The magic misfits the second story5/29/2023 ![]() I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far. What if one of them fell into the hands of the authorities? Hanging Colby was doubtless against the law, and if the authorities learned in advance what the plan was they would very likely come in and try to mess everything up. Hugh was worried about the wording of the invitations. It’s a perfect parody of white-collar, red-tape committee nonsense.Īnd that’s quite a trick on Barthelme’s part. It’s brilliantly executed (pardon the pun) here, with the narrator and his crew stumbling over attempts at teamwork. ![]() So this is gonna be a little strange.īarthelme is so good at creating that feeling of the mundane weird. “And now he’d gone too far, so we decided to hang him.” Ah, OK. Making most of the story realistic and mundane except one for one detail: everything ![]() Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme, 1973 ![]()
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