Chapter 4 (gof spoilers) discussion.

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Chapter 4 (gof spoilers) discussion.
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Date: 8/5/00 5:09 am  (ET)

> Ionesco - who?

Eugene Ionesco. Invented Theater of the Absurd, in which the actors say
strange and irrelevant things that are in the script. It is said that he
got that idea from the stupid sample dialogues in the textbook from which
he learned English. The Rhinocerus is his play about a French town in
which all the people turn (almost gradually) into rhinoceri (metaphor for
Nazis) except for one man. When he is the last human left, I believe the
rhinoceri trample him to death. There was a movie of it. I am sure that,
like most non-HP questions that come up (e.g. recipe for spotted dick,
what does 'truncate' means, etc), further information could be found by
Web searching.