This process is non-linear and has gaps.
Theater is a fabulous place to explore what futurists call predictive modeling, every scenario has been worked through in world theater.
On a meta-level, every book is epistolary, right? A reaching out for connection, a message in a bottle.
Embodiment demands hybridity.
This world we live in is terribly brutal to animals, to humans, to beings of all kinds, isn’t it? Why pussy foot around?
We’re all guests of our time.
Think of the accounting of any meaningful legacy, all of the lives that uplift our collective spirit have one thing in common: they are defined not by what they had, but by what they gave.
The discomfort of a beetle on its back, swinging its legs is not the kind of discomfort I am looking for. My discomfort is more like writing on the edge of what’s known, and what’s been said, and what’s ok to say.
Maybe both the nuns and the hoaxers are trying to connect, to form a community, through vastly different means. I know which I prefer, but perhaps what drives them isn’t really that different.
I understood that the whole point is to unmake this monumental quality…to ask yourself, for example, what kind of monument this event needs. Deserves.