Word: repeatability
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...Those who cannot remember the past,” warned one-time Harvard professor George Santayana, “are condemned to repeat...
...goes" is a phrase from Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. It's an expression the Tralfamadorians - a race of four-dimensional aliens - repeat whenever somebody or something dies. It expresses a certain airy resignation about the inevitability of death. Vonnegut - who died Wednesday night at the age of 84 from injuries suffered in a fall - had the Tralfamadorian attitude. "I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was 12 or 14," he told Rolling Stone last year. "So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them...
...trash cans, not interviewing him. That casual slander reminded me of an e-mail I once received from a reader who asserted his view of a black woman's proper place. "I have floors that need to be mopped," he said, and--more crudely than I can dare repeat--a sexual organ that needed to be serviced. He would have been happier, apparently, if I were...
...free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce, who was explicit about his goals: in Bruce's words, to repeat "'niggerniggernigger' until the word [didn't] mean anything anymore...
Videt also amplifies the more abstract aspects of the play, often to great effect. For instance, people around Lucie often repeat a few gestures mechanistically, leaving the main characters as the only ones who really move and see. On the other hand, this directorial choice can also result in a lack of clarity: When Jean relates an anecdote about Lucie going fishing in a booming, portentous voice that—if read on the page—would seem much more lighthearted, it seems like the acting has more to do with creating a general mood and less...