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survived right up to. thepresent day in the PunchandJudy plays and in
the clown (xxiii).Who is. Punch anyway Where does he come from
And how could soimpossible and. ridiculous a character have survived
the changes andturmoil of the passing. centuries The plain fact is that
nobody knows.Certainly the figure of Punch as. we know him today has
a direct linkwith the commedia dell'arte of the. seventeenth century but
thecharacter is far far older. The original. significance of Punch's
faceand figure his enormous nose and hump are. meaningless to
anaudience of modern times when perhaps it is not. customary
toassociate large noses and sexual potency or find hunchbacks.
mirthprovoking. But it is possible that Punch has lasted so long because
heso. blatantly cocks a snook at the restrictions of civilised society and
perhaps. every man at some time or other would like to flaunt thelaws
of society with. a comparable nonchalance removing those who gotin
his way pursuing his. amorous inclinations willy nilly anddefeating in
the end the devil. himself How often we say of alikeable rogue He
could get away with. murder. And Punchdoes or almost always does
and he is such a likeable. rogue and ofcourse he's only a puppet and
puppets can get away with. anything.HANGMAN Now prepare
yourself for execution.PUNCH What forMr. Punch.. A Roman mime
called Maccus was the original of Punch. Astatuette of this. buffon was
discovered in containing all thewellknown features of our. friend the
long nose and goggle eyes thehunch back and protruding breast.. The
most popular derivation of Punchand Judy is Pontius cum Judis (Matt..
xxvii. ) an old mystery playof Pontius Pilate and the Jews but the.
Italian policinello seems tobe from pollice a thumb (Tomthumb
figures). and our Punch is frompaunch. The drama or story of our
Punch and Judy is. attributed toSilvio Fiorillo an Italian comedian of
the seventeenth century.. Punchtriumphs over all the ills that flesh is
heir to. () Ennui in. theshape of a dog is overcome () Disease in the
disguise of a doctoris. kicked out () Death is beaten to death and () the
Devil himselfis. outwitted. Brewer's Phrase and FableThis compulsive
desire for immortality. for a definitive immortalityrevolves around a
strange madness the mania. for what has achievedits goal. The mania
for identity for. saturation completionrepletion. For perfection too the
lethal illusion of. the perfection.'Every ecstasy ultimately prefers to
take the path of. renunciationrather than sin against its own concept by
realizing it' (Adorno)To. the identitary individual the virtual clone there
corresponds ahorizontal. madness... a delirium of selfappropriation all
themonstrous variants of. identity not of the schizophrenic but of
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