Shriek-jump Foofwa d'Imobilite, Kira Sedlock, Azure Carter marionquette string-pulling jump down turn around http://www.alansondheim.org/marionquette.mp4 It has already been stated that witches can afflict men with every kind of physical infirmity; therefore it can be taken as a general rule that the various verbal or practical remedies which can be applied in the case of these infirmities which we have just been discussing are equally applic- able to all other infirmities, such as epilepsy or leprosy, for example. (Kramer and Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum, 1484) Are witches nothing but sped-up humans? Last night I had a dream; E. and I were writing a tragedy when suddenly I appeared as a stand-up comic before an audience. I said, "I'm glad to see you all have your foreheads!" - At which point I woke up, laughing and laughing. Humans are slowed-down witches. When a human laughs, whole years pass. It is a known fact in the animal kingdom: Only humans have foreheads. "The furnace of his skin exhibited a leprous appearance, and his eyes, wild glowing and deep sunk in his head, glaring dismally all around, 'Let me measure the moon,' said he, ''tis full of marrow, faugh! but O this torrent of lobsters--stop them, they curl the Heavens. Bottle up the war in a cornfield, and put my vote in hell. Hold me--the room is in flames and the castle totters, what a serpent is the minister, he has stung mankind--I am a crocodile.' He now caught hold of the bed cloathes and giving a dreadful shriek, EXPIRED." (William Beckford, The Elegant Enthusiast, or, Modern Novel Writing, 1796, quoted in Archibald Bolling Shepperson, The Novel in Motley, A History of the Burlesque Novel in English, 1936) _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
