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There is no doubt that this sensual, mythical poem-play is extremely challenging not only by virtue of its grand themes but also because of its schizoid scenes and violent characters. Baal is the name of a fertility god, but this play, full of images of rotting food and flesh, charts the progression of an over-ripe and destructive appetite. The bohemian poet, Baal (Daniel Sussner '00), is an enormously charismatic man who desires to eat, fuck, experience and be everything, ultimately even death itself. He is forever yearning for the infinite "purple sky" and the "dark river...
...truth about his identity in his teens, he was overjoyed, sought ou t reverse surgery and is now happily married. TIME's Christine Gorman points out, though, that the range of human sexual identity is far more complex than simple male versus female, nor is it bound by flesh. The main lesson to be learned from John is that people cannot be told how to feel about their sexuality. While most of us are irrevocably grounded in a clear sexual identity, some boys will always feel like girls, and vice versa, regardless of what society or plastic surgeons...
...comments that one viewer of the next piece, a tangled-looking work dubbed Exhalation, was quick to pick up on its "definite influence of Dr. Seuss-aesthetic." Several good-sized hollow glass letters dangle between the ceiling and a podium, suspended by clear fishing wire and connected by flesh-colored rubber tubing. The letters spell out a hidden message (sorry, you'll have to see it for yourself), and a small fluttering feather balances precariously at the end of the final letter, thanks to the stream of air being pumped through the interconnected parts of the sculpture...
...chance at your life. Every parent tries to endow his child with the wisdom of his own hard-earned experience. Here is the opportunity to pour all the accumulated learning of your life back into a new you, to raise your exact biological double, to guide your very flesh through a second existence...
This is the ultimate nightmare scenario. The Pharaohs built their pyramids, the Emperors built Rome, and Napoleon built his Arc de Triomphe--all, at least in part, to make the permanence of stone compensate for the impermanence of the flesh. But big buildings and big tombs would be a poor second choice if the flesh could be made to go on forever. Now, it appears...