Word: poe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: The ghosts of Poe and Bram Stoker breathe new life into an old bel canto war-horse...
...paradox creeps through literary history like a specter: Edgar Allen Poe and Earnest Hemingway killed themselves. Jack Keroauc drank himself to death. My case is not so extreme, either in talent or depression. But the urge to write, and the emotions that fuel good writing, stem from a deep sensitivity to the world outside. A writer's conscience is like skin so sensitive that the air hurts. You've got to dance with the dark side, my brother always tells...
...paradox creeps through literary history like a specter: Edgar Allen Poe and Ernest Hemingway killed themselves. Jack Keroauc drank himself to death. My case is not so extreme, either in talent or depression. But the urge to write, and the emotions that fuel good writing, stem from a deep sensitivity to the world outside. A writer's conscience is like skin so sensitive that the air hurts. You've got to dance with the dark side, my brother always tells...
...added nuance to the music and the acting. The set transports us to another world. We sail to the Phantom's lair with Christine and feel the ominous pressures of the darkness seeping out of the Phantom. The New Year's Eve masquerade in Act Two, is reminiscent of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." The Phantom, clad in an angry, bloody red, exacts a shaken silence from the revelers. Like the plague in Poe's tale, the Phantom lurks at every twist and turn...
Then there was Edgar Allan Poe. Magritte used him repeatedly. The Domain of Arnheim, Magritte's image of a vast, cold Alpine wall seen through the broken window of a bourgeois living room, with shards of glass on the floor that still carry bits of the sublime view on them, is the title of Poe's 1846 tale about a superrich American landscape connoisseur who creates a Xanadu for himself. "Let us imagine," says Poe's hero, "a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture...