Now me, I don't really know what's going on over there. I don't know if the Second Coming is upon us or what. But at the rate they're going, I guess now's as good a time as any to confess a few sins I've been meaning to talk to the Almighty about.
All these bombs and missiles and twisted scraps of metal...kinda makes you wonder how a person can put on tight white star pants and sing to a large, tipsy audience seeking refuge from the worries of the day. I guess that's sort of what theatre is about, huh?
In other news, things did not turn out well for our ever-hopeful friend, Jude Fawley. Yes, folks, I finally made it to the other side of Thomas Hardy's classic tale of futility and broken dreams, Jude the Obscure. And what a tale it was. Long before Arthur Miller attempted to shock the world with the notion that great, sweeping tragedy isn't exclusive to ancient rulers of Greece, but also to your average working-class man, Hardy had already done it.
All Jude ever wanted was to be a preacher. All he ever wanted was to be heard. All he ever wanted was to make a difference in a world that just didn't give a crap.
I guess the thing to take away from Jude's little tale is that, no matter how much you wish, no matter how hard you try, sometimes the world just says No. Then you get consumption and die.
Irony
It's kind of like what the Duchess tells Alice. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
The moral of today's headlines, for example, would probably be, "Don't mess with Israel or you'll get your ass handed to you with extreme prejudice."
5 comments:
Fret not, Forky. Yes, everything's going nuts over there. But it doesn't signal a cataclysmic end to the world. It's just a bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad series of things. Pray for the people.
"Can you hear the bells, Jude? They aren't even tolling for you in death! Ha! You got served, Judey! Guess you won't be taking a sad song and making it better after all!"
- excerpt from Bibb Leo's Paraphrased Jude the Obscure
FORKY!! You forgot the fires in California and the Tornadoes in New York, and the missles in North Korea and the Nukes in Iran....still doesn't say anything about the 2nd Coming. Maybe we'll end the world before God with all the Bombs and wars, that would make his job a bit easier.
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