SATIRE: History - The Customer Reviews
Funny satire from the October 17, 2011 New Yorker Magazine 'Shouts & Murmurs' section. Although the focus is on world history, it seems to me this would be a great short assignment model in any history class.
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HUMANKIND PRODUCES ART IN THE CHAUVET CAVES
I went to see this cave for a girls’ night out, and I have to say it was quite disappointing. For one thing, the lighting was terrible. You had to stumble around in the pitch black, and if you were lucky someone remembered to bring willow bark for the pain when you banged your face against a wall, but mostly no one had thought of that. We had to get the shaman to set fire to his own hair so that we could have a proper look, which I felt was putting too much responsibility on the audience. The walls did seem to show real mastodons and oryxes, which was pretty cool, since caves usually just look like broken rocks. But I’d recommend the spring mushroom dance as a better outing.
If you do go, bring your own pine resin and flint.
Read more at ... http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/10/17/111017sh_shouts_pearson#i...
A sample...
HUMANKIND PRODUCES ART IN THE CHAUVET CAVES
I went to see this cave for a girls’ night out, and I have to say it was quite disappointing. For one thing, the lighting was terrible. You had to stumble around in the pitch black, and if you were lucky someone remembered to bring willow bark for the pain when you banged your face against a wall, but mostly no one had thought of that. We had to get the shaman to set fire to his own hair so that we could have a proper look, which I felt was putting too much responsibility on the audience. The walls did seem to show real mastodons and oryxes, which was pretty cool, since caves usually just look like broken rocks. But I’d recommend the spring mushroom dance as a better outing.
If you do go, bring your own pine resin and flint.
Read more at ... http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/10/17/111017sh_shouts_pearson#i...
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