4/25/11
Boom.
explode < Lat. explodere meaning "to drive out by clapping."
What an odd form of exile!
(Medieval court, rural Europe. JUDGE, cloaked in black robes stands to deliver his verdict; a rather meek and filthy BEGGAR hunches before him obediently,)
JUDGE: Do you have anything to say for yourself, sir?
BEGGAR: Please Your...
JUDGE: Silence! (pause) Well then, due to the heinousness of your crime, the Court hereby and forthwith sentences you to... explodere!
BEGGAR: No Your Honor, Please not that!
JUDGE: (forcefully) Exlodere! Bring in the Band of Clappers!
(Enter several men and women, all expressionless, clapping, who walk up to the BEGGAR, forcing him from the courtroom and out into the street.)
4/2/11
Horrible
"a horror picture really should have moments where you kind of rest up and laugh, even it's a nervous laugh, and then go on to another horror."
-Samuel Z. Arkoff (B-movie monster mogul)
A poem really should have moments where you kind of rest up and laugh, even if it's a nervous laugh, and then go on to another horror. This probably could be said of any work of art. It is the thing that keeps the work from "flat-lining."
In the same way that all horror all the time at some point ceases to be horrible, if it's all beautiful, then none of it's beautiful. Or: if it's all this, then it isn't this at all
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