http://libcom.org/files/puppets.pdf
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
> He's got a lot to say about puppets in his book, "Possibilities".
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>> There's no way to provide a snippet. The chapter is called "On the
>> Phenomenology of Giant Puppets."
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>> I recommend the chapter and the book.
>>
>> Joanna
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> One look at the puppet giant faces of Iraq grieving women as a trio was a
> stark reminder at the first anti-war demo in SF against the war in Iraq
> that drew thousands. The Venice masks of the Renaissance are extraordinary
> in their surrealistic and psychological powers which were illlustrated in
> Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
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> In my theory of everything. this particularly art form, the mask has the
> psychological power to disturb the psyche to mythological levels once
> thought only to be the privilage of `primative' peoples. That observation
> is simply not true.
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> We desparately need Wall Street characters and especially politicans and
> their bankers to be codified in the Venetian school of masks. The
> characters you see in that tradition were bankers, politicians, charlatans
> of extraordinary power, extraordinary evil of every sort. Here is the Doge
> of Venice:
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> Under the silk brocade coat was a empty body of raw political rationalism
> that had no human content, that was to say Machiavelli's Prince. And the
> elders of the Duma? Essentially a 300 member Mafia of aristocrats the likes
> of which Don Corleone never imagined---until the very end of Godfather III
> when the Vatican elimenated the Corleones as the potential bankers of the
> Church. Dreams of the Medici died. It was all supposed to be fiction.
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> The entire Southern Europe from Spain to Italy to Greece and most of North
> Africa hasn't change in deep substance since the Roman Empire
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