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...stand on end), begging the question of why the hell we would need Calasso to point them out. But this is not to suggest that this is a thesis-driven sort of book. No, no and no. The sections veer wildly from one topic to another (“Incipit Parodia,” “Musings of a Serial Killer,” and “Meters Are the Cattle of the Gods” are all chapters, and their content is almost as unrelated as their headings). The only thing unifying the loose strands seems...
...come, when Henry is handed the list of "the names of those their nobles that lie dead." As he recites the long roster, name by name, a score of men gradually come on stage each wearing a ghostly white mask splotched with fresh blood. Finally the King intones the incipit of a Te Deum, and the ghostly choir picks it up in unison and, in the manner of the Living Theatre, moves down-stage to face the audience in a long row, humming and swaying from left to right--an inspired fusion of the quick and the dead. The effect...
Circum mediam incipit...
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