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SHOOT-OUT WITH A WILD-EYED MODERATE is a collection of humor,
whimsy, and even serious opinion. You may enjoy the collection if
you like classic radio, Stan Freberg, Thurber and Benchley, SCTV,
SNL, Monty Python, and Immanuel Kant's hilarious 'Critique of Pure
Reason.'
"A Quandary of Fibbles" by Howard Denson tells the story of
Princess Esmeralda in the Kingdom of Quandary. She is in love with
a clumsy knight, Sir Jonathan d'Klutz, but her father, King
Geoffrey the Grouch, despises her suitor. Sir Jonathan's protectors
are Sweet Margaret (whom children call "Mag the Hag with the
Sagging Bags") and Fred, Ted, Ed, and Ned, the talking heads on the
pikes at Hogmoor Castle. They try to protect the young knight, but
he decides to prove his merit by taming the rampaging Sir Bull in
the pasture near the castle. Unfortunately, Sir Bull dispatches the
youth and then does in the princess when she rushes to his side.
Their spirits then begin migrations over the centuries until she
ends up in a pot-bellied stove and he in the body of Johnny the
Junkman. Sweet Margaret has given the Talking Heads the mission of
looking out for the two so they can be united at some point.
Meanwhile, King Fengon from Miasmort has been trying to destroy
Quandary, and Esmeralda's lascivious sister, Princess Ethel the
Ready But Remember She's the King's Daughter, assembles a team of
the Talking Heads, four headless country boys, and a raven to face
the challenge of the Miasmorticians. The book can be viewed as a
collection of fibbles (part fable and part fib, but always
poetically true), or even as a family saga novel since it takes
generations for the story to be resolved. It tips its hat to
medieval troubadours, Thurber, Aesop, Freberg, Fractured Tales, and
Python, plus Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.
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