tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64346145254144469732024-03-13T00:06:04.321-04:00bilingual blog bilingue de la curiositéCuriosity is not going to kill this cat/La curiosité n'a jamais été un vilain défaut.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434614525414446973.post-64950148505742026522023-10-12T10:39:00.004-04:002023-10-12T12:53:40.499-04:00Are aliens just a projection of our subconscious?<p> </p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWTJS95g7gmYKcADGTbuC58TYCK0jHfgqh2XUAqBREe9pyyA48pTNJvTodk089CzzQGd05S25uc0YvcvE7s96cPzBLZ8V1iRsTG2-0OXgeROcE6K5FtrUhXMVE1oelUi9ZvUMM5QFUn_MB1Ox2uOmHBqLY0XRDCctS0EBkwnPpdaDxsmluTTyDo-6GZ_6i/s640/Alien_Abduction_Perspective.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWTJS95g7gmYKcADGTbuC58TYCK0jHfgqh2XUAqBREe9pyyA48pTNJvTodk089CzzQGd05S25uc0YvcvE7s96cPzBLZ8V1iRsTG2-0OXgeROcE6K5FtrUhXMVE1oelUi9ZvUMM5QFUn_MB1Ox2uOmHBqLY0XRDCctS0EBkwnPpdaDxsmluTTyDo-6GZ_6i/w400-h225/Alien_Abduction_Perspective.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Is it egocentric to believe in aliens?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We have thinking creatures on our planet, therefore we imagine the same of other planets. Aliens have been typically reported to have two legs and two arms and an overlarge head and eyes, a tiny mouth, no hair. They look like a cross between a fetus and a skeleton which has lost some of our organic properties: they don't look like they would sweat or bleed.</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">They look like a product of our subconscious, and of our fascination with forms that are nearly human: ghosts, zombies, severed limbs all linger on the boundaries of humanity. Such constructs challenge our perception of what it means to be human and alive, and tend to inspire us with terror. What happens to “me” when I die, besides putrefying, and where was I before I was born? </span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Is my body me?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkKXkfSrpFtY1iJFNhqc7JKfGM4tr5dwpMivTrPpUUulj3E85rvVAxfaqMq9XYmvgll5ZH9JzlchsqsKYlyEUJtOqG695Z90x8c-fsDalf__ts95aeSkSJFs5UlVZj4FSBZduNz_kIirCs8mWqipeR7S-nowwh6mRi4L8_3nOKl5sSuSvUx_cWzDmkLluW/s640/Epiglottitis_endoscopy_alien.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="640" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkKXkfSrpFtY1iJFNhqc7JKfGM4tr5dwpMivTrPpUUulj3E85rvVAxfaqMq9XYmvgll5ZH9JzlchsqsKYlyEUJtOqG695Z90x8c-fsDalf__ts95aeSkSJFs5UlVZj4FSBZduNz_kIirCs8mWqipeR7S-nowwh6mRi4L8_3nOKl5sSuSvUx_cWzDmkLluW/w200-h194/Epiglottitis_endoscopy_alien.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p p="" style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Whether we believe in an afterlife or not, our body becomes separated from our soul, intelligence, consciousness, emotions, once we die. Whatever happens to everything else, our body decays after our death, and that's awful. It becomes alien. The ovule fecundated by a spermatozoid also lacks consciousness, and emotions, and intelligence, if not soul according to some religions.</span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And is my hand, severed, still me? And is that photo of my stomach's endoscopy a representation of “me”? It seems that in our guts, in our entrails, death and putrefaction loom more menacingly than in our external appearance that defines us as humans. After all, our pancreas does not differ much from a bat's. </span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-ILPWnNjBKHr2eT1O0ucbpf6nVd29r8alqeL1fnUtdxu0Dn4S5DtkIKDgkDsFlnTeb6q67_ZImMAvQXSV-nWLuJF7lmkF2a-gmbxbkO3kWppxmj2OHVHNFFoB1BQ18dYUeM3PunWaqI1VABS7NgodZPxEMVh5VxWaJTKM__2Yj15uU1NfAJWOod7uCZo/s640/Aliens_creature_film_horro.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-ILPWnNjBKHr2eT1O0ucbpf6nVd29r8alqeL1fnUtdxu0Dn4S5DtkIKDgkDsFlnTeb6q67_ZImMAvQXSV-nWLuJF7lmkF2a-gmbxbkO3kWppxmj2OHVHNFFoB1BQ18dYUeM3PunWaqI1VABS7NgodZPxEMVh5VxWaJTKM__2Yj15uU1NfAJWOod7uCZo/w400-h268/Aliens_creature_film_horro.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The mystery of our boundaries (interior/exterior, dead/alive, whole/divided, psychical/physical) informs all horror films, Alien and its skinless creatures come to mind. These are different from reported images of aliens. ETs are described as being inorganic by people who claim to have seen them, while creatures imagined to provoke terror are ultra organic. </span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>If aliens look like fetuses, do UFOs look like our rockets?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As humans we tend to project our own essence and it's hard for us to imagine something really different. Reports of UFOs are suspiciously close to our own technology: a flying saucer is a light projecting metal rocket only round.</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRnTIFiRiNMo66ELH6C9plNeLEC-iOyUTJ-4P50mIHaYAtSEf9OOGbVvn05PYoiAIyCzcAbyq0Lb2td_l5FnktwJM8kD7O5kkM3RX9GfAWphB1FcYKv65rg-Q4cKfclKmdsiHCPkRLP03jb1cfMuypEGzwxtp6SQeVrDDha4MfUpdmRIWLZRdgy0ck6cM/s800/Amanita_muscaria_(fly_Amanita)_(11359148223).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRnTIFiRiNMo66ELH6C9plNeLEC-iOyUTJ-4P50mIHaYAtSEf9OOGbVvn05PYoiAIyCzcAbyq0Lb2td_l5FnktwJM8kD7O5kkM3RX9GfAWphB1FcYKv65rg-Q4cKfclKmdsiHCPkRLP03jb1cfMuypEGzwxtp6SQeVrDDha4MfUpdmRIWLZRdgy0ck6cM/s320/Amanita_muscaria_(fly_Amanita)_(11359148223).jpg" width="256" /></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It is remarkable that their name and shape refer to a container of food -think breast- which could have a circular movement. Our technology is mostly inspired by the phallus (rockets, racing cars, skyscrapers, gas pumps, syringes, plugs). Aliens as a fantasy of femaleness?</span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">An appealing theory has it that aliens planted Amanita muscaria on the Earth. People who have sampled this toxic mushroom (carefully enough to be able to tell the tale: I do not recommend trying this) have had out-of-body experiences. Some had the impression they floated way, way above the Earth and explored the cosmos. </span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Aliens would have given us this way of experiencing the outer world rather than by physical means. While I know this is sweet folklore, the concept implies that aliens might move, transport themselves, translocate or communicate using completely different means from us. No metal, no fuel, no electromagnetic waves.</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Is there life on other planets that is not particularly intelligent?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">To go back to alien intelligent life, we could imagine there is life on other planets that is not particularly intelligent. The creatures, deer-like, would lead gentle, unremarkable lives that do not necessitate the development of thinking. It is meditative to imagine a planet without wars, without facebook, without abuse of fossil fuels.</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I let myself dream of Planet Earth where Man would never have happened: a kind of paradise with huge areas of savannah, rain forest, ice pack, taiga, tundra, all pristine. Rhinoceros, unconcerned about the value of their horns, roam freely. Whales swim with no threatening boat in sight. Dodos only have to worry about their next meal.</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Does evolution necessarily lead to the development of intelligence?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">But life without intelligence doesn't actually make sense for a system in the long term. If life appears on a planet, if from an inert environment, something alive (and what is alive? Basically something that is complex and can die if that complexity is destroyed. When we die, our complex bodies get taken over by bacteria that is a less organized form) happens, it's going to evolve. Complex creatures are not going to just happen, ta-da, from one day to the next. That's if we take a scientific point of view, and not mythological!</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">If there is evolution from simple to more complex, then intelligence is going to give select creatures a massive edge as it has on our planet, and is bound to happen eventually. It could be that one planet hosts more than one species with intelligence, like we had Neanderthal, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis">Homo floresiensis</a> at some point, and gosh, I really miss them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Could a planet be inhabited with just one big jelly?</b></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFlshuYaxei1c2sA5nwrRBl9q64PbtBXctaFcXKfh4evCJaQlBTtUr5mHOAbPA4Olc26gbMT-eXU74DaGgfnvOygIN_4AMA51PKG9A0du3DWCLCH70iF-tXX9Qlv-oSpHC06Q8gC7So9ZxE4-LT4vlXqLnkZn4UOpqLDKAF9Hb6-og1hhVt2LLp8qEIEdy/s640/Mycelium_RH_(3).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFlshuYaxei1c2sA5nwrRBl9q64PbtBXctaFcXKfh4evCJaQlBTtUr5mHOAbPA4Olc26gbMT-eXU74DaGgfnvOygIN_4AMA51PKG9A0du3DWCLCH70iF-tXX9Qlv-oSpHC06Q8gC7So9ZxE4-LT4vlXqLnkZn4UOpqLDKAF9Hb6-og1hhVt2LLp8qEIEdy/s320/Mycelium_RH_(3).jpg" width="320" /></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The alternative to this scenario is a planet where there is just one entity. Maybe something like <a href="https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/fungi-hidden-dimension">a mycelium.</a> This organism is not in competition with anything else, but works and evolves cooperatively. I imagine a kind of cloud that moves like a huge <a href="https://seaunseen.com/marine-flatworms/">sea creature</a>, a bit foamy perhaps, that changes color, and changes shapes. It might not need to develop intelligence, but then again it might as it morphs and expands and needs to use different resources.</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I like to think that the intelligence of this organism is wise, because it does not know competition, conflict, violence. And maybe it could impart some of its wisdom to us by finding a way to communicate: stay tuned. We'd stop killing each other, and trying to outdo our neighbors, and to own more and more and more than we need, to leave less and less resources to others, like who needs to possess <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/?sh=1fcc187d1b23">165 billion dollars</a> when we could share the planet in peace and justice?</span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Written fast and furiously by - - Arabella von Arx</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>All images from wikimedia commons.</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434614525414446973.post-14846239292552772182020-04-25T23:08:00.001-04:002020-04-28T09:53:15.670-04:00Paris France by Gertrude Stein is infuriating, simplistic and ... a lot of fun!<br />
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Gertude Stein's <i>Paris France</i> is infuriating, arrogant, simplistic, and ... a lot of fun to read. Her style, bare and repetitive like a song, is not as stylized as in some of her other books. The sentence patterns, loose but not too loose, are repetitive without driving you to distraction. Combined with the humor and the wit, the style makes for a more pleasant read than say A rose is a rose is a rose, and actually succeeds in courting musicality.<br />
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Stein muses about what France is at its essence, and this is the distillation of her analysis, if you can call it that:<br />
"So there are two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful."<br />
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This sentence appears in modified versions on nearly every page, as a necessary conclusion. The question is, who the hell did Gertrude Stein think she was to be able to resume France in the 1900-1940s in a sentence? An arrogant prick, that's who. But a <i>sympathique</i> prick, no doubt.<br />
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Below she argues the French perceive themselves as Latin because they are logical. Ok. Maybe. Then she states logical people do not want to go to war, and certainly Stein proves by that deduction that sheis not French and logical, because in fact the logical Romans really had a thing about going to war all the time.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">"When you first really get to know the French one of the first things that puzzles you is the insistence upon their latinity. They do not consider Italians or Spaniards latin, but they the french are latin, they insist upon being Gauls but all the same they are latin. Finally I realised that what they meant was that the spirit of latinity was kept purer by them the Gallo-romans than it was in Italy which lost its latinity when they were overcome by barbarians and never recreated it, they might take on the forms and symbols of Rome but essentially the latin culture went out of Italy and it never existed in Spain so its true home has been France. And there is a good deal of truth in it all. At first I did not know what they were talking about but gradually I did begin to feel what they meant by their latinity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> They meant of course logic, the only people who were interested in logic were the Romans, logic because logical people are never brutal, they are never sentimental, they are never careless, they are never intimate, in short they are peaceful and exciting, that is to say they are French. The French understand war because they are logical, they do not care to go to war because they are logical, and to be logical is to be latin. That is what I was gradually understanding. It took me a long time to really understand it."</span></div>
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She assembles paragraphs of sweeping judgments, some of which are intriguing, others simplistic, often both. These ramblings, which are not actually rambling in the sense of over loquacious but in their lack of depth, are intercut with stories and anecdotes whose importance seem to originate from having been witnessed by Madame Stein, or have happened to people known by her, Dukes for example.<br />
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Stein feels quite confident in answering the question of how come France was the cultural capital of the world, or at least of the Western world in the late 19th century/early 20th century. This bygone era has become history, as the French capital has lost this title to New York City, and Beijing, and Berlin, and Kinshasa, and Singapore, and Delhi. Despite her ironical, distanced tone, Stein's excitement at having been a part of the Parisian scene is still palpable:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;">"So the 20</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"> Century did need France as a background. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">France might play with the idea of the destruction of the family as</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> the beginning and end of everything but it could never convince any Frenchman and so France was a background for beginning of the 20</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Century, it had had its one real effort to believe that the family and the things the family holds in its hands and walks on and eats and drinks and which belong to that family, they had their try-out of trying not to believe and that’s it the beginning of 19 century in the first french revolution, but it really was not interesting. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Wars yes and excitement yes, but really not interesting. There is no logic to it, no civilization to it and no fashion. So when the 20</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Century was going to start in to try it out all over again, the Frenchmen were very content to be in it but not of it." I guess her writing teacher did not tell her about getting rid of "so" in her texts.</span><br />
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Some of her judgments do not apply to modern France, and it raises the question of whether France has changed, or Stein was wrong. She states that the French do not punish their children. Now, the French punish their children much more than Americans, even corporeal punishment is common in all classes of society.<br />
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Despite the book being called Paris France, it's full of anecdotes about Stein's neighbors in the countryside, and these stories do work as a windows on France before WWII. The content seems to have been the result of the following process: Stein and Toklas take a walk with their dogs close to their countryside home. They run into people and have a nice little chat with them. Stein the genius extracts a great insight about France from the meeting, and a relevant anecdote.<br />
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The book is short, written in an easy tone, fun, and not a bad read for anyone interested in that period of French history. Personally, I have sympathy for Stein, because she was a woman, a lesbian, and made no mystery about it. In the vein of the self aggrandizing, flamboyant, vociferous celebrity, she gets my vote over <span style="background-color: white;">Hemingw</span>ay, even if he had a hell of a sharp pen. And below, as a parting gift, is a story with a nice narrative, and striking images, such as these small boys on oversized bicycles because the French were not rich enough to give bicycles to their children. Children bikes probably didn't exist. Here's this sweet piece:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">"Helen Button was her name and she lived in war-time. She lived somewhere but the thing that is important is that she lived during war-time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Helen Button started out with her dog William. As they were walking along suddenly William stopped and was very nervous. He saw something on the road and so did Helen. They neither of them knew what it was at first and at last as they approached very carefully they saw it was a bottle, a bottle standing up right in the middle of the road. There had been something in the bottle but what, it looked dark green or may be blue or black, and the bottle was standing up in the middle of the road not lying on its side the way a bottle on the road usually is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> When Helen went out there were a great many little boys on the large bicycles about. The bicycles were so tall that they cannot get on the seat at all but they were all over the country wriggling from side to side to have their ride and when they saw water and some of the roads were under water they went forward and back through the water to make it splash. That was because their big brothers and their fathers were gone away and that made so many more little boys able to play. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Then Helen did know it was war-time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Helen and her dog William were out every day and almost every evening and they always saw someone. They knew a boy named Emil who was a big boy with very large eyes and a dog named Ellen. Ellen the dog had been born in the country against which they were fighting. Emil looked at his dog and wondered if he could love him. The dog loved Emil but could Emil love him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> As Helen and her dog William came along Emil's dog Ellen sniffing along the side of the road in the sand and finally went sniffing up the bank. Helen's dog William went sniffing too. Perhaps there was game there, very likely because in war-time men did not go shooting nobody hunted anything only dogs and cats hunted in war-time, Emil the boy with large eyes sighed about this. He said dogs hunt in war-time but they do not get much, anybody could see two or three dogs going together to hunt and waiting to see if anybody saw them because in peace-time of course they can not go hunting. Then Emil said but cats in peace-time or in war-time, they sit and watch and prey. (...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Helen had a grandmother and when she had been the age of Helen there had been war-time. She told Helen how one day she had a slice of bread and there was very little bread to be had, but she did have a good big slice and she was just commencing eating it. A soldier came along an enemy soldier on a horse, he stopped and got off this horse and not roughly but he did, he took the slice of bread out of her hand, she had just had one bite and he gave it to his horse who ate it and he went away on his horse and he did not say anything."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Please note:</i> I have tried to reproduce the text's random capitalization. For Stein, all French people seem to be men, and a dog named Ellen is a he. In the story of Helen, the characters all have English names or English spelling of French names. My guess is that Stein could not be bothered to find out the real names or relevant spellings. Or she invented the whole thing. Which is still pretty gracious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And finally an anecdote, but that illustrates how injustice could affect a woman, and a lesbian's life. Stein left her art collection as a trust to her partner Toklas. When the collection became extremely valuable in the early 60s, <a href="https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00296" target="_blank">the Stein family had it seized </a>while Toklas was away from France, on the pretext she was not taking care of it properly. Toklas was never able to recover it, despite legal action. It's also distressing that Stein did not leave the collection to Toklas as an inheritance. Selling one piece would have saved her from her poverty in her late years. </span>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6434614525414446973.post-70837541725672270032020-03-30T16:45:00.000-04:002020-03-31T10:49:07.402-04:00What should we keep of the new normal?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">We got together virtually and talked about how we are experiencing the pandemic, what are our fears and our hopes.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><b>We’re sad </b>that some people have died, suffered, and that a lot more will. We’re worried for that risk which is all around us, and might take away some of the people we love, and ourselves too, naturally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">We wonder what ways, or <b>rites</b>, we can come up to to express that sadness, to mourn as a community, now (virtually) and when the pandemic is over (a ceremony in cemeteries, other ideas?).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><b>Our world will be changed</b>, it will never be the same, and we are trying to think of ways to veer it in a direction we value: more wholesome, just, zen. Less consumerism? Less production? Less pollution?</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><b>Some of the things that are happening are good, some are bad</b>. Below is a list. We want to have our voices heard about how this pandemic is handled: <b>social action</b>. Two proposals, <b>one physical:</b> we stand at our windows with posters expressing our views: lives over dollars, save small businesses, help to illegal immigrants, suspend rents, suspend mortgages, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Virtually, we could have <b>a day of action</b> where we all express on the internet (instagram, fb, twitter) our political views through photos, memes, statements.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white;">TABLE COMPARING THE NEW NORMAL AND THE NEW NEW NORMAL</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">CORONAVIRUS PERIOD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> THE NEW NORMAL </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(post covid19)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Bad hair cuts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Lose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Less commuting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">More work from home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Either or.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Less traveling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep? More environmental solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Less flying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep. Bring back transatlantic ships, they pollute less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Less socializing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Lose. More “in the flesh” events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Lots and lots of time on the Internet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Lose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Lots of sex with one partner (or two)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Less work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Less pollution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">More time with loved ones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">More time alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">More physical exercise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Either or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">More caring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Hospitals overwhelmed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Lose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Small businesses endangered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Help from govt, from us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Virtual parties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michael Rakowitz is showing work at the <a href="http://www.janelombardgallery.com/current" target="_blank">Jane Lombard Gallery</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.13px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i> </i></b></span></span>in an exhibition entitled:<br />
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He has recreated his versions of those particular works that have been destroyed by ISIS at Nimrud. Above is an example, the bright colors coming from wrappings with arabic branding on them. The relationship between the destruction of the art and the wrappings is unclear. ISIS can not be accused of promoting consumerism, they don't promote anything but nihilism, the only relationship seems to be that the wrappings are Arabic. ISIS has been able to establish itself in Iraq following the chaos left by the American invasion. This military action was justified as a response to Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction". It appeared later that there were no such weapons and that US intelligence had no convincing evidence that they ever existed, and that the motivation was purely to access petrol.<br />
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In that sense, the destruction of these world heirlooms can be imputed to the interference of the US in the region. The same could be said of the destruction of art such as <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1326063/After-1700-years-Buddhas-fall-to-Taliban-dynamite.html" target="_blank">the Buddha statues by the Taliban</a>, as the US armed the mujahhideen when the enemy was the USSR. We had no idea when the Taliban blew these statues that one day the Taliban would seem rather mild and self disciplined in comparison to ISIS. Ironically, the Assyrian civilization was one of <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/ancient-near-east1/assyrian/a/assyrian-art-an-introduction" target="_blank">brutal militarism</a>.<br />
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Organisations such as the Taliban and ISIS would not waste their time and dynamite blowing ancient monuments if they did not purpose to antagonize the West. One can feel quite helpless if this iconoclasm is only attributed to fundamentalism. But if these actions are, correctly, imputed to Western inference in the Middle East, we can exercise our political rights to prevent this kind of short sightedness in the case of the Taliban, and self serving politics in the case of Iraq. Imagine a foreign power (no names here, as I prefer my coffee non radioactive) poured funds into survivalist groups in the US, we would soon have a number of Timothy McVeigh empowered to blow up more buildings with babies. </div>
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The ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_sculpture" target="_blank">Assyrian reliefs </a>that were acquired in various ways by institutions in the Western World were saved from destruction by ISIS, necessarily. The show seems to be an indictment of the movement pressuring these institutions to return the work to their originating countries. Also the stunning beauty of the original reliefs contrasts jarringly with the current branded look, providing added motivation the original work not be destroyed (See beautiful original on the left). At least, that's how I perceived it, which was somewhat puzzling. I'm quite ready to believe that Rakowitz had good intentions, I wish they had been clearer.<br />
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I have a problem with a panel with 3 white guys even if one has a charming Italian accent, I know I'm being dogmatic, but it does feel terribly déjà vu. I was incapable of listening to anything Germano Celant said, maybe it's his accent, and he is likely to have said some very interesting things, he is the guy who coined the term "Arte povera" and who heads the Prada Foundation in Milano - maybe he is better with the written word. He does have a most charming name too, a whole story could be imagined around that name!<br />
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Doug Wheeler was more arresting. He stuck me as being the interesting case of a man who was shy to start with in life. Had he chosen another path, he would have had to overcome it. But he has become a famous artist, and this allows for every idiosyncrasy of the personality. The artist is sold "as is" :with the understanding he is not able, nor expected to conform, and his failings are his qualities as they are linked to his creativity.<br />
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Wheeler, 81, has a handsome mane of long white hair. Its always a fun exercise to imagine a man with his long hair trimmed short. And I thought, imagine, imagine this doctor's son had had a career in a corporation. Or had started his own business of medical supplies. He might have had to beat the shyness out of his system, as is expected of what one calls a real man, of a breadwinner. And I can see his face shorn of hair, he would have had to compact into something showing power and control his spread out sitting position that is a self conscious attempt at appearing relaxed, and why not, It is a very different person yet the divergence in these paths might have been caused by something seemingly benign, like a bit of bullying by a cousin or an over demanding father.</div>
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My impression is that Wheeler knows the show business. He's been there for a while now. He probably doesn't really like it but it's the ransom of celebrity, and he'll play along, which is fair enough. He tells his stories, gamely. Does he tell these stories repeatedly? You would think, from their content's relationship to his artistic path, but if he has told them before, it's not obvious from the fresh, convincing delivery he achieves. He's a good story teller. He recalls his father the surgeon flying his small plane to remote areas in Arizona. Scary landings on high streets when there was no runway. His father would say: see that patch of the sky over there that's particularly blue? Don't go there. They're turbulences. John Wayne! In fact, minimalism has something macho about it. For a start, there is a certain arrogance in asserting that a very simple piece is a worthy art work just because the artist says so. Nothing soft or intricate or empathic about minimalism or conceptual art, these qualities typically needing figurative art or complex abstraction.</div>
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He speaks simply, he is humble, he often seeks the gaze of his wife in the audience, the Hollywood producer <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424660/" target="_blank">Bridget Johnson</a>, and mentions her by name. He also refers to another man in the audience by name, maybe to break the mythology of the famous artist on stage addressing the anonymous reverential audience, which is sympathique.</div>
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But still he is there, and he speaks, filling his expected role. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-business-of-being-david-zwirner-1515343734" target="_blank">The Zwirner son</a>, Lucas, moderates. He's the picture of the young golden boy, well to do, confident, educated, handsome. WASP. Does he know suffering? I guess everyone suffers at some point. It's not a criticism of Lucas. It's a genuine question. The people I know personally that have been born into exceptional privilege do not strike me as happier than the average Josephine (the average woman informed me she prefers Josephine to Jane).</div>
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Well, why should the actors and playwright have all the fun, and a reviewer only the dull, rationalistic role?<br />
The minute you walked in the BAM Harvey Theater (which <a href="https://bklyner.com/brooklyn-academy-of-music-opens-bam-strong-and-2019-next-wave-festival/" target="_blank">has undergone some work</a>, including a gallery, what a grand idea, you can meander through it during the interval or on your way out, or on your way in if you are the kind of person who arrives early at the theater rather than out of breath with your coat half buttoned, and that gallery shows <span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">When A Pot Finds Its Purpose</em><span style="background-color: white;">, a work by japanese-american<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(how many of these can there be, but welcome?) artist </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Kaino" target="_blank">Glenn Kaino</a>, a radiant installation with a political commentary),<br />
well the minute you walked into that theater you were hit by a vibrant energy, a joyous chaos: actors, techies, members of the audience buzzing on the stage, off the stage, romping music, actors seating people (mainly young women, hum) in the barber chair, selfie opportunities, hip swinging, laughing, smiles on every face, lots and lots of cellphones out and busy recording. Went on and on: was that going to be the show? The whole show?<br />
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But no. People were gently shoed off the stage, and the actors threw themselves in a short music dance piece. The play <a href="https://www.bam.org/barbershopchronicles" target="_blank">The Barber Shop Chronicles</a> takes place in 6 cities, 5 in Africa, the 6th being London. Some of the vignettes carry a story, others are situations involving caring, forgiving, conflict, and lots and lots of discussions about fathering and politics (a welcome parallel is made between father figures and figures of state authority) politics politics, and sports! The play takes place during one day, the final of a soccer championship between Chelsea and Barcelona.<br />
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There is a change of mood through the play that is well controlled by super talented Nigerian <span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: "adobe caslon pro";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inua_Ellams" target="_blank">Inua Ellams</a><span style="font-size: 22px;">)</span></span>. At first, it's a lot of humor, and the situations and lines were damn funny. The scenes get more serious, more emotional. That's always a risk: everyone wants to laugh. But cry? The emotions of betrayal, and loneliness, and loss were conveyed gently, by the talented cast.<br />
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The transition between the scenes/locales is made by picking a bit of a sentence, a bit of a mood and turning it by turning into a short piece of dance (movements brilliantly orchestrated by Aline David) and song: pure joy.<br />
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Was the play perfect? No. It does not have to be. Some actors were less talented than others. Some moments did not hit their full potential.<br />
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It does not have perfect, because it gave so much to the audience. A gift. God these people on stage have talent, and the playwright captured what his people have to say: it's a lot. The African diaspora through Africa, pushed by necessity. What does it mean to be a man? What it mean to be a black man? What does it mean to be a strong black man?<br />
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Can't wait to see more work by the young playwright Inua Ellams who was elected to the Royal Society of Literature!<br />
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Hum. There were 12 actors on stage. 12 men. No women. Zero women. It's in a barber shop, you say? Someone as talented at Ellams could think of one hundred ways of featuring women in this play. No, having just men on stage is not cute, it enforces that the norm is male. Ellams had better follow this up with the Nail Salon Chronicles...<br />
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Will Broadway buy the rights? The concern is that they are going to edit some of the more political, more philosophical materials in order to speak down to their audience. Don't do it.<br />
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Friday and Saturday night: DJs will be spinning after the show!<br />
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There is a tendency to believe that bilingualism (or multilingualism) is expanding thanks to the explosion of the means of communications, and the expansion of education. It seems to be quite the opposite. Languages are disappearing. UNESCO projects that it is likely no more than 500 languages will remain within a century out of currently 6,000 existing languages. Should we preserve languages and which? In the region where I grew up in Switzerland, the local dialect has completely disappeared in the last 50 years. Unless a handful of old people in the countryside remember a few words. It is estimated that at least 30,000 languages were born and disappeared in the last 5000 years. This information is computed in an extensive website that register very interesting global linguistic data.<br />
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In addition, we imagine that primitive communities moved little, but people have always moved, they have emigrated or traveled. Movement is a human aspiration that counterbalances the elemental desire for security and comfort. As the territory of the languages were smaller, the travelers soon were in an area where a foreign language was spoken. They also married women from other communities. Or kidnapped them. It has been shown that men in Iceland descend from the Norse, but the women descend from the Scottish. Conclusion? Icelandic men raided Scotland for women, as their Norse women were disinclined to move to an island where the highest temperatures in summer are around 68F/19C, and nothing grows. Furthermore conquests frequently swept continents, conquerors bringing with them their language which would end up cohabiting with local languages. There was the official language of the government, like Latin in France, and the local idiom like Gaul dialects, or hindi in India, and local dialects like Mulu.<br />
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Languages are probably created not only by creolization and natural evolution, but also as a way to distinguish one's community from others, to create an identity.<br />
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I admire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucauldian_discourse_analysis" target="_blank">Michel Foucault</a>, but I regret that he denied the benefits of creolization for languages, as proposed by Martiniquan thinker <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/515056" target="_blank">Edouard Glissant</a>. This petrifying vision of French saddens me. The defense of a monolithic language provides a way to confirm the superiority of France over the rest of the French speaking community in African and elsewhere, and of the educated classes over the working, or non working rather, classes.<br />
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The winter/spring season has started at BAM, with the new curator David <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/02/hedwig-producer-david-binder-named-bam-artistic-director-1202281290/" target="_blank">Binder</a>. Great expectations! Joseph V Melillo brought shows with a constant quality to BAM: those that weren't good were excellent. OK, they were a few misfires, but few, so very few. Walked out on maybe <a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.com/2010/10/polite-persephone.html" target="_blank">3 out of 100s</a> of shows over the years.<br />
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The Second Woman is the first staged show of the season. Created by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, two outstanding women that do a bunch of other things in the show too.<br />
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A red box. Neon signs reads "The Second Woman", the decor is 60s/70s living room, including liquor caddy. A woman walks in, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790057/" target="_blank">Alia Shawkat,</a> in a beautiful red dress and stilettos. Excitement! She's pulpy, topped with a Geena Rowland style blond wig. Two camerapeople sit outside the box, filming. Image is projected on a screen next to the box.<br />
The camerapeople get up, she gets up from her seat and goes and stands in the corner. Man walks in. Kisses her. They talk. Voices are not amplified, hard to understand. The dialogue, apparently, is inspired by Cassavetes' Opening Night. She expresses her insecurities. The man replies, pretending to reassure her, but not really. She throws noodle dish at him. Then puts music on. They dance. She tries to drag the man down to the floor. He won't. She offers him $20 (says in an article $50, and that's what the men get paid for their performance, but I saw $20, maybe fee went down) and he leaves.<br />
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That's the basic scene that gets repeated over and over. Over 24 hours. 100 men. The men are non actors, cast locally. Her dialogue is always the same. The men have a bit more leeway. They can choose between a few options, the most important one being their reaction when she says: "and I love you": they're all uncomfortable by the expectation she sets they respond. They either say: 'and you love me', or "I love you too". The last line has a similar weight: either "I love you", "I've always loved you", "I never loved you anyway" She is the perfect woman according to stereopical men's expectations: beautiful, sexy, submissive, insecure. But then her sexuality, her insecurities get too much when she tries to drag them to the floor: she has to be beautiful, sexy, submissive, insecure but within pre established parameters. She says: You don't think I'm capable when that's all I want to be, I just want to be capable. Well, that's exactly what she is not expected to be.<br />
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The purpose is clearly to subvert gender definitions. But this feminist show has 1 female actor for 100 male performers! Almost as bad as <a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-lehmann-trilogy-ode-to-patriarchy.html" target="_blank">the Lehman Trilogy! </a> (winking face here)<br />
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The images shot by the camerapeople are edited live, turning the theater scene into a film scene with alternating close ups, details, wider shots. Visually, the show is stunning. Visually, Shawkat is stunning.<br />
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The tension between the two forms, theater and film, is stimulating. The time conventions are different. On stage, normally, time elapses only when the actors are not on stage. The scene acted out here is neither theater nor cinema. It's too short to be either. And that's fine. The actors go through the motion, the woman reacting to each man, often aping him, or at least taking clues for her behavior from theirs. But their acting is not theater acting nor cinematic. It's a different form, not unlike Lepage's <a href="https://www.timeout.com/newyork/upstaged-blog/read-my-lipsynch-lepage-at-bam" target="_blank">10 hr show Lipsynch a</a>lso at BAM.<br />
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The men are old, young, different ethnicities. One is gay, another is a woman. The repetition of the action, the improvised differences, Shawkat's comedy makes for humor that lacks subtlety.<br />
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As the dialogue is nearly fixed, it is the physical aspect of the scene that changes: the way he opens the bag of Chinese food, the way she throws the noodles, their dance. Sometimes he takes the $20, sometimes he doesn't. She's often playful, which antagonizes the agonizing content of the dialogue.<br />
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After over 23 hrs on stage, she's still going strong. Alert. Responsive. Spontaneous. It's astonishing. It's actually better because she's looser, and so are the interactions. Over twenty-three hours into the show, she danced a cancan, and these legs were going high up in the air, no cheating. She was also still wearing her stilettos, when her feet must have been jam. There must have been bloody toes constrained in these contraptions. Maybe that kept her awake! But when she went to the floor, she was lying down flat, and thinking: soon, soon I'll be in my bed. And got up again.<br />
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Here I conclude: it's a compelling show. Pfew! Expectations are not let down. The experimental aspect, the visuals satisfy the curious mind. Somehow the show could be better, the relation between the dialogue and the action could be more meaningful. A piano accompaniment punctuates the series of scenes, and also plays before the show starts. It's intense, repetitive to obsession. Most apt. So is the music track for the dance, Aura's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjcjqBDu_k" target="_blank">"</a><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjcjqBDu_k" target="_blank">A taste of love"</a>.</i><br />
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Interestingly, the relationship to the audience plays an important part in the show: how long will people stay? how do they decide when to leave? When to come back? Somehow their lives are brought into the space, whether they took a break to go to the gym or to make love. There is also time to think, to chat in between iterations. The audience is markedly younger on average than the usual BAM theater audience, and many are friends of the male performers, or the male performers themselves. A ticket will get you a red ribbon around your wrist, - you're not supposed to shower for 24 hrs, I guess. At one point, I took a break, went to the bar:<br />
A beer, a glass of white wine and a bag of cookies.<br />
31.50, says the employee, without blinking. The bag of cookies is teeny tiny, like 5 crumbs.<br />
Dollars? I ask.<br />
She does not smile.<br />
It does include these BAM reusable tumblers, so I guess I'll be saving on my next drinks when I bring my own brand of mescal or armagnac in my pre bought tumbler.<br />
I know, this last part is not all that serious or relevant, but it's an experiential blog! I can be serious too, <a href="https://www.riotmaterial.com/redemption-of-art-through-disfigurement-slaughter/" target="_blank">see here</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">Author: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arundathi Roy</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">Book:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walking with the Comrades</i></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">The crowd chatted feverishly while waiting to be let into the
auditorium. "Literary sensation!", "brimming with talent",
"unique sense of vernacular" were the terms flying around the groups
in the foyer. Ages ranging from 16 to 80, they were all educated New Yorkers
who had rushed to be part of this literary communion. The doors to the large
auditorium opened. Beautifully built of wood and lit as for a crowning ceremony,
it held several hundreds of us. There was a rush through the doors, a run down
towards for the first rows, a bit of push and shove which quieted down quite
soon as we are civilized after all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">Chats, last minute cellphone check, laughs, changes of seat, no change of heart. At last the diminutive woman walked on stage, sat down, took a
gulp of water and leant towards the microphone. She raised her eyes towards us,
she raised her eyebrows. Not a whisper in the room, nor a cough, nor a scraping
of throat or shoe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">And
Arundathi Roy started. She started, and she didn't stop. She started and she
didn't let go. Telling us about tribal people being beaten, poisoned, arrested,
women being raped, their land being raped. Constantly on the move to escape
persecution. Undernourished, under educated, under cared for, families dispersed,
belongings null. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">These
people in the states of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar,
Lalgarh have the great misfortune of having their lands sitting on
profitable minerals and metals. Where they lived close to nature and far from
what is called civilization, large companies have arrived with equipment to dig
up the earth and pollute the waters, the airs, the soil. They burn villages,
they bring elephants to trample the forest, they scatter babool seeds to make
the soil barren.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">She had an educated audience that exercise a certain power through belonging to a privilege society, and they needed to know. This was not a literary salon where minds get stroked thanks to highbrow exchanges and eclectic language. This was about the world out there, politics, humans, pain, injustice, ugly holes dug in the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">At last she was done. The audience, awed, was a
different group of people that had walked into that auditorium an hour before.
The moderator announced that the renowned author would now sign books. A long
line of people formed from the top of the stairs of the auditorium all the way
to the desk she was sitting at. She had asked for our time, for our ears, for
our conscience. And now she returned the favour in full. She signed at length everyone's book, talking, smiling, indefatigable, this was the woman who had
walked for months through the jungles. She let people take photographs. A young couple was
keen on Roy holding their 2 year old in her arms for a snapshot. The 2 year old
was uncooperative. Roy waited patiently for the child to be convinced they
would all treasure the memento forever, and that an ice cream would be obtained
on the way out. Finally the snapshot was taken, the couple ecstatic, and Roy
turned graciously to respond to the next request.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Outside the auditorium, people made a beeline for the bookselling
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convincing and commendable work.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National Geographic has a very different approach to the subject. They call Arundathi Roy's "comrades" killers <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2015/04/india-coal-conflict-minerals-maoist-insurgency/" target="_blank">who stand in the way of development.</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Down To Earth begs to differ from National Geographic, <a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/mining/these-are-india-s-richest-lands-inhabited-by-some-of-the-most-deprived-people-61383" target="_blank">with hard facts and statistics.</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amnesty also condemns <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa20/4391/2016/en/" target="_blank">the violations of human rights </a>and the breach of Indian law in the mining regions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Written and published by - - Arabella von Arx</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Paley" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Grace Paley</a> (1922-2007)</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">American. She’s like an older sister to me. I read her audacious writing, and I think, wow, she was so intrepid! Robert Kaplan posts quotes and excerpts from writers on facebook, and that’s how I discovered her writing. Chance. She didn’t get half the recognition and awards she deserved, and is in danger of slipping into oblivion. Help! Rescue her unique work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>What to read:</b> her short stories. All of them: they're fun and mind blowing and very much grounded in NYC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Why she should be read: </b>Tone. Freedom of expression. Time capsule. Originality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Leduc" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">French writer</a> was mentored by Simone de Beauvoir. The latter was a good writer too, particularly her memoirs, but not underrated. De Beauvoir, and Sartre too, behaved most shabbily at times toward their intellectual competition. But de Beauvoir paid a publishing house to forward secretly Violette Leduc a monthly allowance that allowed her to write. Most elegant. Leduc’s writing was modern in its rawness and authenticity. Totally underrated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Why she should be read:</b> she was a groundbreaker, her work is unflinching in describing herself and others. There is no need to make allowance when you read her, as you might for mid 20<sup>th</sup> century writer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">I always feel bad for people who died in the early 1940s: imagine the picture of Europe they took to the grave. She was a lesbian as was Yourcenar. Marriage, and child rearing, had typically not allowed women to develop their creativity. Successful creative women in the 19<sup>th</sup> century and 20<sup>th</sup> century were usually not marriedL George Sand, George Eliott, the Brontës, some were even crippled like painter Schjerfbeck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Why she should be read:</b> her work is of a bold, romantic streak, without any sentimentality: a treat to devour under or over the covers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>What to read:</b> Difficult to recommend something, as she wrote in a whole range of genders. <i>The Wonderful Adventures of Nils</i> is a great book to read to children. I loved her Löwenskold series, which is more realistic than some of her gothic or fantasy works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">4. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Yourcenar" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Marguerite Yourcenar</a> (1903-1987)</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">Marguerite Yourcenar won a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Nobel Prize</a> yet she is not as read as she could be, maybe because</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> work is often historical fiction but she eschews the traps of the genre.</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"> She is admired by a number of writers for her rich prose and for the drama of her work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Kincaid" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Jamaica Kincaid</a> is a writer who is getting quite a bit of recognition. But that’s not good enough, because she is great, there is not a word that needs to be thrown away in her writing. She will only stop being underrated and scratched from this list when she gets the Nobel Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Why she should be read</b>: there is an undercurrent of passion, in the sense of Christ’s passion, in her work. Her prose is spare and powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">6. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Carson McCullers</a> 1917-1967</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">She married a man also called McCullers who also wrote and drank. Then they divorced. Then they married again. Without ever having to alter her name in her documents. She lived at a time when a lot of creative people did not live long: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock" style="color: purple;">Jackson Pollock</a>, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bowles" style="color: purple;">Jane Bowles</a> (should she be included in this list?), Albert Camus. She had a funny, sweet face. Her style is supposed to be Southern Gothic. I don’t know, I think she’s just a good writer. Her characters are memorable, they touch the heart without sentimentality. She’s underrated because they don’t read her in high schools when it would be most appropriate content, I rest my case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">7. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Pearl Buck</a> (1892-1973) </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">She led a fascinating life, being born the child of missionaries in China. She loved China, the Chinese people and peasantry which she described in her works. She was an activist against racism and sexism. </span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">The Good Earth was the second-best-selling novel of the 20th century, outsold only by "Gone With the Wind: the two best selling novels are works by women! The people voted!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Why</b> she should be read: great story teller, amazing insights into China at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>What to read:</b> Any of the Chinese novels, such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Earth" style="color: purple;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">The Good Earth</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">. A great read for teenagers too. I positively loved her memoir, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Angel-Pearl-S-Buck/dp/1599880067" target="_blank"><i>Fighting Angel</i>,</a> about her father, a tender and honest portrait of a stiff Baptist missionary with some redemptive traits. Apparently her portray of her mother, <i>The Exile</i>, is also very good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">You read right, Morante not Ferrante. In my opinion the better writer. A powerhouse of a writer. It’s so inspiring to read explosive works by women who lived when the consensus was that women were weak creatures that could only decorate vases. Women such as Ferrante and Lagerloff and the Brontës, of course, paid no heed to these superstitions, thankfully for us. It should also remind us creators how important it is to go it alone, without worrying about trends and opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">She was quite successful during her life. Some of her works were translated into English. However, modern Italian does not always translate well into English, the tone is drastically different. She expressed reservations with some of her translations. She was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Alberto Moravia</a>, the legendary Roman writer, whose writings also do not translate well into English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>What to read</b>: don’t, it’s too sad. Ok, if you must: La Storia. The story of an Italian woman and her little boy born from a rape by a German soldier. Mythic. Poignant. Unforgettable. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">The title is often not translated because it is not translatable. La Storia means both “story” and “history”:. Same in French with “histoire”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">9. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetta_Carleton" style="color: purple;">Jetta Carleton</a> - (1913-1999) - </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">Her novel T<i>he Moonflower Vine</i> was a success when it was published. Then she didn’t write for another 30 years. Reasons are suggested, she married (not a good idea for women creators in the 20<sup>th</sup> century!), she was busy founding a publishing house, but that did poorly. Maybe success was difficult for her to handle? It can be traumatic! Her second, and last novel, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica";">The Back Alleys of Spring</span></i><span style="font-family: "times";">,</span></span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;"> was written just before she was disabled by a stroke in the 1990s. It was eventually published posthumously in 2012.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">Speaking of which, she’s quite the ghost writer, she died in 1999 but went <a href="https://tlcbooktours.com/2012/01/jetta-carleton-author-of-clair-de-lune-on-tour-march-2012/" target="_blank">on a tour in 2012</a>...</span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yN0l4FdEd3g/XWCX28ESD4I/AAAAAAAABXQ/TOo251idrIc9yAu0yrBYqc4TUEHDJBrEACLcBGAs/s1600/Ursula_K_Le_Guin_woman_writer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: purple; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yN0l4FdEd3g/XWCX28ESD4I/AAAAAAAABXQ/TOo251idrIc9yAu0yrBYqc4TUEHDJBrEACLcBGAs/s1600/Ursula_K_Le_Guin_woman_writer.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">My count was 9 underrated women writers, and I could not narrow on anyone else: the Brontës got their due, George Eliott, George Sand have the fame they deserve (easier with a man’s first name, obviously), Marguerite Duras was an ace at self promotion, Alice Munro got the Nobel Prize. A bunch of writers could certainly do with more attention, but it’s not crying out loud: Doris Lessing, Patricia Highsmith (probably more highly regarded outside the US) the best crime writer ever, Françoise Sagan, Nathalie Sarraute, Astrid Lindgren, Sigrid Undset, Goliarda Sapienza, and most likely a whole beautiful array of writers from Asia and African and Latin America we wish we were reading (speak up in comments below!!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">Anyway, I asked around, and thought I would include this writer in the list who I have never read. A science fiction writer, she seems to gather suffrages around her writing, and is working in a genre that has been dominated by men. Time to give her a try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 14.6667px;">♛ </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">After I posted about <a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.com/2019/04/10-women-artists-that-are-vastly.html" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">the 10 most underrated women artists</a>, readers suggested I post about women musicians, which I felt I was not qualified to do, but am hoping someone else does. But I thought I would enjoy gathering a list of the most underrated women writers. My findings? <b><span style="color: blue;">Women writers have not been as systematically pushed out</span></b> from the public eye as artists. Most intriguing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">Why? It would be very interesting to investigate this phenomenon in depth, and someone should. Right now, I would venture that there is <span style="color: lime;"><b>an immediacy about books as media</b>. </span>No one worries about the original manuscript, the work is the words, its physical support does not matter so much. <span style="color: magenta;"><b>It’s a consumer good, and if it sells, it sells</b>.</span> The two most successful novels in the US 20<sup>th</sup> century were written by women: Gone is the Wind, and The Good Earth by Pearl Buck (see above) Paintings need to be presented in institutions that have been run by men. Museum still show an overwhelming majority of works by white men. Art works have to be reproduced in a costly process to be spread to a larger audience. To become a good writer, writers often recommend reading extensively: that was fairly easy for educated women in the 19<sup>th</sup> century. All a writer needs is paper, a pen and ... talent! To become a good artist, techniques need to be learned, supplies need to be accessible and affordable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">Women writers often published under men’s pen names in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, which was not the case for women artists who did not experience that need then, or earlier, in the 17<sup>th</sup> or 18<sup>th</sup> century. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>The suppression of women artists’ work mostly happened in the 19<sup>th</sup></b> </span>century, once their painting craft became Art with a capital A and was institutionalized via museums, and the founding of art history and theory. Novels were necessary fodder for the 19<sup>th</sup> century publications, which needed serials to hook its readership. These publications were not run by an academic establishment, they were profit making companies who didn’t care whether the content was written by a woman or a serial killer or a lemur, as long as it was successful. The 20<sup>th</sup> century might have been relatively less egalitarian as serialization disappeared and novels became literature, flanked with literary criticism and theory. <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Just as painters, women writers who were successful in their lifetime have often been evinced from cultural memory:</span></b> Pearl Buck, Selma Lagerloff, Jetta Carleton, Violette Leduc, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">♛ Two of the books, <i>Hadrian’s Memoirs</i> and <i>La Storia</i>, above are selections of <b><span style="color: #38761d;">the 100 best books selected by authors</span></b> such as Salman Rushdie and Milan Kundera. It’s <a href="https://www.bokklubben.no/SamboWeb/side.do?dokId=65500" target="_blank">a very interesting list</a> though a bit biased (well, the writers doing the selecting must have felt obliged to pick each other)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 14.6667px;">♛ </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 11pt;">I tried to use <b><span style="color: cyan;">photos of women</span></b> writers at different times of their life, to give a sample of role models for aspiring writers, young and not so young.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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impressions. Not an essay, not even an article. For the reader planning on
going to the Biennale. For the reader who has been to the Biennale, and those
who are planning not to go to the Biennale.</i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Euphemia UCAS"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Starting by the pavilions is not a good idea for people sensitive
to any hint of propaganda. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Venezuelan pavilion</b> which actually exhibited some interesting art made
no mystery of its intention (see its claim to being a peaceful nation in a time
of absolute corruption and crime), unless it was supposed to be sarcasm which
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>The Russian
pavilion </b>exposes a crowd pleasing installation of decors and automates inspired
by famous works owned by the Hermitage. Come to Leningrad! Sorry, - come to St
Petersburg, visit our beautiful Museum endowed with pieces by the Tsars before
all that unpleasant communist business happened, make Russia great again. In
fact, the exhibit refers to The Return of The Prodigal Son, by Rembrandt. There
is a video with some war stuff. We could read it as a criticism to Putin’s war
on poor Ukraine. Or as support to same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">In the <b>US
pavilion</b>, <a href="https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/martin-puryear-liberty-liberta-the-united-states-pavilion-venice-art-biennale-2019/" target="_blank">Martin Puryear</a> comments on being American: subverted hunting trophies, the eagle,
the tired myth of the pioneer. Isn’t that another form of propaganda even if
the artist is well intentioned? See how democratic we are, we let our artists
criticize our identity? The pavilion might be allowing free expression, but
this is a facade for a country that has legalized torture and that tramples
human rights when it comes to what is termed “illegal immigrants” who are generally people indigenous to the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Ghana Pavilion</b> boasts the great Maestro El Anutsai, stunning self portraits from the 60s by Felicia Abban, and ... <a href="https://www.riotmaterial.com/lynette-yiadom-boakye-wilmer-wilson-iv/" target="_blank">Yiadom-Boakye</a> whose top selling work does not exactly express her African roots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">A 112 min film at
<b>the Canada pavilion</b>. Maybe I had not slept enough, or was feeling more and more
cynical, but the day in the life of an indigenous man, an interesting concept,
failed to convince me. Old men obviously suffering from substance abuse hang around the icepack pretending to hold
strong to their traditions for the filmmaker’s sake. At one point, two young indigenous
girls speak coyly on camera about boys. As if they would. When we know what the sexual reality is for these girls, one of the highest rape rates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">The pavilions push against each other to grab the attention of the visitor: watch our video! Read our long texts! As if the longer the visitor stays, the more success for the pavilion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><u>All this lead me
to extract the following formula:</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>art x propaganda = propaganda</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Which would mean
propaganda has similar properties to zero. Works with other variables:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Writing x propaganda = propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Gardening x propaganda = propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Filmmaking x propaganda = propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Hair cut x propaganda = propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">What does it mean
to have countries show off art, artists in a pavilion? It’s a remnant of a time
when countries had pavilions at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair" target="_blank">World Fairs</a></span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">, promoting their national products and colonies. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">“</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">A major study by Tjaco
Walvis called "Expo 2000 Hanover in Numbers" showed that
improving </span><span style="font-family: "times";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_branding"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "helvetica"; text-decoration-line: none;">national image</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> was
the main goal for 73% of the countries participating in </span><span style="font-family: "times";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2000"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "helvetica"; text-decoration-line: none;">Expo 2000</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">.</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> Pavilions became a
kind of advertising campaign, and the Expo served as a vehicle for "nation
branding".”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">The pavilions might show work similar to the Biennale's exhibit but they turn the art into propaganda as it contributes to promoting their image.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">To foster the
Biennale’s integrity, it’s high time to transform the pavilions into a
different form, a difficult, costly decisions as the pavilions, these crowd
pleasers funded by individual countries are a boon for the Biennale. The pavilions could have different subsections that could change each edition: social issues one year such as immigration, refugees, gentrification, water access, etc. And another year show art by creators that are underrepresented: outsiders, traditional woman craft, art by children, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">I was certainly
gripped by the video installation of <b>the Australian pavilion</b>. Which strikes me
as a country which is genuinely taking a stab (is that really the expression?
So difficult to stay away from violent wording) at democracy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The videos take place in an imaginary
building. Images of people playing music, of meeting places, build a three
dimensional space where change and exchanges can happen. Much needed utopia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>The German
pavilion</b> felt like a meditative relief with its rocks, its simple installation,
its offer for people to sit and stop. A dam, exuding the power of an Egyptian temple,
will hold the deluge for how long?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An animated fresco at the Chinese Pavilion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">In <b>the Austrian
pavilion,</b> I was delighted to find Renate Bertlmann, an old favorite of mine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>The Danish
pavilion</b> exhibited an artist of Palestinian origins Larissa Sansour, a smart move to skirt nationalism. In one room, a huge black
globe pushes the limits of the walls. Close up, the black as it absorbs all
light, eschewing any shadowing, the globe looks flat, like a disk. Optical
illusion. Just as on a daily basis we aren’t aware we tread a globe. But if we take the time to stop and think, we know it’s a globe, and it’s in serious danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>“May you live in
interesting times” is the theme of the 2019 Biennale.</b> It is apparently <a href="https://universes.art/en/venice-biennale/2019/may-you-live-in-interesting-times" target="_blank">a curse</a> that a wise man in China threw to an enemy, but its origins are unclear. I wonder what is the literal
meaning of the ancient Chinese word, “interesting” seems such a modern concept.
It was in fact denounced by Susan Sontag as being linked to capitalism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>The exhibit A,</b> in
the Arsenale, makes for a consistent experience. The artists chosen, the work
presented, the actual exhibition of the pieces in terms of sequence and
placement, form an expressive ensemble. Some artists’ pieces are all gathered in
one space, others are sprinkled through the buildings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">A lot of the work
feels genuine. That skirted the common case at Art Fairs of walking into
through the exhibit and feeling like the works are all screaming as loud as
possible for attention: look at meeee!!! Buy meeee!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">There are <b>lots of
films</b>. Good films. But feels like a punishment to be stuck inside dark rooms
when it’s so beautiful out. Like a physical version of the Internet with its
motto: use videos, not still images, not words, to grab attention. Here's a film using big data and scientific data to make a rhythmical symphony of images.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">A lot of <b>dried
plants, weeds, seaweeds</b>. Indeed our poor oceans know “interesting times”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Some exhibits are
smelly. Nice to have an additional sense stimulated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>A piece with
interviews by Skype of soldiers</b> of various armies: most compelling, the
constant, the differences, and the sad fact that there are soldiers and there
are armies, and as long as we have these, there will be wars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster takes us on a virtual tour in a beautiful universe where we float or
fly. Bubbles come by. Shapes arise out of nothing, stun us with their shifting
form, their bright colors, it’s a creation story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b>The
gut wrenching photos of Soham Gupta</b>, taken in the slums of Calcutta. Humanity reduced to its common denominators pushed to extremes - hunger, love, disease, fear-, the images stab us out of our comfort. A baby looks too big for his mother's body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Elegant
installation with tartan from Anthea Hamilton:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This piece by Liu Wei, Microworld 2018, refers to the molecular but has the size of the macroscopic for our appreciation, with its beautiful shapes and colors. Spectacular, while managing to retain modesty, as it typical of this edition of the Biennale, with its new curator Ralph Rugoff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Questioning what it means to be "Asian" in our modern world, buddhist lama Khyentse Norbu presents options:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's good to run into old friends. Painting, a trend making a coming back in the current art world, is well represented, here by Julie Mehretu.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>1. You would be terribly jealous.</b> Pepys suffered from terrible bouts of that ailment when his wife took dancing lessons with a dance master. ‘<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">my wife, who by my folly has too much opportunity given her with the man, who is a pretty neat black man, but married. But it is a deadly folly and plague that I bring upon myself to be so jealous and by giving myself such an occasion more than my wife desired of giving her another month’s dancing. Which however shall be ended as soon as I can possibly. But I am ashamed to think what a course I did take by lying to see whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do, and other things to raise my suspicion of her, but I found no true cause of doing it.'</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And just as he said above, he soon started to approach women, and young girls, to solicit sex or sexual interactions. Maybe that was his way to deal with his jealousy. It's certainly not pretty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">England is also at war with the Dutch which creates a lot of unrest as huge amount of resources go to the war. The sailors are unpaid and refuse to serve again. Their wives demonstrate, harass the navy officials including Pepys who expresses his sympathy in his Journal. He’s very critical of the authorities, particularly of the King. He reports his whoring, his mistresses, his friendships with rogues. One has to wonder who he writes his Journal for. He reports what’s happening politically and also intimate: the death of his brother, his jealousy of his wife’s “dark” dance master. That’s quite endearing. It’s a bit hard to follow the politics as there are so many players, still the mixture of macrocosm and microcosm is so compelling. He’s a born narrator. His Journal is very precious to him. At one point, terrified of an impending invasion of the Dutch, which does not happen, he sends his wife to the country side with a lot of their gold and ... his Journal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And Pepys has to keep himself up to date with current politics. His position depended on this protectors, and he had to navigate some hairy situations. Though he kept climbing the ladder after he stopped writing his journal (he thought he was going blind) and reached a very high position, he eventually fell out with his protectors, even being jailed for a brief time on accusation of Jacobinism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'After that I went by water home, where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about, and in my passion kicked the little fine basket, which I bought her in Holland, and broke it, which troubled me after I had done it. '</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>I have been reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys" target="_blank">Samuel Pepys' diary</a>. The abridged version: one volume of about 600 pages whereas the whole diary takes up <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4200/4200-h/4200-h.htm" target="_blank">10 such volumes</a>. It makes for a fascinating read, and offers such a unique insight in the London of the mid 17th century. It's a raucous time: he saw the execution of Charles I, t<a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-english-restoration" target="_blank">he Restoration</a>, the persecution of Catholics and Quakers and other non Anglican church believers, various wars, the Great Fire of London, the Plague.</i> He lived from 1633 to 1703.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. <b>You have no schedule. </b>He works for the Navy but no one
seems to have heard of office hours. He usually gets up really early, but
he might go to bed one night at 3am, and another day get up at 3am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. <b>You socialize all the time.</b><b> </b> He typically went to the pub two to three times a day. He
has people over for dinner, at midday, or is invited. Also in the evening, but
not as much. He had tens of friends, women and men alike, as well as relatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. <b>You go to the theater a lot. </b><span style="background-color: white;">Pepys sees the same plays many
times over. Here's what he thought of A Midsummer’s Night: '<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;">we
sa</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;">w “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never seen before, nor shall ever
again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' –
well, he’s not remembered for being a literary critic.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. <b>Music is a huge part of your life. </b>When Pepys goes home
at lunch time, he often plays music on his flagelette (a wind instrument) while his wife sings. And
then again at night. If he hears music played, a song sung, he cannot resist
the attraction, and has to find who is playing, who is singing, particularly
if they’re good. A talent for music will reinforce his friendships of which he
has many. His wife asks him for a lady companion as they re going up in the
world. At first, he renegades at the expense. But when the young lady comes and
he finds she can sing, and is rather pretty, he yields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. <b>There was little censorship</b> yet, you didn’t have to worry
so much about being correct. Pepys “shits”, and talks about his anus and his
stools abundantly. And there is no correct spelling. He writes people’s names
as he sees fits. And spells some words in various variants with no particular
rule. Behavior also seems to have been looser, less repressed if a bit cruder. Pepys and his wife enjoy watching an execution on a Sunday, though these shows do get mobbed. A couple of Lords regularly enjoy running around the streets of London naked and singing "bawdy" songs. They get arrested by the watch, and the King has to go and bail them out. Then they all go to visit prostitutes together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. <b>It was an exciting time</b>, half way between an era of
obscurantism and one of discoveries. It’s curious the irrational things Pepys
will believe, when he is a man of intelligence, and passionate about science. He
teaches his wife mathematics, and takes lessons himself from various scholars. He’s
delighted that he’s been invited to belong to the Royal Society. There, he
attends scientific demonstrations. He has a friend who invents an unsinkable double-shelled
ship, the model of which gets sold to the navy, but the first one produced
promptly sinks. An early Titanic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">7. <b>Goods were precious</b>. Pepys gets excited about getting a
pettycoat for his wife, or a trinket. He's very excited about the purchase of a watch. Then he remembers he had had one, but didn't like using it! But he’s most passionate about books,
each acquisition is a source of future joy: they offer knowledge to his avid mind, whether about microscopy or other parts of the world. Sometimes, he goes and reads at his
bookseller, who seems to encourage it. The bookseller’s entire lot goes in
smoke during the Great Fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">8. <b>You have flexible morals.</b> Pepys, who never had to worry
about #metoo, puts pressure on his suppliants’ wives to have sex with him. He
describes these interactions in a despicable mixture of Spanish and French and
English, producing a kind of Lingua Franca of misbehavior. That’s a most detestable
aspect to his personality which is quite attractive otherwise. Moments
after these spurts of fornication, he goes to church. Mostly to watch the
attractive women at the service, but he does pay attention to the sermon which
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shame by being to catalogued in his library after he dies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">9. <b>You are moving up socially. </b>Pepys was the son of a
tailor. He was smart and got a scholarship to attend Oxford where he learned
Latin and Ancient Greek. He got under the protection of an aristocrat that was
a remote family connection and entered the administration of the Navy. Thanks
to his connections, and probably to his intelligence and social skills, he gets
more and more responsibility, and he becomes richer. Every month, he makes his
account to figure out how rich he has become. It’s fascinating to see him hit
landmarks in that ascension: he purchases a powdered wig, which takes some
encouragements from his servants for him to wear outside the house. Later,
he plans on getting his own coach with coachman and horses.</span><br />
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and safe</b>. He escaped the great Fire of London, and the Plague. His account
makes you realize that the Plague was much more lethal for poor people. Anyone
who could afford it fled the City. It’s surprising how much it was business as
usual. The government, the nobility, the bourgeoisie all transfer to the outer
suburbs. And party away. Pepys takes a ferry back and forth to visit his wife.
A ferry! That seems the worst place to be in a time of epidemics, the
equivalent of taking a plane, as you know a sure way nowadays to catch a virus
going around. The City is much more affected, and he worries every time he has
to leave the countryside. He does mention stumbling in the dark on a corpse
left on the street. But it’s not the image we might have of ghostly streets with
barricaded windows and doors, of lone passerby wearing masks and walking close
to the walls, head down. Maybe that mental picture of the Plague is closer to what
the situation was like in mainland Europe. At the end of every month, he takes
the time to review his situation, and he thanks God for him and his wife being
in good health, for his good economic situation. Almost everyday, he eats and drinks and sings with friends, reporting in his diary they "made very merry".</span><br />
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Take The Beatles superlative Sgt Peppers’ Lonely Heart Club
Band album, have it turned into a modern dance show by super fun
choreographer Mark Morris: <span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>we had to be in for a treat.</b></span> Even if the
show didn’t break the intellectual sound barrier, it was bound to be highly
entertaining and pleasurable. Well, no, and I am compelled to introduce a sad
face 😢to support this statement.</div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>The costumes </b></span>were super yummy, I admit.</div>
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The music was awesome, it was arranged by <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Ethan Iverson</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 19px;"> </span>to sound more like a
musical's score, and the Beatles music can go there without blushing.</div>
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The whole show came across as <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>a homage to the American
musicals of the 60s</b></span>, think American in Paris. Don’t think West Side Story with
its grand tragedies. So what about the Beatles? What about their genial breakthrough
in terms of the history of music with that album?</div>
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The Sgt Peppers’ Lonely Heart Club Band was the band’s
homage to their working class origin. <span style="color: magenta;">They offered the</span> <span style="color: lime;">music band </span><span style="color: blue;">culture’s
</span><span style="color: cyan;">naive artistry to the</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">wild</span> <span style="color: #f1c232;">wild world of the 60s</span> <span style="color: red;">with drugs</span> <span style="color: orange;">and yoga and crazy</span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">costumes</span> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and... and dark glasses</span>. They paid homage to the working class’ sweet
taste for tackiness, and at the same time they acknowledged the hardships of
these Lonely Hearts. So little of that groundbreaking approach to making an
album is conveyed by the show. <span style="color: lime;">The Penny Lane song</span> does contribute some nice
working class content, but again it’s all fun and eye candy.</div>
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Unfortunately, additionally to the lack of meaning, <span style="color: #134f5c;">the
choreography was so so so so repetitive</span>. A little repetition is satisfying, a lot turns
sedative. Lots and lots of pieces with couples, female/male couples,
female/female couples, male/male couples, loving, having fun. How did that
relate to the album?</div>
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The dance movements had some relevance to what is being done
now, nothing very ground breaking, and to American musicals, as mentioned, and
to 60s pop dance such as the twist – that last part most enjoyable, naturally.
Some of the dancing was quite casual, a bit sloppy, without the usual
perfection reached for in modern dance. Nice.</div>
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The cancan was fun. There was some interesting stuff about
<span style="color: #b45f06;">mathematical permutations </span>of movements: at first the whole line does the same
movements, then they get shifted so that one dancer does movement #1, 2<sup>nd</sup>
dancer movement #2, 3<sup>rd</sup> dancer movement #1. At the next round, the
movements shift across three dancers (easier to do than to explain) instead of
two. That was fun. That type of permutation was applied to another part of the
choreography too. Choreographers can get quite obsessed with mathematical
patterns. But what’s that got to do with the Beatles? With the 60s? <br />
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The show was sprightly and pretty vacuous, <span style="color: #990000;">it was like The
Monkees to the Beatles</span>. The sense of optimism hit the mark better. But the 60s were not just about being a pretty face, it was not just
about sex, drugs and rock and roll, remember? Vietnam War protests. Women’s
Lib. Civil Rights movements. An interest in other cultures. Non violence. Tolerance. Change.
Imagination. The only part where this was alluded to, aside from the homosexual
couples, was the interpretation of the song A Day In The Life aka “I heard the
news today”. The choreography nailed the feeling of the song, the music
supporting beautifully with the use of the theremin: a bit sad, a bit sloppy,
and a bit political. The Beatles! How I wish the rest of the show had been in
tune, a contemporary dance show offering us an interpretation of that genius
album. </div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">The musicians were great.</span> <span style="color: lime;">The dancers were great.</span> They’re all shapes and forms, that’s
cool. One was <span style="color: #c27ba0;">pregnant!</span> How about that?! A woman, I think. </div>
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Mark Morris bypassed Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds for this show. HOW
ABOUT THAT?! I couldn’t believe it. But I respect that choice, it is an obvious
iconic song to exploit, though the choreographer of the superlatively fun Nutcracker
ballet is usually not too worried about subtlety.</div>
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I wrote a blog entry a couple of weeks ago entitled
it 'The Lehman Trilogy: <a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-lehmann-trilogy-ode-to-patriarchy.html" target="_blank">An Ode to Patriarchy, Judaism, and Capitalism.</a>'<br />
That play was written by a man, based on a book by a man, directed
by a man, and played by three male actors.<br />
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<b>Grief is the Thing with Feathers</b>, playing at the beautiful <a href="https://stannswarehouse.org/show/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers/" target="_blank">St Ann's Warehouse</a> in Dumbo, shares these features:
based on the best seller written by Max Porter, it is staged by the inventive
Enda Walsh, and stars a man and two boys. But where the creators of the Lehman trilogy didn’t think the play
needed women to tell the story of a family, ‘Grief’ tells of the disappearance of one
woman as defining the whole story of that masculine family at that point in their life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-87MzvKEWSHU/XMcURrgOpYI/AAAAAAAABPA/OKkO-3sGfWEYqi9I3JhZpLHZCt4qrJjBQCLcBGAs/s1600/Cillian_Murphy_bleeds_Grief_Feathers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Cambria; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-87MzvKEWSHU/XMcURrgOpYI/AAAAAAAABPA/OKkO-3sGfWEYqi9I3JhZpLHZCt4qrJjBQCLcBGAs/s320/Cillian_Murphy_bleeds_Grief_Feathers.jpg" width="230" /></a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillian_Murphy" target="_blank">Cillian Murphy</a> plays a father who loses his wife abruptly.</b> He,
and his two young sons, are visited by Crow, which is also played by Murphy.
Crow is evil and elegant. Crow is witty and articulate, cruel <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and detached. A
black, hooded bathrobe turns Murphy into the mythical bird, and any evil
creature associated with fear, with loss, with death: demons, ogres, henchman
even. He is the one who imposes pain. As Crow, Murphy speaks with the literary
English accented voice of fairy tales turned wrong, of horror films. The
powerful male voice is further amplified, distorted until the beautiful text
becomes incomprehensible. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">The book, and the play, are based in par</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">t on a body of poems, The Crow, that Ted Hughes wrote after the
suicide of Sylvia Plath. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cillian-murphy" target="_blank">Murphy</a> is the fascinating actor of the Internet series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaky_Blinders_(TV_series)" target="_blank">‘PeakyBlinders’</a>. With his square jaw and stunning blue eyes, glamor is in his range.
He leaves all that backstage as he turns into an Irish father, with an unflattering
hair style, unfashionable moustache, drab clothes. H portrays the fallibility of a
man, as a lover, as a husband, as a father. That requires modesty.<br />
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<b>When the actor switches to being Crow,
he recovers his potential for glamor, all brilliance, all aloofness</b> from
anything that ties humans down: emotions, fears, needs. His bird dance,
trancelike, dazzles with its lightness, his delivery of the text seduces with
its perfect articulation. He won the <a href="http://stagevoices.com/2019/04/03/the-irish-times-irish-theatre-awards-and-the-2019-winners-are/" target="_blank">Irish Times award</a> for this near one-man show in which streams of sweat literally jets out of his body from the physicality of the performance.<br />
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pFw_9M-7qx8/XMcURVG5GUI/AAAAAAAABO4/qBI8vsUPlEg47w0QVGpwF4cn536SxCglwCLcBGAs/s1600/Cillian_Murphy_Perched_Grief.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Cambria; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pFw_9M-7qx8/XMcURVG5GUI/AAAAAAAABO4/qBI8vsUPlEg47w0QVGpwF4cn536SxCglwCLcBGAs/s400/Cillian_Murphy_Perched_Grief.jpg" width="400" /></a><b>How can grief, that utterly internal experience, so huge, so
overwhelming, liquefying of the insides, be represented</b> on stage which by
definition shows only the exterior of a human body? In part, in this case, by
projecting the pain onto the walls. They are scratched with the words, with
scribbled words, that turn to pure scribble, that paint the walls black. The whole
stage is plunged in darkness. Suddenly Crow is perched on the 2<sup>nd</sup> floor, light
strobes, throbs like sobs in the throat, like blood in the head. It’s
terrifying as it looks like Crow might try to fly, and he would crash, being only human.<br />
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<b>The moment of terror, the father’s madness passes thanks to the cathartic experience. </b>Back
to the mundane London apartment. The stage is mostly empty but for the bare necessities. A kitchen for food.
Bunk beds for the boys to sleep. The father does not have
a bed. A home movies is projected on the wall. Day trip to the beach. The
mother’s face. She’s just a woman. One woman. But we know that every trait of
her face, every expression is beloved by the three males in her life, who,
dwarfed by her image and her presence, watch her. Her projection becomes huge, encompasses
all three walls, the floor of the stage until it diffuses into the whole
theater and can’t be read anymore. <br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RU7SVVRoFLc/XMcURzujgLI/AAAAAAAABPE/_lVCXdS730IF7_z9aNDRGV3nqS34v12fwCLcBGAs/s1600/Grief_Cillian_Murphy_Colm-Hogan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Cambria; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RU7SVVRoFLc/XMcURzujgLI/AAAAAAAABPE/_lVCXdS730IF7_z9aNDRGV3nqS34v12fwCLcBGAs/s320/Grief_Cillian_Murphy_Colm-Hogan.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>The power of women. And isn’t that what they are forever
being punished for by men?</b> Girls as sisters, women as mothers, as life partners
to men, loom huge over the male emotional landscape with their psychological
powers, the power of their beauty, of their bodies, and at the same time, the power of their
frailty, the innocence of not knowing their own power. However much material submission
men impose on women, as they have done on other groups of human beings,
whether they lock them indoor, deny them education, property, respect, whether
they are beaten, the dependence of men’s happiness on women can never be reversed. In this play, the boys and their father's world turns to chaos and violence without the presence of the woman in their life.<br />
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<b>The lights, the projections, the distorted voice turn the major
part of the play into a noisy experience</b> that could have done with a bit more
modulation. In the end, the father recovers his sanity, is able to care for his
young, and <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grief might turn back into "Hope that thing with feathers".</span> In an
effective staging trick, the pantry that was empty because of the
father’s incapacitation, has miraculously refilled with cans and jars of food: sustenance has been
recovered.<br />
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<i>Hilma af Klint's exhibition Paintings for the Future has been a sensation. It's the most successful exhibition at he Guggenheim ever: 600,000 visitors. I don't have much to add to the general conversation. I have just a few pondering thoughts:</i><br />
<b style="font-size: 16px;">Why is her work so popular?</b><br />
<b>Is it sad that fame came too late?</b><br />
<b>Would it have changed the course of Modern Art?</b><br />
<b>Where was the work since she died in 1944?</b><br />
<b>How much money is the work worth?</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>T</i>hought: Why is her work so popular?</b></span></div>
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<b>Thought: Is it sad that fame came too late?</b></div>
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I wondered whether it is sad that she was not celebrated during her lifetime, as is the case for Kahlo and O'Keefe who would have very much enjoyed the fame their work attracts now. It probably was not so important to Hilma af Klint who had a spiritual approach to creating. But she must have thought the spirits had something to communicate to the world through her paintings. Rudolf Steiner, the theosophy guru, ordered her not to show her work for 50 years. Which is probably how long it took until her first works were shown to the world.</div>
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Her work would not have been understood nor welcomed by her contemporaries. See van Gogh, see Gauguin, or Seurat. The critics would have laughed. But her peer might have been struck by her audacity.<br />
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<b>Thought: Would it have changed the course of Modern Art?</b></div>
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She was the first Western artist to paint abstractions. Had they been seen at least by contemporary artists, her work might have changed the course of Modern Art. Put it on a faster track. The first abstractions were not painted until about 10 years later, and they tended to be more timid than hers. Her work also demonstrates an astounding variety. Below landscapes by Kandinsky (on the left) and by Malevich (on the right) both painted around 1906: they were looking for abstraction but had not found it yet!<br />
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<b>Thought: I wish I had been the one to discover the trove!</b></div>
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I day dream: imagine opening the door to a barn and coming upon these superlative paintings! Breathtaking moment. Well, it's actually pretty much how it happened. When she died in 1944, she requested that her work not be shown for another 20 years. Hence the title of the show, Paintings for the Future is particularly apt. She left her 1000+ paintings, her texts, her notebooks to her nephew, Eric af Klint, an admiral in the navy. His reaction, according to his son Johan? "he was horrified". He probably felt this legacy of crazy paintings by his crazy old aunt was a curse more than anything else. It was stored in fact in a barn until the farmer asked them to move it out.<br />
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<b>Thought: What is the future of the Paintings for the Future?</b></div>
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Her nephew Eric af Klint started <a href="https://www.hilmaafklint.se/about-the-foundation-eng/" target="_blank">a foundation</a> in her name in 1972 which is worthy, considering he did not appreciate it, but just to preserved her work, without exhibiting it. According to her will, her work could have been shown from 1964, andit took another 20 years before it was first exhibited internationally at the 1986 Los Angeles show "The Spiritual in Art". MOMA did not include any of her work in its 2012 show "Inventing Abstraction". Apparently, they alleged as the reason that she did not define her work as art, - despite the fact that she went to art school and was trained as an artist. Occultism worries the establishment.<br />
But in primary schools all over, children will be doing Hilma af Klint art projects. And young women scholars will write their thesis on her work for their art history degree!<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/21/hilma-af-klint-occult-spiritualism-abstract-serpentine-gallery" target="_blank">The future of the work</a> is uncertain. Not a single one has been sold yet, quite an incredible fact in regards to the monetization of the art world. Her work is in the position of a young, virginal girl, bare foot in her white night gown. Who will pay the most to wed her? Once a work or two has been sold, the fee paid for it will determine her place in the hierarchy of art economics. Will it be 10MYO, say like a Paul Signac or 100MYO, like a Modigliani? There is talk of the Foundation selling some of her work, and they are likely to go for a pretty penny, given the popularity of the show which will pay its money back for Museums. The fees would be used by the foundation to fund research into the artist and her work, assures Patrick O'Neill, the chairwoman of the Foundation. As there are more than 1000 paintings, that means that bundle of works left in a barn would be worth maybe half a billion dollars. An ironical lot of money for work by a woman who struggled financially through her life. But same story as van Gogh or Seurat, naturally. Now Robert Longo lives on the fat of the land with works that fetch 500K+, and where will they be in 100 years? </div>
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I could not find information, and the exhibition shares none, about what art and artists she was exposed to. It's clear from her early work that she was familiar with contemporary painters,whether local ones or French: Monet, Manet. She was certainly influenced by science aesthetics as in the elegant scientific plate which she drew (see below) to sustain herself.<br />
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here is my take on that trilogy of patriarchy, Judaism and capitalism:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><b><span style="color: red;">Patriarchy:</span></b> the
story of a family is told through three men and their descendants. </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">This is the story of the American Dream: three hard working brothers, clever, zealous, with strong moral values, come to America and make it big: first selling cloth, then shoes, then banking, then investments. The perfect curve.</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Three men, three male actors: </span><b style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Simon Russell Beale</b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, </span><b style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adam Godley</b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, and </span><b style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ben Miles</b><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">. No women. From time to time,
one of the actors plays a woman, a fiancée or a lover here and there, with the
kind of obvious comedy that had </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">already</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"> </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">Greek audiences laughing in 500BC.
Women, as far as Sam Mendes, the director, and the producers of this play are concerned, play such a minor
role in a family dynasty that they are not worth representing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">It would have been
much more interesting, and would have made a point, if the Lehmann brothers had
been played by women actors, just as Caryl Churchill had in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_9_(play)" target="_blank">Cloud 9,</a></i> a play in which men were played
by women, and whites by blacks, and vice versa. But women playing men do not draw the laughs that the reverse cross gender acting does, just as
women nowadays can dress as men (they look stylish!) without anyone blinking, when a man in a dress (they look ridiculous!) is a “crossdresser”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The set includes a revolving stage. Beware of revolving stages, they usually flag a production that is going to favor brassiness over reflection and creativity, except if handled by <a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.com/2017/03/some-deus-lot-of-machina-robert-lepages.html" target="_blank">Robert Lepage</a>. A sofa on stage is also a flag, this one usually guaranteeing a production that will not take any risks creatively. The various sides of the revolving stage were not really differentiated, so it did not serve the purpose of offering different sets for different scenes. On the other hand, the revolving did bring to mind effectively the passing of time. There were other good choices: no period costumes and accessories, and a stunning stage, empty but for the revolving gizmo, and very large (there’s plenty of room at the Armory) with a projection of live images on the curved back wall. Pretty spectacular. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The content is not scripted into scenes, little dialogue takes place. That can make for a new interesting take on the theatrical form, but did not salvage this propaganda piece from turning into pantomime.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">That’s the least
objectionable of the three institutions which are promoted in the play. Judaism
has generated a rich culture, and produced great thinkers (Marx! Beniamin! Arendt!),
writers (so many: Proust! Roth! Singer! Cohen - several! Krauss!), and numerous other creators in
the arts and science. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">Moral values are presented in the play as arising from the brothers’ commitment to Judaism. This is
propaganda for a religion, and I resent the promotion of any religion. Let
people choose their religion and spare us its praise. In fact, historically, moral values have not been linked to religious bigotry,
some religions having a worse track record than others, such as Christianity. The majority of the population in Israel is committed to Judaism, and that has not
prevented the country from accumulating a shameful <a href="https://www.btselem.org/topic/international_law" target="_blank">human rights record</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">As it happens, and
as the </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-lehman-trilogy/2019/04/08/51f6ed8c-5a3e-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html?utm_term=.d2b445e0c7dc" style="font-family: "Euphemia UCAS"; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">Washington Post</a><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;"> pointed out, the immigrant Lehmann brothers’ moral values
did not prevent them from owning slaves, at a time when objections were being
expressed loudly across the Western world. The American dream has been built on the
backs of ethnic minorities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">The author, <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Massini" target="_blank">Stefano Massini,</a> is Jewish. I don’t find that exactly surprising. He wrote a play about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya" target="_blank">Anna Politkovskaja</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">the woman journalist
who was victim of Putin’s dictatorship. Seems like a worthy endeavor. Another
play has not come to the USA: it’s called “Credo in unsolodio”, translated as “I
believe in onlyonegod”, and is an indictment of Muslim terrorism. Given the bias in "The Lehman Trilogy", I fear Islam might not get a fair portrayal by Massini. Will the
Armory bring that work to New York too? For the sake of peace in the world and in our city, how about not?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">By the second interval,
I had had enough. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are told about
the brothers financing railways (progress!), King Kong (culture!), but very little about the ills of the capitalist system: its false dreams, its false promises of happiness through possession of goods, its turning of human beings into efficient little working machines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">I</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"> was waiting with trepidation</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;"> to see how 2008 would be
pictured: an apocalyptic armageddon, right? Terribly
disappointing. The cast dances a frenzied twist through the 90s, convincingly.
Just as in the 20s, it seemed like there was no end to miraculous speculations.
Then the play fizzles into nothing much. Certainly n</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";">othing on the hyperbolic scale of the 00s mortgage scandal.</span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas";"> </span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; font-size: 12pt;">The brothers did not respect shiva anymore,
so they lost their company. No moral indictment of the criminals that brought about
the crashing of an economy, and much hardship to the common people: loss of jobs, home
repossessions. I don’t see how you can tell the story of the Lehman family and their company without alluding to the hardships caused by the greed and irresponsibility of the banking and investment world.</span></div>
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raved. I enjoyed looking at Adam Godley's face and ears, they are seriously extraordinary, unlike the production.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the list of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">100 most expensive art work</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> sold, the first work by a woman is in 100th place (maybe they cheated a little and dropped a few male artworks to sneak in one woman, Georgia O'Keefe, and spare our feelings). This stresses how much women's work has been suppressed and underrated. I believed for the longest time that women had created very little art work throughout the centuries, because they were discouraged to do so, did not have access to instruction nor to adequate equipment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I researched the project <a href="http://en.arabellahutter.com/the-thread/" target="_blank">The Thread</a> where I use the art work of women to illustrate women's condition through History, I realized that many more women created than I expected. Some were famous in their time such as Sofonisba Anguissola and Giovanna Garzoni. It was later that their work was systematically excluded from museums and art history books. I have enjoyed many wonderful, underrated artists's works. Here are some my favorite works, the ones that also should sell for hundreds of millions of dollars if any work of art should sell for that kind of money. Absent from the list are the most famous women artists whose work also should be in the 100 most expensive list, but who are not as underrated: Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun, Marina Abramovic. This is also a list concerned mostly with Western Art. We would need a more knowledgable art historian, and a much, much longer list for all the women creators from the rest of the world.</span></div>
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<b>Well, from the inside, the building is a disappointment,
because it looks like a building. And a pretty dull one at that.</b> From the
front, the structure looks like a suspended garden conceived by an alien. The
architect Liz Diller worked with the brief of not having the architecture get
in the way. It’s a rectangle. It might be an artistic center, but it has no
center. The entrance and lobby look like they belong to a fairly nice company
building. Also, you don't know what the building looks like from the outside, a weird feeling.<br />
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<b>She says they looked to create something flexible, change on
demand, agile without defaulting to the generic, with a reference to industrial
NYC. </b>Wish the reference were more obvious. The materials are generic, and so are the colors: white, grey and black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Looks like an office building. Large theater has been compared to cathedral, but transcendence is missing. </span>Column free performances, telescopic devices can enlarge the spaces into the plaza which will serve for open air events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That sounds pretty cool. In winter, large indoor spaces. In summer, large outdoor.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s impressive that the architectural conception of the center started
in 2008, the apocalyptic year where the future looked bleak. It might have
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Liz said: “We were challenged to serve artists and we hope
the building will challenge the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>artists back.” Nicely phrased, but it doesn’t relate to this particular building, unless the artists are challenged to produce dull art. And for
the visitor, there is no joy from the building itself unlike, for example, the Whitney and its stunning spaces, it’s views, its terraces. Or the New Museum.</div>
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players who have the kind of money that gets you well patted. And spoke about money. </b>The Shed's chair, Dan Doctoroff, gave this definition <b> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">A </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a;">shed</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> is defined as an open-ended structure with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a;">tools" -well actually this definition can not be found in any dictionaries, but it serves their PR so well: tools for the artists! For the arts! Of course, the real purpose of the name is the hilarious contradiction between the cost of the simple structure it alludes to, and the price tag of this building at </span>500 MYO $ (not including the commissioned work?).</span> In fact, invitees to the
opening could not find “The Shed” as they should have been looking instead for “The
Bloomberg Building”. And then the next speakers spoke about community, “civic
imagination”, human creativity for the greater good. So on the one hand, huge
amount of donations from the moneyed community that goes to who exactly? That’s
one more new art center in the last decade, after the Park Armory, PS1, Brick,
the Fisher Theater, The Theater for a New Audience, The New Museum. I’m
forgetting some. Well, selfishly, I like it, it works for me. I love art,
shows, music. The bill for these centers must amount to a couple of billions dollars collectively. How many more art centers can the city absorb? It does brings tourists
in, and that’s good for the economy. But if the city, if donors do not invest
in affordable housing, the people of New York will be gone. Nowadays, the only
real local people in Manhattan that work there and breathe there and make
babies there and are not flying to the Hamptons at the weekend, and are not
bicoastal, and are not bicontinental, and have an accent when they speak, live
in the projects, or in Chinatown or the Northern tip of the island.<br />
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<b>If they go,
if the indigenous people of the 5 boroughs are pushed out, New York will lose its
identity. And its gritty soul. And no amount of art will buy it back. </b>Switzerland has
the means to buy art, and they do. They bought the Béjart ballet, they founded
massively endowed cultural endeavors. It has not made Switzerland the vibrant
place that immigrant and working class people and foreigners build together out
of need, out of striving hard to make their lives within an urban context.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Remark #3: Rehearsals but the art! The performances!</span></h3>
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<b>The building offers no joy, but the rehearsals in progress
conveyed the excitement, the range of works commissioned.</b> Alex Poots was
everywhere, apparently multiplying himself to be present at every event, like
the good spirit of the place. The artistic director, he is passionate and
convincing, compassionate even, possibly. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the programmer, also blessed the opening with
his benevolent presence. <br />
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Richter collaboration.</b> Singers sprinkled amongst the crowd sing church-like
music. The gallery is hung with Richter tapestries and banners that are so rich
visually it’s ecstatic. In a panel discussion, Steven Reich spoke about 12<sup>th</sup>
century music, but it was difficult to hear what he said, they did not use
mics. Didn't matter too much, just good to see him, still alive, still kicking. He made jokes, used self derision but was not convincing at it, the maestro of minimalist music.</div>
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Then from Steven Reich up a couple of floors to a rehearsal with Renee Flemmmming
and a libretto written by Anne Carson. Yep. That’s why I live in NYC despite
the price of real estate. The rehearsal seemed so difficult because there is a
lot of text, not necessarily set to music. I can understand saying by heart a
play/libretto in its order. But there it was like: OK, let’s start at “Norma
Jean when she was interviewed” , and the performers just had to go right into
it, there and then. For 5 minutes. Then stop. Renee commented that the sound
quality had become drier. She was funny, and discreetly flamboyant (that’s
possible for opera singers). The performers waited for some sound issue. Then
started again for a 2 min stretch. I felt honored to spy on the proceedings.
Photos not allowed, but I can vouch the text is so intriguing, written by poet
extraordinaire Anne Carson, the singing beautiful, interesting direction and
staging.<br />
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<b>Rehearsal of the history of African American music. Energetic and fun. </b>From Ray
Charles to Count Basie to a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>vibrant rendition of “I’m just a jealous guy”, better than the original,
no kidding. Not sure what John Lennon was doing there but he was certainly
influenced by African American music. As Alex Poots noted, African American music has been one of the most influential art movements in the world and to the world.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A demonstration by the performers of a martial arts musical </b><span style="background: white; color: #545454;">c</span><span style="background: white;">o-conceived by Chen
Shi-Zheng </span><b><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto";">and the
Kung Fu</span></b><span style="background: white;"><b> Panda screenwriters</b></span>. Because, as Alex Poots pointed out, martial arts are an art form. Obviously trying to reach a broader
audience. After only two weeks of rehearsal, the performances were pretty
breathtaking, under a huge skylight above which pretty trash was flying on
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The broad range of the commissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Performers, directors, artists, musicians, stage managers, producers.
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<i>Written as witnessed by - - Arabella Hutter von Arx</i><br />
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<i>This blog entry was written rapidly: it's fast and serious.</i><br />
<i>Here are some of my more cautious writings:</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<a href="https://www.riotmaterial.com/lynette-yiadom-boakye-wilmer-wilson-iv/" target="_blank">article about black artists Yiadom-Boakye and Wilmer Wilson IV</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.riotmaterial.com/manifesta-12/" target="_blank">article about Manifesta, the Nomadic biennale out to change the world</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.arabellahutter.com/the-thread/" target="_blank">poetic fiction: 100 women talk to their daughters </a><br />
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no critics were more qualified than I, or </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">anyone else!</span><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">Here’s an extract from an interview with
thinker<b> </b></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;"><b>Paul Ricoeur</b></span><span style="font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">about criticism. He </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">proposes that the critic has to
balance between a partisan position (I know it all), </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">and a completely neutral
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That does not ring to the same tune </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">as my approach. I try to transmit my impression
of the show to those readers </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">who </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">have not seen it, and to stimulate thought and
appreciation in those who </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">have </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">seen the show, in a kind of remote conversation. And I do spend time </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">thinking about the show, more or less whether I'm writing a fast entry from my </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">blog or an in depth article for a magazine. The insights I get from this process </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">might be right, might be wrong. I am not "explaining" but my mulling might bring </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">some </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">clarification if the analysis I propose rings true to the reader.</span><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-indent: 36.25pt;">I do find Paul Ricoeur’s way of expressing
himself “sympathique” (his last name, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">Ricoeur, sounds like "laugh heart'):</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-indent: 36.25pt;">‘Between partisan criticism, which is an act
of violence done to the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">text and, </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">perhaps, to the read</span>er, and this hypocritical claim that the </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">critic belongs n</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">owhere, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">there is this kind of self-criticism
by the critic who knows that it is always from </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">the </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">basis of a prejudice that </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">one understands som</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">ething. In other words, it <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">is </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">necessary to </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">understand </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">that al<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">l
comprehension implies a pre-comprehension; </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">that </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">is to say, a
certain affi</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">nity with the object and,
therefore, also a </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">whole
cultural </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">equipment. It is from the depth of a certain culture </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">that I approach a new object </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">of the culture.
As a result, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">pre-comprehension and
prejudice are necessarily a part </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">of </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">comprehension. There cannot be any self-cr<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">iticism by a neutral </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">critic. And, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">inversely, a critic cannot be
partisan. So, there is an </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">extremely
delicate point of </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">balance there between, on the one </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">hand, the conviction that pre-comprehension </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">and prejudgment are </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">a vital
pa<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">rt of comprehension of every object,
and, on the </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">other </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">hand
and at the same time, the critique of the illusions of the subject </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">which </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">one
may make with the aid of either </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">Marxism
or </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 36.25pt;">psychoanalysis.</span><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt; text-indent: 37.45pt;">But I myself don't
believe that a single critique of ideologies </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-indent: 37.45pt;">suffices, because </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">there is a truth in pre-comprehension. The
question would then be posed again </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">t</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">o </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">the critic of ideologies: </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">where do they stan</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">d themselves and who will do the </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">critique of
the </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">critic? Anyway, there is
a pre-comprehension, because there is no </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">comprehension without
pre-comprehension. </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">But
pre-comprehen</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">sion
is at the same </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">time prejudice. German is, however, very inter</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">esting from that point of view, </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">because there
is one word, <i>Vorurteil, </i></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">which
means<i> </i>prejudgment and prejudice. </span><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">Phenomenology of the critic is based
upon the dialectic </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">between
prejudice and </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">prejudgment.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-indent: 37.45pt;">Phenomenology only
concerns itself with clarifying and judging. To clarify a work </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">of </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">literature is
to understand its internal structure, how the different codes, the </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">different
subjacent structures hold the message of the work. To explain is to put it </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">in
touch with its author, its audience, its world in a triangular relationship
which </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">begins with discourse. Judging comes from another discipline which would
be </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">aesthetics. I wouldn’t like to make phenomenology an almighty science, not </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">everything is phenomenological.’</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-indent: 37.45pt;">The text above has been
edited for a shorter read. And the critic identified as </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;">a “he” by Ricoeur has been
transgendered to a “they” because it is 2023 after all. </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; text-indent: 37.45pt;"> </span><br /><br /><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; text-indent: 36.25pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Phenomenology
and Theory of Literature, an interview with Paul Ricoeur, by</span></i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; text-indent: 36.25pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Erik</i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -17.3pt; margin-right: -17.05pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm -17.05pt 0cm -17.3pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 36.25pt;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "euphemia ucas"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nakjavani</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d;"><i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Published, and partly written by - - Arabella Hutter von Arx</span></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DkXnsyXRI1U/WtuEWW96kcI/AAAAAAAABGw/qGSzVQ9fNGE7gZI6SLXpgOIzy9z2W3g8ACLcBGAs/s1600/Take_back_Net_notes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DkXnsyXRI1U/WtuEWW96kcI/AAAAAAAABGw/qGSzVQ9fNGE7gZI6SLXpgOIzy9z2W3g8ACLcBGAs/s400/Take_back_Net_notes.jpg" width="300" /></a>The most shocking item about <a href="https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/internet-hate/" target="_blank">this panel?</a> Yassmin Abdel-Magied was denied entry in the USA, the custom officials arguing that her visa was inadequate, a visa she had used in the past for similar purposes. She participated in the panel via Skype.<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/yassmin-abdel-magied" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/yassmin-abdel-magied" target="_blank">Yassmin is an activist and a writer</a>, she defends islam, and women, and muslim women. She has met with a lot of hostility in Australia, where she grew up, and has had to leave for her own safety and sanity. She spoke about how to survive harassement.<br />
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<u>Toll on mental state:</u><br />
Harassment takes a toll on menta<b>l</b> state. Victims need to choose their strategy (ignore, react, respond, etc). They need to self care. Get support from communities around, from other victims of harassment. They can protect themselves with barriers such as<br />
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+ staff that takes over social media<br />
+ friends that offer support<br />
+ spend more time in "real life", interacting with real people<br />
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Harassment also takes time and energy away from activists, writers, artists, undermining their activities and production.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian" target="_blank">Anita Sarkeesian</a> was the target of a sexist hate campaign of unbelievable proportions, when she tackled the sexism in gaming.<br />
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"The <b>gaming world </b>still hasn't done much to improve their misogynistic representations of women in particular."<br />
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Typical hate posts: <b>"she's a liar!"</b>, "she makes pots of money", <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/10/online_harassment_victims_of_revenge_porn_facebook_hate_speech_and_twitter.html" target="_blank">death and rape threats</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://porochistakhakpour.com/bio/" target="_blank">Porochista Khakpour</a> is a writer, journalist, editor of Iranian descent. She has been harassed both as a woman and a Muslim.<br />
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"Some w<b>riters have in their contract</b> the number of people that have linked with their social media platforms, and they can't quit them if they fall victime to harassment."<br />
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She lives in Harlem within a community of Muslims. Some of them have become less vocal on social media because of the psychological toll that takes, including suicidal frames of mind.<br />
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<u>Media and harassment:</u><br />
The media covering the harassment is often inadequately prepared. They want to sell a good story at whatever cost. They want to represent both sides of the stories. But when a crime is involved, there are no two sides of the story, just one. PEN is issuing guidelines for the media to help them cover the issue.<br />
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It's very difficult to get<b> the law</b> to intervene effectively, to sue successfully.<br />
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Harassment has increased under the current government. Revolution Books in Harlem have suffered a huge increase of attacks.<br />
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<u>Companies' attitude to harassment:</u><br />
Facebook, twitter and instagram and other social media platforms were created by <b>white American guys</b>. They had little awareness about harassment, racism, sexism, and didn't think through the potential for harassment. Initially the companies did very little in terms of controlling hate. They're now doing a bit better. Twitter used to have a staff of 4 concerned with safety issues. Now they have a whole department, safety counsel, etc.<br />
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They do not have to give their users freedom of speech, as they're private companies. They can, and do now, set rules: such word can't be used, such behavior is inacceptable.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interpretation of the notes above from <a href="https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/artists-take-street/" target="_blank">the PEN panel</a> Artists Take The Street:</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tania Brugera ran for president in CUBA! With, obviously, not a chance to win, but getting serious negative attention from government. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Bruguera" target="_blank">She's a performance/installation artist</a>. In one of her famous performances, she ate soil mixed with water and salt as a political act. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She made some compelling contributions to the panel. My favorite:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"COMPLEXITY IS THE BEST POLITICAL TOOL."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.watermillcenter.org/amy-khoshbin/" target="_blank">Amy Khoshbin</a> discussed how she reflected on talking to people who believe in the right to carry firearms, while she was in residence in a state where that was prevalent. The complexity statement was contributed to that discussion, as both sides of the American political divide hold on to simple slogans and beliefs. Only by adding complexity to the discussion, to artistic expression, can we hope to bridge that divide, so detrimental to our society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amy also discussed how she defines the "street" as a space for artists: public spaces, social media. Tania added that in Cuba, inside the house is a "street" space that escapes police attention. It is also a space of expression in the USA that is less monitored, less monetized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anne Carson did not say much. So here's an extract from <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/11/1-equals-1" target="_blank">a New Yorker text</a> that is still very poetical while fiction:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">"Her visit ends. Back at home, the newspapers, front-page photos of a train car in Europe jammed floor to door with escaped victims of a war zone farther south, people denied transit. Filthy families and souls in despair pressed flat against one another in the grip to survive, uncountable arms and legs, torn-open eyes, locked in the train all night waiting for dawn, a scene so much the antithesis of her own morning she cannot enter it. What sense it makes for these two mornings to exist side by side in the world where we live, should this be framed as a question, would not be answerable by philosophy or poetry or finance or by the shallows or the deeps of her own mind, she fears."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.getorganizedbk.org/" target="_blank">Get Organized Brooklyn</a> and <a href="https://refusefascism.org/" target="_blank">Refuse Fascism</a> are two organizations that were referred to during the meeting. That was the best take away from the panel for me, because I had hoped for more blueprints, more handbook tips, more practical examples. <a href="http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/projects/at-the-crossroads/word-on-the-street-spring-edition/index.aspx" target="_blank">Word on The Street</a> was one of the few projects described, it involves big names, and big money: not very relevant to the common guerillera artist sitting at the panel. I guess we will need to come up with our own invented processes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remark on the notes above: the woman gardening in the upper right corner is just going about her business. She pays no attention to the demonstrators around her. And why not? </span></i><br />
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When is it too much chaos to make for a show?</h3>
Hard to tell. I can't guarantee I did justice to the show. I was sitting too high up, why sell seats that will not let you enjoy fully the show? They were the only ones available. Plus, after a month of traveling through Europe, Paris, Venice, Lutry, Avignon, I went to see the Fiesta of Israel Galvan the night before my return to the United States. I was in between continents.<br />
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I liked the Fiesta concept, the end of a party when you're tired but you do not know if you want to leave, you're tired but you don't know if you want to sleep, when you've drunk all night, but you do not know if you're inebriate. Unfortunately, there seemed to be no organizing principle to the show, I only perceived noise. Noise when it came to sound, and to the staging. Discordant sounds. Small pieces of snippets of things, which seemed to happen by chance. Yes, in life, it's like that, but life happens to me, while there, I came to experience what the creator had to say, sitting on an uncomfortable seat that had cost me a round sum.<br />
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I had not come to see a classical flamenco show, the Avignon Festival is not the place. A few years ago, I attended a flamenco contest in Madrid, in a restaurant, an authentic experience of its own, even if not all dancers were gipsy.<br />
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The noise was so tiring, I lost patience and thought of something else. A little sketch to distract me, the courtyard of the Palace of the Popes is a marvel. The whole town is a marvel.<br />
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If there was some kind of plot, I did not pay enough attention to grasp it.<br />
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A woman sang a baroque tune admirably, while a man shouted druing the whole song in a strident voice. Throughout the show, every time he intervened, his grating voice ground my bones. At one point, he lay on his back, I hoped he was dead. But he got up. The last ten minutes of the show, Israel Galvan scraped his heels on a microphoned platform. I wanted to cry out, pity on us, pity on our ears! I would have left, as a number of spectators did throughout the show, but I was too curious to witness the reaction of the audience. The show seemed endless. Less than 2 hours in reality.<br />
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I wondered at one moment if it would continue until all the spectators had gone away, by snatches. A cool concept, a real end of the party where we are not sure why we decide to leave: fatigue, the prospect of rising the next day, the fray of pleasure, realization that probably nothing more exciting will happen.<br />
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Verdict from the public: I would say that about 2/3 was enthusiastic, ¼ booed, and the last portion (I will not calculate, this is a blog) either applauded weakly, or not at all. I belong to the last group. I did not boo, because I did not see in this creation dishonesty, a vice that I can not bear, nor pretentiousness. For me, it was a messy show, which had the potential to be successful if it had been more organized, more sequenced.<br />
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I loved :<br />
The gigantic shadows of the dancers projected by lamps on the floor on the gigantic walls of the Palace of the Popes.<br />
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The woman in standard flamenco dress who not only does not dance, but ends up being tortured. We can see classic flamenco crucified, but I also thought about the condition of women in flamenco culture. Some gypsies allow their women to go to the saddle in the toilet only when they are not present at home, by repulsion.<br />
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The new forms of theater, whether dash circus, dash dance, dash cabaret, have brought vigor and freshness to the stage stage, as in the show <a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.fr/2017/07/festival-davignon-great-tamer-at-fabrica.html" target="_blank">The Great Tamer.</a> During the Fiesta, I began to long for a story, any story, with a beginning, plot reversals, and an end, characters, suspense: what will happen next? Having limited patience and resilience, I was waiting for only one thing: the end.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p>Quand le chaos est-il tout intense pour constituter un spectacle?</o:p></span></h3>
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p>Je ne peux me targuer de connaître la réponse à cette question. Comme toujours, la subjectivité de chaque spectateur entre en jeu, je ne me sens pas l'autorité, mais j'ai des impressions, des réflexions.</o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p>J</o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">e ne sais pas si
j’ai pu faire justice au spectacle, je l'admets. J'étais trop loin, il serait dans l'intérêt du spectacle autant que du spectateur de ne pas vendre des sièges qui empêchent d'apprécier ce quise passe sur scène. De plus, après un mois de voyage en Europe, Paris,
Venise, Lutry, Avignon, je suis allée voir la Fiesta d’Israel Galvan le soir
avant mon retour aux Etats-Unis. Je suis entre deux eaux.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le concept de la
Fiesta me plaisait, une fin de fête quand on est fatigué mais qu’on ne sait
plus si on veut dormir, quand on a bu toute la nuit, mais on ne sait plus si on
est soûl. Malheureusement, je n'ai pas perçu de principe organisant, seulement du bruit. Au niveau du son, au
niveau de la mise en scène. Des sons discordants. Des petits bouts de bribes de
choses, qui semblaient arriver au hasard. Oui, dans la vie, c’est comme ça,
mais la vie m’arrive à moi, tandis que là, j’avais fait l’effort de me
déplacer, de m’assoir sur un siège peu confortable qui m’avait coûté une somme
rondelette. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Je n’étais pas
venue pour voir un spectacle de flamenco classique, le Festival d’Avignon n’est
pas le lieu. Il y a quelques années, j’ai assisté à un concours de flamenco à
Madrid, dans un restaurant, une expérience authentique dans son genre, même si
toutes les danseuses n’étaient pas gitanes. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le bruit était si
fatigant, que j’ai perdu patience et pensé à autre chose. Un petit croquis pour
me distraire, la cour du Palais des Papes est une merveille. Toute la ville est
une merveille. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">S’il y avait une trame narrative au spectacle, je n’ai plus prêté assez
attention pour la saisir.</span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Une femme
chantait à merveille un air baroque, alors qu’un homme criait tout du long d’une
voix stridente. Pendant tout le spectacle, chaque fois qu’il est intervenu, sa
voix grinçante m’irritait les os. A un moment, il s’est couché sur le dos,
j’espérais qu’il soit mort. Mais il s’est relevé. Les dix dernières minutes du
spectacle, Israel a raclé de ses talons une plateforme sonorisée. Je voulais
crier, pitié !<b> </b></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><b>Je serais partie, </b>comme un certain nombre de spectateurs tout
au long du spectacle, mais j’étais trop curieuse d’assister à la réaction du
public. Le spectacle n’en finissait pas. Je me suis demandé à un moment s’il
continuerait jusqu’à ce que tous les spectateurs s’en aillent, bribes par
bribes. Un concept assez cool, une vraie fin de fête où on ne sait pas trop
bien ce qui nous décide à partir, la fatigue, la perspective du lever le
lendemain, l’effilochement du plaisir, la réalisation que probablement rien
d’excitant n’arrivera plus.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><b>Verdict du
publi</b>c : je dirais qu’à peu près 2/3 était enthousiasmé, ¼ ont hué, et le
petit reste (je ne calculerai pas, ceci est un blog) a soit applaudi mollement
, soit pas du tout. Je fais partie du dernier groupe. Je n’ai pas hué, parce
que je n’ai pas vu dans cette création de malhonnêteté, un vice que je ne
supporte pas, ni de prétention. Pour moi, c’était un spectacle foiré, qui avait
la potentialité d’être réussi s’il avait été plus organisé, plus séquencé.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Les ombres
gigantesques des danseurs projetés par des lampes au sol sur les gigantesques
parois du Palais des Papes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">La femme en robe standard
flamenco qui non seulement ne danse pas, mais finit par être suppliciée. On
peut y voir le flamenco classique crucifié, mais j’ai aussi pensé à la
condition des femmes dans la culture flamenco. Certains gitans n’autorisent
leurs femmes à aller à selle dans les toilettes que lorsqu’ils ne sont présents
à la maison, par répulsion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><b>Les nouvelles
formes de théâtre</b> que ce soit tiret -cirque, tiret -danse, tiret -cabaret, sont venues
apporter de la vigueur et de la fraîcheur à la scène, comme dans le spectacle
<a href="http://bilingualblogbilingue.blogspot.com/2017/07/festival-davignon-great-tamer.html" target="_blank">The Great Tamer</a>. Pendant la Fiesta, je me suis prise à désirer une histoire,
avec un début, des<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>revirements, et
une fin, des personnages, du suspens : que va-t-il se passer maintenant ?
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</span>less<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span>randomly<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span>because this is<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span>not<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span>a<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span>review<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span>As<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thrilling</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">moment</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">show</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">begins</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">please</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">me</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">?
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will
the creators meet the spectators expectations? A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lying</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stage as the spectators walk in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">thought</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">great,
disarticulated</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">puppet</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gets</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">up</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">see</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">real</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">just</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bit</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gray</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">face</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stares
at</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spectators</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">take</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">their</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">place</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">removes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">standard</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gray</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">suit</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">then</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">underwear</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what a beautiful object</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fragile</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">turns
over</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">one</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rubber</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">plates</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cover</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gray</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scene</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">white</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">other</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">side</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lays</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">down</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">even</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">more</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fragile</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bearded</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arrives, also</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dressed</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in a standard grey suit</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lays</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cloth</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Until</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">then</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">have</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">been</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">seduced</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">much</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fabric</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">way</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">drapes
it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">over</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man,
it’s too self conscious</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bearded</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">leaves</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stage</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">another</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arrives</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">also</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dressed</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">standard</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">suit</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lifts</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rubber</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">plate</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">drops</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">draft</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lifts</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tissue</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">moves
it off the body</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">again</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">action</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">recurs</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">at</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">least</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dozen</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">times</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">men’s
actions</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">closer
and closer</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">together</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">until</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stage
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</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">understand</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">meaning</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">this</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scene</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">least</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">immediately</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reflect</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">put
together that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
man is submitted without recourse to the other two men’s actions</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Either</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">'</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cold</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
sheet is off, or</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he’s</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hot</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">'</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">covered</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">two</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">men</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">seem</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">care</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">about</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">welfare</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-etGZ8CX2034/WXM-RCYtziI/AAAAAAAABEM/FwCZ04baTWgykPJJ8FhZ1NdAK9-IFysbgCLcBGAs/s1600/TheGreatTamer_Papaiaoannou_cosmonauts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-etGZ8CX2034/WXM-RCYtziI/AAAAAAAABEM/FwCZ04baTWgykPJJ8FhZ1NdAK9-IFysbgCLcBGAs/s320/TheGreatTamer_Papaiaoannou_cosmonauts.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soon</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">there</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">six</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">men</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stage</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">two</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">women</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">take
a count</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">many</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">male</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">creators</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a human</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Women</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">work
as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">accessory</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">define</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">clothing</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">or</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">decor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">woman</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">emerges</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> astro</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naut</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">costume</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">against</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">odds</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">review</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">my</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hasty</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">judgment</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">now</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">has</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">six</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">men</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">three</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">women</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">'</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">better</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">could</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">have</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">six</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">women</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">four</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">men</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">example</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">though they</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">would</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wear</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">standard</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">suit</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">same</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">way</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">either</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">long</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">black</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dresses</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">or</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
alluring lingerie</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Music</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">famous</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">waltz</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">slowed down at least 10 fold</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Johannes
Strauss</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">n astronaut </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">appears</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scene</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hello</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2001 A Space Odyssey</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kubrick</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The show explores</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">humans as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">individuals</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, their</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> consciousness</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">theme</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">very</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">much</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">argued</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">humans</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">have</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">consciousness</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">themselves</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and offered as a metaphor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">novel.
While it is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">made</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">words</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">paper</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">novel</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">still</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">exists if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">one</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">burns</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">paper</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
argued back</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what
about</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">severed</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hand</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">still</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">alive and kicking, something science might
achieve soon</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">human</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dimitris</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Papaioannou</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">seems</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">want</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">answer</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">these</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">questions</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">woman</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">appears</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">advancing</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">legs</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that are too</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">big</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spider’s</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">illusion</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">created</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">two</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">men</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bent over who</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">walk</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">backwards</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while she rests</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">their</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bodies</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">leg</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">other</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">black</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">disappears</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">against</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">black</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">background</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">show</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, limbs </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">appear</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">here and there on the stage</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">detached</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">then</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">regrouping</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">form</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">human</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">being</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Witchcraft</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">magic</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">theater</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deus</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ex</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">machina</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Robert</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lepage</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">would</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">approve</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">The relationship between the body and the individual human being is explored. When is the body a human being, when does it stop being a human? Do the limbs scattered on stage add up to a person? The 17th century Puritans in Rembrandt's painting, reproduced by the dancers, thought it was fine dissecting a body, whereas it had been forbidden by the Catholic church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Papaioannou</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">began</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">career</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">making</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">comic</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">books</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">certainly</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">has</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">exceptional
control of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gestural</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">language</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">staging</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
bodies</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">their movements</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">across the stage shows</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">great</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">skill</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">great</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">talent</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">puts</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shoes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">seem</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lie</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stage</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he
picks them up</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">turn</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">out</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">have</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">roots</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">walks</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hands</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">feet</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">waving</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">their</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">roots</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">air</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">memorable
image</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pina</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bausch</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in the tradition of gestural</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">theater</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dance</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">-</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">theater</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">'</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">more</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">delectable not to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">put</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">label</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">same</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">position</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> / </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dancer</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> / </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">acrobat</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">evokes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">something</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">else</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">depending</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sequence</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">appears</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">room</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">example</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">swimmer</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">position</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">between</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">legs</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">another</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reminds</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">me</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">boat</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">prow</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">this</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">same</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">position</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">evokes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">floating</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">state</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">weightlessness</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Similarly</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arrows</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">thrown</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">man</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">who is protected</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by some</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rubber</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">plates,
these same arrows become ears of corn that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actors</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">glean</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tenderly</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beautiful</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scene</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visuals</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reference</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Botticelli’s
Venus</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michelangelo’s
David</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lesson</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dissection</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Rembrandt</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sometimes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">have</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">painful</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">impression</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">European</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">creators</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">have</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so much less</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">say</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">comparison</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Africans</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Asians</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">South</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Americans</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> resort to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">digging</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">up</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">references</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">our</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cultural</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">past</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actors</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">undress</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">get</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dressed</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a lot</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LOT</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fortunately</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">their</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">jackets are not double breasted</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">their</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">trousers</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">buttonholes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At points, it felt like the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">creator</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wondered</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">else</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">could</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">now</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tricks</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">came
up with</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ingenious</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">should have been gotten rid of, because</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">did</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">contribute</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">integrity</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">show</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Steven</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">advised</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">creator</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">must</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">be</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">able</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">kill</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">little</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">darlings</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">understand</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">action</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">or</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">effect</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">give</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">them</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">benefit</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">doubt</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">other</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">times</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">does</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">convince</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">me</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">during</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">performances I relish</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">look</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">forward</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
end</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from
being</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">prisoner</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spectator</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">-</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">creator</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">relationship</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">do</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the show? Help!</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actor</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">forgets</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his
role</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">begins</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cry</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stage</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">love it</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">other</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spectators</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">boo</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">whistle</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">actors</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">begin</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cry</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">end</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">comes</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">relief</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I do better</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">during</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">very</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">long</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shows</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which I have a preference for. Either
very long or very short</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That
longing</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">embarrasses</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">me</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">,
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">forced myself</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">go</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">theater</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">preferred</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">drink</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">glass</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wine</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">varnishing</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">my</span><span style="font-family: "arial hebrew";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">toenails, when in fact, I love going, and leaving with my mind, my soul changed by what I have experienced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Written and contributed by - - Arabella Hutter von Arx</span></div>
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