Published by Nemonymous
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2 Thanks From: | G. S. Carnivals (08-27-2013), Spotbowserfido2 (08-27-2013) |
#1
By
Odalisque
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06-20-2008
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Re: Puppet Love
I used to love Punch & Judy as a child. No doubt it warped my young mind.
Alas (unless my eye skipped over something) your story seems to omit perhaps the cosiest Punch & Judy character of them all -- the hangman. No show was complete without Punch persauding the hangman to put his own head in the noose (to demonstrate how to do it) -- and then hanging the hangman. That's the way to do it! |
#2
By
Nemonymous
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06-20-2008
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Re: Puppet Love
I missed a trick there, Ody. The gibbet as a cross...? Or maybe that is already inferred. Including the hangman may have been one image too far.
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#3
By
The Black Ferris
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06-20-2008
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Re: Puppet Love
"He had kissed her flat nose, as if to say something he couldn’t otherwise say. (And, at a seamless moment in the puppet proceedings, he lost control of his own body as it dashed into the midst of the audience, intent on throwing his own daughter into the crocodile’s clacking jaws.)
I don't understand what is happening here. Has he become violent in a crowd of people or is it a sort of game, like tickling? (He prayed that his dear dead wife had not, after all, been so cruelly crucified upon the cross of their daughter’s birth.) I guess I don't understand what this means either. It had been their only child.... and they’d named the baby Judith. (lovely and twisty) I liked this rather a lot, just give me, maybe, two more sentences. |
#4
By
Nemonymous
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06-20-2008
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Re: Puppet Love
Thanks, Black Ferris. I'll try to fathom it out. His wife died in giving birth to his daughter and he found himself - like a puppet without control or with some evil control from elsewhere - going berserk, intent on harming his daughter. But he managed to control himself through love (or God?). Oh, maybe, that's it. Not entirely sure, now.
Meanwhile I just posted an old puppetish thing of mine that was once published in print: http://weirdmonger.blogdrive.com/archive/279.html: XXXX Another here: http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2004/07/dorothy-alone.html |
Last edited by Nemonymous; 06-20-2008 at 03:19 PM..
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#6
By
Nemonymous
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08-24-2013
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Re: Puppet Love
Used as a coda for my real-time review of THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MISTER PUNCH (Egaeus Press 2013), just completed here: The Transfiguration of Mister Punch | CONE ZERO
The above cross: a new Trinity: God, Man and Puppet, three as well as one. |
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