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An End to Parables

Posted on January 24, 2005 by John

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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Antonin Artaud

Posted on December 9, 2004 by John

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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Two Poets Lament, Part II

Posted on May 10, 2004 by John

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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Two Poets Lament, Part I

Posted on May 7, 2004 by John

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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