Another fragment discovered in cave 47".

Chris Weimer

I'd like to wait a little bit longer, if that's ok. There are indeed a handful of positions out there, but nothing so refined and well-argued as I know you all can do.

doctorzb

'm not sure if there is much to be waiting for as the thread is reaching rigor mortis pretty quickly.

-Zac

Chris Weimer

I'd be sorry if everyone just lost interest, but there's not a whole lot I can do to stop it. Perhaps I should have taken it to a more scholarly environment. :huh:

Spanky

Maybe you should have, Chris. Maybe you should have.

johno

I wonder if it's a parody, one included in a well-known humorous novel---that I haven't read.

It reminds me of the work of an English humorist, Alan Coren, who wrote the 'Gollies Karamazov' which is a skit on 'Crime and Punishment' based on the characters Noddy and Bigears from children's books by Enid Blyton, probably not too familiar to people in America, but inescapable to children in Britain. Coren wrote a number of these skits including an interview with Winnie the Pooh, who, in later life tried to escape the embarrassing whimsy of his relationship with Christopher Robin, and attempted to write stories about the adventures of Sir Edward Bear, MC, reminiscent of the adventures of Richard Hannay. At the end of the interview the interviewer asks if poor old Winnie the Pooh needs anything, and he replies, sadly, 'Have them send up a bottle of gin'.

I haven't read the book, but I vaguely remembering hearing about it: could it be 'The British Museum is falling down' by David Lodge?

johno

ps I posted this in the other thread in the games sub-forum. I'd like to find out the answer, so I am posting here as well.

robto

Boy, Chris, you really know how to ruin a good joke by beating it to death.

Johann_Kaspar

The shortest jokes are the best ones.

Nazaroo

When are you going to realise that he just strung a bunch of song titles together and rearranged them into a 'poem'?

The joke is too long to be funny.

Here's how to tell a joke:

A man went to the doctor. Doctor said they would have to amputate. "I'm getting a second opinion!" the man stomped off. The second doctor said,
"Relax! You don't have to have it cut off!..."
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