(Continued from yesterday evening)
On Max Bialystock's Spider-Man Godspell Seminar—
"… for surrealism to be entertaining
onstage, it must be shaped into
some kind of satisfying form."
— Charles Isherwood
in today's New York Times
(RSS: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:37:17 GMT)
From Fritz Leiber's 1959 story "Damnation Morning" —
She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming
implement that looked by quick turns to me
like a knife, a gun, a slim sceptre, and a delicate
branding iron— especially when its tip sprouted
an eight-limbed star of silver wire.
“The test?” I faltered, staring at the thing.
“Yes, to determine whether you can live
in the fourth dimension or only die in it.”