Theatre/theater?

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 25 18:19:56 CST 2000


--- Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > In Enzian's "perhaps it's theater, but they SEEM
> > no longer to be Allies" isn't there the
> > suggestion that Enzian fears the rivalry between
> > the Americans and the Russians to be a trick to
> > confuse him?
> 
> Yes, I'll go along with that. He fears, his
> suspects, but he is not certain. What he fears
> is  "theatre" or the "War" and not theater,
>but he's not certain.

But don't forget the bigger picture:  The War is an
overarching entity.  Remember the War's evensong?  The
King who sends all those posers to death in his place?
 It's ALL War (perhaps).  Nations, Shmations!  War
(not Love) is All There Is.

David Morris


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