samd65
11-10-2002, 04:49 PM
Hi,
My wife gave me for my birthday The Annotated Casey at the bat: A Collection of ballads about the mighty Casey, Edited by Martin Gardner.
I started reading it and it's pretty hilerious with footnotes and references (at least some of them look fabricated), the history and geography of Mudville, the personal history of Casey ("The man who played with Anson on the Old Chicago Team") and an appendix including ballads written in the spirit of "Casey" including one by William Safire about Karpov:
Oh somewhere in this snowy land
The sun is shining bright,
The band plays Shostakovich,
Apparatchik hearts are light,
And somewhere children frolic
And Gorbachev's smile is kind,
But there is no joy in Moscow-
Mighty Karpov has resigned.
I wonder if anyone here knows this book and knows if that's a serious litreture study or a great imagenative fiction.
My wife gave me for my birthday The Annotated Casey at the bat: A Collection of ballads about the mighty Casey, Edited by Martin Gardner.
I started reading it and it's pretty hilerious with footnotes and references (at least some of them look fabricated), the history and geography of Mudville, the personal history of Casey ("The man who played with Anson on the Old Chicago Team") and an appendix including ballads written in the spirit of "Casey" including one by William Safire about Karpov:
Oh somewhere in this snowy land
The sun is shining bright,
The band plays Shostakovich,
Apparatchik hearts are light,
And somewhere children frolic
And Gorbachev's smile is kind,
But there is no joy in Moscow-
Mighty Karpov has resigned.
I wonder if anyone here knows this book and knows if that's a serious litreture study or a great imagenative fiction.