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5wk5Essays
03-08-2006, 08:45 PM
By Donald Barthelme, what are your thoughts on it? It's the short story of to men waiting for a message to appear on the consule, which may or may not come. It will tell them to fire the missile, they've been underground for 137 days, and are beginning to madden. It is a attached file.
Logos
03-08-2006, 08:49 PM
Are you Donald Barthelme 5wk5Essays?
Stanislaw
03-08-2006, 09:01 PM
It is interesting, but I am not sure that I see the exact moral of the story...people in confined locations go nuts over time?
5wk5Essays
03-09-2006, 09:11 PM
Obviously you don't know the author, LOGOS. Maybe you shouldn't be in a literature forum...
Ryduce
03-09-2006, 09:28 PM
Obviously you don't know the author, LOGOS. Maybe you shouldn't be in a literature forum...




Is it just me or was that remark kinda mean?
5wk5Essays
03-09-2006, 09:36 PM
This title could signify the “game” in which the U.S. played during the years America fought communism. The jacks represent individual countries snatched by the “players” who are countries in effort to impart their governing type. The prevailing struggle of communism in the world stage is the game in which all countries played.
Shotwell in black trunks with the Beretta strapped to his right calf” represents Russia no longer hiding their militaristic capabilities or the fact that it is trying to bring the whole world to communism.
5wk5Essays
03-11-2006, 02:00 PM
He is a very famous writer.
Whifflingpin
03-11-2006, 03:07 PM
"He is a very famous writer."

Indeed, and still in copyright - so publishing his work, in word documents, on the net could lead to legal action, if you don't happen to be he.
5wk5Essays
03-11-2006, 07:05 PM
Not true Whifflingpin, it's the same as photocoping a a work for a class to read. And I got in from the elements on literature online textbook, where i am a registered user. Access granted viz purchase of the hard cover textbook.
Whifflingpin
03-11-2006, 08:09 PM
Ah well, if you've already tested it the courts then, I guess you're right.

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Logos
03-11-2006, 09:37 PM
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
5wk5Essays
03-12-2006, 12:01 PM
Since it is perfectly legal, it was never taken to court, Copyright (c) 1996 The Estate of Donald Barthelme