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Re: non musical looping

Title: Re: non musical looping
This is another way of having the last word. In fellini's Satyricon a group of potential inheritors are horrified to find that if they want to share in the extremely wealthy poets fortune they have to, by order of the will, attend a great roman banquet with his body as the main course. The other requirement is that they have to consume the cadaver at one sitting. That's what I call loopy - poetic, too.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Cino
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: non musical looping

"I knew it!  I just knew that that was going to be the last word!"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: non musical looping

At 5:48 PM -0500 2/3/03, Cino wrote:

John Barth

My favorite Barthism is from "Giles Goat Boy": The proctologist who wrote a dissertation titled "Riddle of the Sphincters."


Eugene Ionesco

A little-known Ionesco play, for three characters, is "Saluations." Three gentlemen meet on a street corner and greet each other:

Good morning gentlemen.
Good morning gentlemen.
Good morning gentlemen.
Great to see you. How are things going?
Fine thanks. And you?
Nicely. And you?
Nastily. And you?
Warmly. And you?
Coldly. And you?

And so on, for five minutes. The interaction devolves into an ostinato "and you...and you..." as each of the three gentlemen gets to take a solo "garibaldically...gallinaceously...galliphobically..." etc.

I adapted Saluations for three interlocked 16mm projectors as my undergraduate thesis at MIT.
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