Asinaria: Feast of the Ass

Not as taken with The Letters Killer Club as I was with Corpse, but still highly inventive and readable.

Learned about at least one interesting thing (I'm about half way through his novella): an Asinaria (not to be confused with Plautus' play of the same name).

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The Feast of the Ass (Latin: Festum Asinorum or asinaria festa, French: Fête de l'âne) was a medieval, Christian feast observed on January 14, celebrating the Flight into Egypt. It was celebrated primarily in France, as a by-product of the Feast of Fools celebrating the donkey-related stories in the Bible, in particular the donkey bearing the Holy Family into Egypt after Jesus's birth.[1]


[From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass]

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