No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.
Christopher DurangWill this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over?
Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting
novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this
disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse
and worse and worse.
[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity.
Nowadays we have enough terror and pity in our own lives and so rather than going to the theatre looking for terror, we go looking for slight irritation. And rather than looking for the theatre to evoke pity, we look merely for a generalized sense of identification as in “Evita was a woman, I am a woman." Or “Sweeney Todd was a barber, I go to the hairdresser." Or “Fosca in Passion should have her moles removed, I know a good dermatologist." That sort of thing.
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