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Stories and Emotion

In: Winning Minds

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  • Simon Lancaster

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Have you seen the 1980s film Stand By Me? If you have, I bet you remember the scene when the kids sit around the campfire, all huddled up, listening intently as Gordie told the story about Davie Hogan: otherwise known as… ‘Lardass’. It was a tragic tale. For years, Lardass had been teased and tormented about his weight by everyone in the town. But one day, he hatched a wicked plan for his revenge. He entered the local pie-eating contest. Before taking part in the contest, he swallowed a dozen raw eggs and a whole bottle of castor oil. Soon after eating his first pie, his belly started churning. The more pies he ate, the more ominous rumbling sounds emerged. Finally, as he tucked into his fifth blueberry pie, he could hold back no longer: he barfed all over the place. This made his chief tormentor barf over someone else. Then that person barfed on the mayor’s wife. Before long, everyone was barfing. And everyone was barfed upon. It was a barfarama. And Lardass sat back in his chair, satisfied. Justice had been done.

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  • Simon Lancaster, 2015. "Stories and Emotion," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Winning Minds, chapter 0, pages 122-126, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-46594-8_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137465948_11
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