Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Right. Here is a ritual the spectator is being led through-we're guides. In Terminal we talked about being as well, but not quite in the same way. Terminal is really a meditation. It's our meditation of death as a political metaphor. We have come to the point of calling on the audience to meditate on the same themes. A meditation, it seems to me, can be very, very active, one can run, can jog and be meditating, and one can be lying flat on the ground and doing a yoga exercise and also be meditating. What seems...
Personal Obsessions. Despite such familiar dystopian details, Intensive Care has little in common with the average science-fiction novel, far more with social-commentary-as-critique such as Orwell's 1984 and Butler's Erewhon. It is rich in cultural context, metaphor and literary allusions. Like old European nursery rhymes, Miss Frame's dialogue disguises underlying horror with a lilting surface. Characters compulsively chase their dreams back to the nightmare garden where Miss Frame magically transforms personal obsessions into her climactic vision of general apocalypse...
...clue to an outstanding musical is one grand guiding metaphor. Company makes Manhattan a metaphor for marriage. Manhattan is an island of anguish and delight; so is marriage. Manhattan is an incessant roar of competitive egos; marriage is a subdued echo of the same. Manhattan is a meeting of strangers; marriage is a mating of strangers. Manhattan is a war of nerves; marriage is a ferocious pillow-fight battle of the sexes. The links do not stop there. The tempo of Manhattan is a kind of running fever; modern marriage runs a fever, and the partners are always taking...
...becomes harried, tense, abusive, combative. There is no business like the business of perpetuating business, which now even trades on-cynicism and malaise, feeds on the very psychological damage it inflicts. Protestant, capitalist America has made a desert of our language, depriving us of the will or instinet for metaphor, for symbol, for the invincible liberty of the perfect word...
...QUALITY of life is the purity of language. And this purity resides in poetic symbol. The symbol, as the animating, penetrating, harmonizing power of poetry, is the descendant of myth and metaphor, as the highest articulation of the imagination. The Greek gods, more generally man's native yearnings to articulate his life and planet, to keep them gentle, become our modern power of symbolization. Coleridge said that the poet brings the whole soul of man into activity, in a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order. Shelley, whom I quote unblushingly, wrote that all great poets...