Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

of the vital illusion not of the 'worlds beyond' butof the illusion of.
appearances of the forms of becoming of the veiland indeed all the.
veils which happily protects us from theobjective illusion the illusion.
of truth... Needless to say thistransvaluation... has not taken place.
except precisely in theopposite sense... A transvaluation folding in
upon. itself towards anondifferentiation a nondistinction of values
itself. fetishized inan aestethics of plurality of difference etc. Not any.
longer afetishization of divinities great ideas or grand narratives but.
ofminimal differences and particles... This dedifferentiation of
thehuman. and the inhuman this reabsorption of the metaphor of life
intothe metastasis. of survival is effected by a progressive reduction
tothe lowest common. denominator.The Crocodile was a late arrival in
the story and has now been. animportant character for about a hundred
years. First he was a dragonwhich. eventually became a crocodile.
Perhaps the idea of a crocodilebecame firmly. established after children
had been frightened by theCrocodile in Peter. Pan. The Ghost is seen
occasionally still.Originally the Ghost of Judy. it is now just any old
ghost. Who was Pulcinella or as he is sometimes. called Pollicinella
orPulicinella His role was primarily that of a servant. as indeed wasthat
of Harlequin and he was obviously a comedian. He. wore anartificial
nose potbelly and hump all calculated to make. theaudience laugh and
he was the mixture of jollity and cruelty wit. andstupidity just as Punch
is today.The PunchTrickster concept embodies. notions of
antiestablishmentarianism buffoonery and shamanism. that
reflectattributes of the creative individual functioning in an.
authoritarianethos the late s bucking the system inverting.
valuesAssuming an ubuique persona and balancing precariously on a.
monocycle PunchTrickster pedals blindly into an unknown future
fendingoff. unseen adversaries with an ineffectual weapon. The
sculpture is. aconcretisation of a state of mind or an existential
predicament. It. isconcerned with delusions of grandeur and
vulnerability paradox. andpathos.The Trickster as buffoon acts out a
quixotic farce in ironic. fashion.Ubu Roi a precursor of the theater of
cruelty the absurd.. PunchUbuPuncheon. Pernille og Mr. NelsonJUDY
Where's the babyPUNCH (In a. melancholy tone.) I have had a
misfortune the child wasso terrible cross I. throwed it out of the
window.It is generally thought that the obsession with. survival is a
logicalconsequence of life and the right to life. But most of. the time
thetwo things are contradictory. Life is not a question of. rights
andwhat follows on from life is not survival which is artificial.
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