Re: RAT questions

[Laura Winton <fluffysingler@prodigy.net>]

"I laughed.  I wept.  I was pleasantly chagrined."

------Original Message------
From: "M.E. Dunn" <mego1911@gte.net>
To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
Sent: August 9, 2000 7:39:51 AM GMT
Subject: Re: RAT questions


nonsequitirs, oneliners, sound bites, "spin"....careful not to sprain your
chin
:o.)
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fluffysingler talking at cross purposes
"I really liked Titanic".

"Those poor kids.  So young.  So nauseous."
--Krusty the Klown Telethon for Motion Sickness

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 <mailto:francis@eyelumination.com> >
wrote:
> I still like Brecht:
>
> "Theater is a Weapon"
>
> Francis
>
>
> >At 10:03 AM 8/4/00 -0400, P1d2o3b@aol.com <mailto:P1d2o3b@aol.com> 
wrote:
> >In a message dated 8/4/00 8:57:37 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> >audiemccall@yahoo.com <mailto: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
<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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