{"text":"There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the 'meaning' of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.","author":"Donald Barthelme","tags":["fiction","humor","satire","short-story","transgressive-fiction"],"id":24217,"author_id":"Donald+Barthelme"}