Back to AtD Cyprian again

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 07:12:47 CDT 2012


where is my annotated wizard of oz when I need it...but with P we feel
we are not in Kansas any longer or in or on or above or below anyplace
on the mappable Earth, and as as any major dude knows... you can run
but you can not hide from what you are or what iz inside of you...but
a standard for writers is to makes the connection of plot and
setting...but in modern and post-modern picaro figures, the poor
slough meal slow mazle wanders like a Jew in a Dublin pub where his
perigrinations, though a man without a nation, a peri grin, is looking
fro clues in all the wrong faces...and even the mirror and the sea
confounds...so we see characters running from and running to a
paradox. as an easy start, in the american lands, for dixon and mason
it is the West, sure, but it is more like Oz, so allegorical settings
will not hold a center in the turning and turning and the rough beast
born will remain a what



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