Stories Are Different Every Time You Tell Them - They Allow So Many Possible Narratives.
The Sophists' Paradoxical Talk Pieces And Their Public Debates Were Entertainment In 5th Century Greece. And In That World, Socrates Was An Entertainer.
While I Don't Script And I Don't Use Other Performers, I Think My Taste For Underlying Precision Gives Me Something In Common With Allan And George Brecht.
When My Mother Left Her Second Husband, She Wrote Her Autobiography And Presented It To Him For His Approval.
Disney Made A Fortune Out Of Inventing The Businessman's Idea Of The Imaginary As The Contradictory Of The Businessman's Idea Of The Real.
While I've Had A Great Distaste For What's Usually Called Song In Modern Poetry Or For What's Usually Called Music, I Really Don't Think Of Speech As So Far From Song.
A Myth Is The Name Of A Terrible Lie Told By A Smelly Little Brown Person To A Man In A White Suit With A Pair Of Binoculars.
For Several Centuries What Has Passed For Song In Literary Circles Was Any Text That Looked Like The Lyrics For A Commonplace Melodic Setting.
I'm Standing Up Thinking. Anybody Who Wants To Listen Is Welcome. If Not, I'm Happy To See Them Go.
It's Hard Being A Hostage In Somebody Else's Mouth - Or A Character In Somebody Else's Novel.
