Dramatists should reexamine the philosophical foundations of drama and determine what makes drama a unique medium.See for yourself -- the man could write...
"Having acquired a most splendid walking stick,
we felt some regret at the necessity of occasionally
washing our hands so as not to soil the knob (of the
walking stick). To avoid this, we conceived the idea of
protecting the superior part of the said stick with a
small sheath of fine leather, but this was very
unattractive and prevented us from admiring the beautiful
knob. We prided ourself on the glorious ingenuity of the
following improvement: the sheath was enlarged and made
to fit the hand, whose contours it followed, so that it
wrapped itself around the stick's knob only when our hand
deigned to grip the latter protuberance. Having already
familiarized ourself, through the discovery of carpet
slippers, with the concept of duality ... we constructed
two identical contrivances, which appeared to us to merit
the name of gloves." "Barabbas, slated to race, was scratched. Pilate, the starter, pulling out his clepsydra or water clock, an operation which wet his hands unless he had merely spit on them -- Pilate gave the send-off. Jesus got away to a good start..." -- "The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race" |