Re: RAT ticket expiration

[nick <nick@nickspix.com>]

At 12:19 AM 11/29/00 EST, DennisLMo@aol.com wrote:
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>what about poor brad's ticket.
>

One more Dimpled Chad.

The Will of the People has no real intent.  And the Seven Dramaturgs bandy
the Dimpled Chads amongst themselves as much for amusement as divination.  

The Seven Dramaturgs once assigned Brad to live in a Washington apple tree
for a year.  He survived and his vote was counted in that year's election.  

But the Seattle climate is temperate.  The winter cornfields of Iowa ask
for a harsher magic.  RAT was born there.  In one classroom Erik's
playwrights' workshop began with everyone placing their fingers at their
neck, finding the pulse.  Then saying the words "I am a playwright" in
rhythm with the heartbeat.  

But all scripts are Dimpled Chads.  And in another Iowa classroom the
preeminent dramaturg Charles Wain revealed to a select few the secret of
transubstantiation.  

In Theater we transmute cornflakes back into the original Iowa maize.
Shakespeare, Moliere, Sophocles, Ibsen are name brand breakfast cereal.
Nothing more, nothing less.

--nick