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Re: RAT questions



"pithy" perhaps? Or is a one-liner to be pitied?


--- Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, geez.  I like all kinds of pity one-liners.
> 
> "Love is a battlefield"
> --Pat Benatar
> 
> "Hell is for children."
> -- again, Pat Benetar
> 
> "I think I ate a bug."
> --Marlon Brando
> 
> Perhaps we can take all these aphorisms and string
> them into a play.  Sans an willful intent of course.
> 
> 
> --- francis <francis@eyelumination.com> wrote:
> > I still like Brecht:
> > 
> > "Theater is a Weapon"
> > 
> > Francis
> > 
> > 
> > >At 10:03 AM 8/4/00 -0400, P1d2o3b@aol.com wrote:
> > >In a message dated 8/4/00 8:57:37 AM Eastern
> > Daylight Time,
> > >audiemccall@yahoo.com writes:
> > >
> > >>> To assume that theatre must "effect change" (a
> > >>>  seductive assumption, admittedly, but
> > nevertheless
> > >>>  dubious) and then throw up one's hands and
> say
> > it's "a
> > >>>  crap shoot" what kind of change you're
> > effecting seems
> > > >>  disingenuous and callous.
> > >>> 
> > >
> > >>also stupic
> > >
> > >QUESTION #4  Is the above "stupic" spelling due
> to
> > callousness,
> > >disingenuousness, or stupidity?
> > >
> > >Theater for me is an act of faith.  A time and
> > place of vulnerability, not
> > >willful intent.
> > >
> > >The moral trepidation of Abraham carrying his
> only
> > son Isaac up Mount Moriah
> > >for the sacrafice.
> > >
> > >see Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
> > >
> > >http://home.pacbell.net/newcov/sk/kw6a.htm
> > >
> > >Keats spoke of mystery, doubt, uncertainty.
> > >
> > >But Artaud probably spoke most precisely: "To act
> > is to kill."
> > 
> 
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