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The response to the grotesque is humor.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS. . .

Literary theories come and go, but this one stuck with me.  The idea is this: when something seems too terrible to bear, or so awful that it is awkward to respond, you find a laugh in it; and then you realize your laughter is grotesque.

Last night, for instance, my husband and

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I never got to say what I thought.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

Book discussions can be frustrating.  I quit going to the Faculty Wives Book Club about four decades ago, even before they realized the name was sexist.  Whether there is a Faculty Spouse Book Club, I doubt.  In the first place, the invitation would have to go to 1000 or more

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