[lit-ideas] Re: Elmer Gantry Gets the Boot
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:09:12 -0800
Catching this one late...At the end of _Day of the Locust_, Homer Simpson
stomps on a dwarf, I believe.
Now y'all can stop worrying.
flinging kisses hither and yon,
Carol
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From: "Robert Paul" <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Elmer Gantry Gets the Boot
> Eric wrote:
>
>> Homer Simpson is the guy in _Day of the Locust_ who is embroiled in the
>> group lynching of the child actor, isn't he? The guy who moves to LA "for
>> his health"?
>
> He's the guy with the big hands who moves to LA after a bout of pneumonia.
> I don't remember a group lynching?just an apocalyptic scene at the end but
> I think Homer may have precipitated the riot by stomping on a kid who had
> hit him with a rock. Very upbeat book. I used to think Nathaniel West was
> the Next Big Thing (avant la lettre) but I'm not sure I could read him
> again.
>
> Robert Paul
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