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... a particular way of moving ...our inner universe towards the world of tangible events ... Eugenio Barba

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Sunday, July 21, 2002
> New York Metro - New York Magazine Homeland Insecurity MICHAEL WOLFF

"We know the danger of bad narrative. We write it and then find the world getting made in its image. Everybody, writers and politicians and operatives, starts to pick and choose the information bits to support the story line: There are lethal forces in this world moving inexorably and with remarkable agility and with a depth of resources and an amoral, sociopathic dedication and near-supernatural resilience, in our direction. We and everything we love will die unless we transform ourselves in the face of it. The narrative then becomes the conventional wisdom and the basis for national policy (politicians will be elected because of their obeisance to it). While the narrative is thrown together and of poor quality and obviously bogus in so many respects, at least it's ours. It lets us feel like we're in control."
viaTELLIO - Teaching ourselves in a post that invites students to connect the narrative to the classroom . . . nice! . . .


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" ... neither a watcher nor a dreamer ... does not reflect life,but doesn't escape or withdraw either: swallows it. And the imagination won't stop it's swallowed everything ... to a world where nothing is outside the human imaginaion. - Northrop Frye.

A picture named manray.gifThoughts, wrote Nietzsche, are shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, and simpler than these. And the written word, it strikes me, is but a shadow of our thoughts.

Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees."


"In everyday life 'if' is an evasion, in the theatre 'if' is the truth. In everyday life 'if' is a fiction, in the theatre 'if' is an experiment." Peter Brook -- The Empty Space



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