drama

Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly __atter_ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When __nowledge of the Self_ is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) __goism_ and __y-ness_ will remain.

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters__n worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn__ remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.

The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance _ and lyric is the daily appearance, the commonplace dress, of reason. It shows us the rational. It makes the epic pattern human. It's the footprint on the pathway. In the epic-lyric the individual and particular are no longer isolated but are placed in a historical, social, human pattern. That's why there's a political way of cutting bread or wearing shoes.

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

It was held that the six great arts _ visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature _ form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre apes the profound truth that we are extended beings who yet can only exist in the present.

Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Success starts with a Vision

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

You can__ save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don__ appreciate your interfering with the drama they__e created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don__ want to change.

Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised.

Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from war? And businesses, most of them except military and oil ones, most of them have a vested interest in peace and prosperity. You cannot sell a house to a war refugee living in a tent, can you? Really hard tto sell an iPhone to a shattered victim. Businesses and corporatoons run this country. So yuou have to approach them with logic. Emotional appeals to the hippies of this world will not change minds. Stick to logic.- Shane Gibson, candidate for Governor, THE PLATOS ASCENSION BRIEF.

Let__ de-bunk some of this, shall we? Myth 1_ Kings and Queens are divine beings _ rubbish. Kings and queens of old were murdering bastards who ruled with a rod of iron. Myth 2 _ the rich prosper out of godliness _ more rubbish. They gained their wealth by royal patronage and taxing and stealing from the masses. Myth 3 - the poor are poor because they__e depraved _ yet more rubbish. They__e poor because of their naivety and childlike belief in, oh yes, Kings and Queens, the Church and the order of things. Finally, Myth 4 - women are evil and deliberately seductive _ the biggest nonsense of all. Women are sexually attractive to men because they are the opposite sex to men; it__ not hard to see, is it? It__ the same for every species on the planet, you can see it in any mating ritual on the Discovery channel but this truth has been reversed and buried under the eternal lie fostered upon us by the church. That__ what the bible has achieved and that__ why our society is divided and divided again. That__ why we are never working as one, because religion was designed to divide and rule the masses,_ she broke off and looked deliberately round the room, __ut the big question is, for what purpose and by whom?

Even the world__ greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.