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Re: RAT citizens on the West Bank
Remember the parades in Washington after the Gulf War?
Dancing in the streets after the death of your "enemies" is revoltingly
common.
My tears flowed and I felt like vomitting. Almost more at a lack of suprise.
When you plant seeds, water and encourage them, it is hard to be suprised
when you discover that a tree has grown.
Emerging for coffee breaks from the theatre we you rush to the bar to see
the news, then go back into the dark room and continue building Q's, stunned
and distracted.
The planes started arriving here (Halifax NS Canada) and we continued Qing
between updates.
Arriving home to watch the news and fall into complete shock. Calling my
collaborators across the country and in Washington state to discuss what to
do about the play on terrorism we'd been working on for almost 2 years.
There are no metaphors anymore - nothing that terrorism can represent other
than dust and people and paper falling to the ground. Nothing than it can or
should represent than the horror of an unknown number of dead.
Fear of revenge and sailors saying "Just nuke 'em" on the CBC and that
George W. is in power.
There comes a point, when the horror is so great, that it is no longer a
question of who started it. Only that it must stop.
I can only think in fragments and moments of paralysis - that of course must
be overcome. My work has always been there to move me beyond the paralysis
caused be the constant and often unseen small inhumanities - now in the face
of this giant one - the work most continue.
Jacob Zimmer
artistic director-Small Wooden Shoe
Halifax NS CANADA
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