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...most of the second act, the words “I see everything”—words that the voice of a bodiless German guard repeats to Max and Horst—remain projected onto a black screen elevated above the back of the stage. This phrase and its staging are a fitting choice for a scene in which the two characters bare themselves psychologically, both to the audience and to each other...
More compelling are the case studies from history and literature presented in "Acute Intoxication-Literary Reports." Grinspoon includes everything from Theophile de Gaultier's observations of "a multitude of bodiless heads like cherubims, with such comical expressions" to Alan Ginsburg's musings on the benefits of snibidish, all vigorously footnoted...
...ancient image of authority, a girl can be satisfied only with the heroic, the desperate, the extreme. A fatherless girl thinks all things possible and nothing safe. I don't want that for Linda. I had Cyprian, but he fathered me as if we were both bodiless, for our connection had nothing in it of the flesh. But I will sleep with Leo, Linda will know that. And Leo will -know that Linda is an ordinary child, a child of flesh and bone...
Somehow what's wrong with Harvard's graduate education is conveyed in the bodiless atmosphere of the Widener stacks, Garner suggested. "The thing you're here for is largely the library. The big privilege is to have a book shelf on your stall. You commune more with books than with people. Garner, who is a native of Oklahoma and speaks with the slightest trace of a southern accent, laughed. "But at least I got to see the spring through my Widener window, even if I wasn't a part of it," he said...
RUMMAGING THROUGH my mother's cherished boxes of her children's art-works recently, I discovered a painting I did in sixth grade entitled "Suffragettes on Parade." Forty withered hags--obvious spinsters--bodiless under long black dresses and billowing bloomers, are pictured storming down a street wielding axes and coalmining picks...