Brok*n Plurals.


How is it that the Symbolic must be a separate logical modality, not reducible to True or False, say, in a determinate context? Such as: running on a football field, between one blast of a whistle and the next, is only "flight" according to certain rules. Or: fear and sorrow for the audience of a tragedy (yet no one rises to prevent), for that room with its stone's-throw removal and for that hour only. --"Killing the king" on a wooden chessboard, even farther from reality. One then is forced to argue that what is true is the form, and what is false is the meaning. But let a transgressor take the play seriously--crossing from the arena (or temenos) into the audience or vice versa--either by plan or by spontaneous choice--this does not work either as act (which might well get handed over to the authorities) or aesthetic expression (what does it express that the stage itself could not speak?). In fact, it's a taboo. And this taboo shows that we are dealing with a separate realm, one that has to be protected from the encroachment of having to choose either truth or falsity.

(Indeed, insofar as "Reality TV" is not simply acting by non-actors, it signifies precisely the collapse of such boundaries, the absence of a viable society. --At the same time as serious artists are responding with hoaxes, pseudodocumentation, and genre crossing.)


   "Maguffin"

icy occult
by folk scaffold icy · build

flimsy stark sort · typical of torturing
glut skimp tsantsa · icy mask if off

dorp · historian
adorn · for icy cynic

obsidian cutbacks · birdtalk gloss
adjourn afar · fluid rippling Umbrist ash

"This makes me think that the era of classical music is going to end."


"In room 101, the man who works the latch on the rat cage is your god."


"Davenport speculated that J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbits had their origins in stories he heard from Allen Barnett about country folk in Barnett's home in central Kentucky....[This] seems no more unlikely, however, than Dumneazu's argument for the Appalachian roots of the Klezmer revival."