Re: RAT There's nothing wrong with being elitist....

[BeSpecific@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/5/01 7:18:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
handycapt@yahoo.com writes:


> I guess I see what you mean, although I think the idea
> of a masterpiece is both the nature of striving and in
> the completion of a work, I think I see what you
> mean... 


For Handy: I think the considering of the result is what corrupts the 
process. I do not think the work is ever completed. Ever. Is the universe 
completed?
Perhaps you might say I sound esoteric, but I think this is the most natural 
thing in the world, it's not new age, it's as old as the hills.

And in regard to growth in a discipline/freedom-consistant workout, it's a 
practice. It's just washing dishes - it goes past the washing, it is in the 
doing, in the cleansing. hard to put this into words. It is in the everyday 
doing, that's why I do not differentiate my life from my doing theatre, it's 
all one of the same, but theatre is life without the garbage of life. It's 
more crystalline, more striving, more of a workout for a feeling of truth 
(life does not offer us many opportunities to develop ourselves as human 
beings - not much tasks out there training our will. our thought. our higher 
feelings - theatre does). The condensed format of theatre, the constant 
striving of logical, sequential, expediency of action, of honest 
communication with my partners, and the knowledge that human beings cannot 
create alone, is in my practice.
JMG
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