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...letters of a word to make them seem like initials; reverse the natural order of syntax in a phrase; don't worry if the meaning gets lost in the process as long as the result looks uncommon. Following these simple guidelines, Cornelia Ravenal rearranged that hackneyed phrase, "the original sin," into the bogus poetry of "SIN...the original." It's a title that pokes fun at cliche by blowing it up, flaunting it, the way pop art does, as though it were profound. It works on the principle that the inverse of any cliche may well be a joke, since...
...Sin..the Original--Loeb...
...SIN...the original exposes (the poster's word, not ours) what really happened in the Garden of Eden. According to Cornelia Ravenal's '79 new musical, the first play by a Radcliffe undergraduate ever to be produced at the Loeb, the big dating service in the sky made a mistake with Adam and Eve. While Eve thinks she was sent to earth to meet her mate. Adam thinks he was promised a maid. With such a beginning, an irresistibly slimy serpent, and a chorus of nine animals misnamed by Adam, complications of course, develop. Set to Ravenal's jazz-rock...
...Sin...the Original--Loeb...
...Sin...the Original--Loeb...