[meteorite-list] Proud Tom is Back!

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:40 2004
Message-ID: <20031208081609.89910.qmail_at_web10308.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello

I not love jokes.
Regards

Matteo

--- "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com> wrote:
> Matteo,
>
> Of course, you are right: the anonymous author
> is one of the List. I doubt anyone not on
> the List has ever seen or will ever see the Proud
> Tom website. Who else would even know what
> is being spoken of?
> And you are right, he is a "lunatic one." That
> is why no one should or could possibly
> regard Proud Tom as anything other than antic fun,
> satire, horseplay, clown drama, comic
> dumb show, mad mime, burlesque, farce, a fool in
> motley dancing about while slapping
> notables with a pig's bladder blown up with air. Let
> him enjoy the privileges of The Fool
> also.
> He is a creature of the Festa, 12th Night,
> Midsummer's Eve, furious fairies in fanciful
> flight, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, the little people.
> Best not to offend. Besides, recall
> classic farce: he who responds in all gravity to the
> jest of the fool always appears to
> others as the biggest fool of all.
> If so many of the List seem unsympathetic to
> your distaste for Poor Tom O'Bedlam, know
> also that in America one is taught from youngest
> childhood onward to smile and forebear when
> one is the butt of the jest as long as the humor is
> not mean-spirited. Hence, all those on
> the List who have been burlesqued profess to have
> enjoyed it, though some may gnash molars
> in private. It is our way.
> Proud Tom, as a satirist, is a far gentler
> creature than, for example, Pietro Aretino.
> Smile on him and he may find others with whom to
> amuse himself. Or not. But smile.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
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> M come Meteorite Meteorites wrote:
>
> > Reading what lunatic one writes in the site, I see
> the
> > builder of this demential site is one of this list
> > inasmuch as it writes things that only the members
> of
> > the list know. I make mine compliments that idiot,
> > however also this page will go out in few time. I
> do
> > not say what says here from we who makes similar
> > things...a lot you would not understand it
> >
> > Matteo
> >
>


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Received on Mon 08 Dec 2003 03:16:09 AM PST