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Pastimes : Watch Bill Meehan on Wall Street Week, this week!!!
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To: bill meehan who wrote (54)8/1/2000 6:12:39 PM
From: urwhatuis  Read Replies (1) of 138
 
W$W as burlesque...

I thought this quote from the preface to Henry Fielding's 1742 satirical novel "Joseph Andrews" might give some perspective on W$W:

"But perhaps, I have less Abhorrence than he professes for it [Burlesque]: and that not because I have had some little Success on the Stage this way; but rather, as it contributes more to exquisite Mirth and Laughter than any other; and these are probably more wholesome Physic for the Mind, and conduce better to purge away Spleen, Melancholy and ill Affections, than is generally imagined. Nay, I will appeal to common Observation, whether the same Companies are not found more full of Good-Humour and Benevolence , after they have been sweeten'd for two or three Hours with Entertainments of this kind, than when soured by a Tragedy or a grave Lecture."

Here's to purging away spleen! -u
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