The Other Town ~ 9/9 Reading

"The Other Town" is one of the thirteen stories in the book called "Dangerous Laughter" by Steven Millhauser, it is a story about two towns which were separated by the woods. There was one town copy by other. The ordinary town devoted important resources to the construction and maintenance for a second town. I would describe that as a lost of regionalism.

There is civic employees work all day to ensure that each change in the first town is mirrored in the second. Curious townspeople like to relax by crossing through the woods and emerging in their mirror-world. The relationship of the two towns evokes our odd human habit of learning most about ourselves from our fictional creations.

As Millhauser stated, "It's almost as if we can't feel our town, cannot know about it, until we're there, in the other town, imagining our town on the other side of the woods. So perhaps it's true, after all, that when we visit the other town we aren't escaping from our town, as some say, but entering it at last. (164)"