-- ....................................................................... W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4000 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 ........................................................................ (4) --------------------------------------------------------------46---- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1992 10:49 -0500 From: HDCHICKERING@amherst Subject: All the "Trout"? Can anyone help me identify a comic novel of college days in which a female student, infuriated by patient Griselda, concocts her own stanzas to make the tale come out right, and when she is supposed to stand at the front of the class and recite her memorization from _The Clerk's Tale_, she comes out with this instead: Whan that Grisilde's doghter was ytaken She silently devysed hire a planne For to revenge swich deed she wold not slaken Though Walter bynne a markys and a manne. Whil in her veynes the fury swifte yrannne, To Walter chambre stoleth shee by nighte, And whispred, "Yor dere wyf namoore I highte." Up reyse she hir axe as up he sterte And cleved she his manhood right in tweyne. "Ye be nat fitte to lyve, withouten herte," Said she, whil Walter clutch'd himself in peyne. "Next comes yor nekke; the blood will flow like reyne! Me liketh not to soffre as ye heste. Yor kyngdom now is myne!" She axed his breste. This has been passed on to me only in an incomplete excerpt from an unidentified anthology. The heading is "More Schooling: The 'Trout,' 1958," which I believe is a play on "trouthe." I'm not sure whether the title on either side of the colon is authentic or invented for the anthology. The narrator is a young woman, and the scene is set at Columbia University. Howell Chickering HDCHICKERING@AMHERST (5) --------------------------------------------------------------34---- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 17:40:00 EDT From: swiftdon@edinboro.edu Subject: Holocaust This is the first time I have sent a question to The Humanist. I hope I am doing this correctly. I wonder if any members have thoughts on whether religion was a source of strength for Jews who managed to survive in the concentration camps. Am aware of the opposite view, but believe there must be much evidence to support the proposition that religious belief did sustain many survivors. Comments would be appreciated. Don Swift Edinboro University of Pa. ( south of Erie)