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2011:02/12 "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker


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Please Join us for discussion on Saturday night, February 12, 2011 of the following story:

 

 

"A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker

 

Story URL: http://www.amlit.com/Parker/SS/ATelephoneCall.html

 

Meeting time: 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time

 

Meeting place: #Readers_CornerWebChat Users:

http://koach.com/index.php?id=chatlogin&client=web&chan=%23readers_corner

IRC users:

/server -m irc.koach.com -j #readers_corner 6667

 

Hope to see you there.

 

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Great Turnout and Chat last night all. Posting the log.

Also a few very interesting related links provided last night:

 

Star's contribution of the female brain: link

 

Logos contribution of a D. Parker Poem of great interest in relation to the story:link

 

My favorite explanation of the way men vs. women think (aka boxes/wires):

 

We also spoke of adding our own 'post story paragraph' - please feel free to do so! It would be fun and interesting to read.

#readers_corner.20110212.zip

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We also spoke of adding our own 'post story paragraph' - please feel free to do so! It would be fun and interesting to read.

Here is my ending preceded by the last few lines of the story as published:

 

"Oh, please, dear God, dear kind God, my blessed Father in Heaven, let him call before then. Please, God. Please.

 

Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twentyfive, thirty, thirty-five..."

Oh please ring, ring, ring ? Ring ? It

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Or alternately:

 

Oh God, its ringing.

 

Hello, Hello:

 

This is the police mam. Do you know a Mr. Earl Smith?

 

Yes, what's wrong.

 

Well mam. He was killed in an auto accident about two hours ago...We just found the wreck at the bottom of the hill on Dead Man's Curve. Your number had been punched into his cellphone, but not sent at the time of the accident.

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