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From: haeckel@stolaf.UUCP (Paul C. Haeckel)
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Subject: Re: Re: Metahumor--Bloom County
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 20:20:06 EST
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// Sue Brezden (ihnp4!drutx!slb) says: //
> Bloom County yesterday was a fine example of metahumor.  The first
> three panels introduced a new plot line (Bill the Cat sending compromising
> pictures of Jean Kirkpatrick to the Russians).  The last one described
> this as a literary technique of forshadowing--which you would not find
> in strips like Nancy, but which is used in the finer strips--like this
> one.
> -- 

One of the other examples of metahumor in Bloom County occurred a few
years ago. Yaz Pistachio was feeling very depressed after her school
dance (Steve Dallas escorted her), and she was telling Opus how awful
her name was. "Give me just one name worse than 'Yaz Pistachio,'" she
tells Opus. "Berke Breathed," he replies. "Okay, okay, other than that..."
responds Yaz. (or words to this effect - I don't have the book with me)

-- 

						Paul Haeckel
	"No matter how thin you slice 		{...ihnp4!stolaf!haeckel}
	 it, it's still baloney."			OR
		-'Bloom County'			{...decvax!stolaf!haeckel}