A reading tip, The Deer-cow.

Ola Martinsson Ola.Martinsson at uab.ericsson.se
Thu Feb 22 09:07:13 CET 2001


Hi !

I just had the opportunity to read a very funny and wonderfully absurd
story which I would like to recommend to all of you to try and get your
hands on. Unfortunately that might not be so easy.

The Deer-cow was first published in MOC 56 1950. For more info see

http://stp.ling.uu.se/cgi-bin/starback/dcml/story?W+MOC+56-01

Ola in snowy windy Stockholm -4

**************** SPOILER WARNING **********************************

Anyhow it's a story about Donald that wants to shoot an elk but a cow
that wants to be an elk always interferes with the hunt. The weird
humour when Donald drags cows and elks around and specifically when he
tells an elk to stay there while he gets his gun to shoot it I find
wonderfully absurd. I doubt very much that this story ever will be
reprinted by Egmont since the hunting theme and the actul intent to
shoot the elk to eat it.



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