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An End to Parables
I’ve spent a life in parables, disguising my ideas in costumes and strange metaphors deliberately unclear and so perhaps convinced the world that I’m a harmless quack, imagining just chimeras with no spine in their backs. But recently, while looking … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, conversations, misunderstanding, parables, understanding
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Antonin Artaud
The play’s the only thing, upon this stage — the one true line from which all tangents spring; and if the actors move from joy to rage in but a moment’s span, or seem to bring a touch of madness … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, Antonin Artaud, delirium, drama, madness, misunderstanding, roles
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Two Poets Lament, Part II
Perhaps the world is full of verse that fails, inspiring none to act as heroes should; and in frustration, lesser poets rail against the confine and form of the good, their self-aggrandized talents gone to waste that they alone lament … Continue reading
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Tagged art, communication, failure, hubris, misunderstanding, poetry, purpose, WB Yeats, words
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Two Poets Lament, Part I
for W.B. Yeats Some silken strains of angst-encrusted verse or mystic message wrapped in words to woo designed to part the patron from their purse, or charm one’s snakes…what can these small things do? An audience that can be misdirected … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, dreams, interpretation, misunderstanding, Poetry, poetry, pointlessness, sorrow, WB Yeats
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