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FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 2:41 PM

Here's a stumper for you all. It's not precisely fiction, but definitely
literary. The patron remembers reading an essay, probably in college in the
late sixties but maybe even in high school a few years earlier. It was a
humorous piece, told from the point of view of a student struggling to come
up with examples of various literary terms (synedoche, etc.). The one which
stumps him is the concept of as he describes it, "the container for the
thing contained." Everything he comes up with does not satisfy the teacher.
He thinks it may be Thurber, but our Thurber collection is pitifully small,
has lousy bibliographic records with no contents listing, and is mostly out
at the moment. Does anyone recognize this and know the actual name and
author of the essay and where it might be found? TIA.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 2:51 PM

It is James Thurber, but I can't remember the title of the essay.

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Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Rindfleisch [[removed]@biblio.org]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:31 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: "Container for the Thing COntained" Essay


Here's a stumper for you all. It's not precisely fiction, but definitely
literary. The patron remembers reading an essay, probably in college in the
late sixties but maybe even in high school a few years earlier. It was a
humorous piece, told from the point of view of a student struggling to come
up with examples of various literary terms (synedoche, etc.). The one which
stumps him is the concept of as he describes it, "the container for the
thing contained." Everything he comes up with does not satisfy the teacher.
He thinks it may be Thurber, but our Thurber collection is pitifully small,
has lousy bibliographic records with no contents listing, and is mostly out
at the moment. Does anyone recognize this and know the actual name and
author of the essay and where it might be found? TIA.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 2:51 PM

I am pretty sure this is Thurber, I'll take a look at our collection
tonight, and let you know if I find it.

Barry

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Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
Adult Services Director Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4053
[removed]@mail.wrl.org FAX: 757-259-4079
http://www.wrl.org/REF/Bookweb_Main.html
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Mary Rindfleisch wrote:

> Here's a stumper for you all. It's not precisely fiction, but definitely
> literary. The patron remembers reading an essay, probably in college in the
> late sixties but maybe even in high school a few years earlier. It was a
> humorous piece, told from the point of view of a student struggling to come
> up with examples of various literary terms (synedoche, etc.). The one which
> stumps him is the concept of as he describes it, "the container for the
> thing contained." Everything he comes up with does not satisfy the teacher.
> He thinks it may be Thurber, but our Thurber collection is pitifully small,
> has lousy bibliographic records with no contents listing, and is mostly out
> at the moment. Does anyone recognize this and know the actual name and
> author of the essay and where it might be found? TIA.
>
> Mary Rindfleisch
> Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
> Ridgefield Library
> 472 Main St.
> Ridgefield, CT 06877
> Phone: 203-438-2282
> e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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FROM: "bielke-rodenbiker, jean" <[removed]@hclib.org>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 3:02 PM

It's "Here Lies Miss Groby"


Jean Bielke-Rodenbiker
Adult Services Librarian
Southdale Popular Library
Hennepin County Library, MN

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Rindfleisch [[removed]@biblio.org]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:31 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: "Container for the Thing COntained" Essay


Here's a stumper for you all. It's not precisely fiction, but definitely
literary. The patron remembers reading an essay, probably in college in the
late sixties but maybe even in high school a few years earlier. It was a
humorous piece, told from the point of view of a student struggling to come
up with examples of various literary terms (synedoche, etc.). The one which
stumps him is the concept of as he describes it, "the container for the
thing contained." Everything he comes up with does not satisfy the teacher.
He thinks it may be Thurber, but our Thurber collection is pitifully small,
has lousy bibliographic records with no contents listing, and is mostly out
at the moment. Does anyone recognize this and know the actual name and
author of the essay and where it might be found? TIA.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: "Lynn K. Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 3:12 PM

As someone said, it's "Here Lies Miss Groby" in THE THURBER CARNIVAL.
Lynn K. Silence Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: 636-227-1138 Fax: 636-227-9632
"In the beginning there was the book, and the book inspired
and angered others to write books, and when the people could
no longer cope...they begat libraries, and the Lord said, 'I don't
know what else we can do.' " Anonymous

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 4:57 PM

Hail Fiction_L'ers -- My patron looking for the essay can not believe how
speedy the response was (and luckily we had a copy of Thurber Carnival on
the shelve...). He says you all are his new best friends (I guess that
means we can expect more queries). He was especially relieved to know that
he wasn't just imagining having read this piece. Thanks from him, and from
me.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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