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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
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Subject: Re: Stacks for kids...
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Date: 14 Mar 88 16:29:31 GMT
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Several years ago there was an article in the New Yorker by Bruno Bettelheim
(sp) in which he defended fairy tales that had acts of cruelty,
dismemberment and the like because they were a valuable means for a child to
become aware of his/her darker side. A little _shadenfreude_ doesn't seem to
cause brain damage...

It's too bad for the Goodenough's that they were made fun of by "Hell"
(which I haven't seen), but in a way it is a tribute in that the original
stack would hardly be worth the trouble to parody if it were not charming. 
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Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
Center for Design of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University