What? Beauty what? Come hither? Beautalicious Nico teen queen of all tomorrow's Parcheesi? (The game of Indian royalty). What does it mean to fuck Beauty? Who/What is beauty? By fuck we mean, I assume, disregard, but Beauty? Skin deep or the essential ideal? For the essence is the tool for communicating with the depth of the skin. The background becomes the foreground and you can't tell the two apart, but both have always been there. Gestalt tomorrow's parties, and what costumes shall the pour girl where? I would say in the nearest empty bucket, she'll get over it and crawl out in the morning. "Respect the boundaries of your hallucination," said Mr. Lies to Harper in Angels in America, the play we read part one of at play-reading night tonight. Wise words. But fuck beauty? I'm sure it makes sense to you, but here you externalized the contents of your head so I'm commenting this comment.
I meant it as a double-entendre. But that advice about hallucinations is valid, very very valid. I can't get Lou Reed's voice out of my head, or the droning strings from that song.
When I was in Raleigh a few weeks back, I picked up Cat's Cradle from Tamara's bookshelf and read a little bit. Tuesday, Big Boi's new album came out, featuring a duet with a musician who calls himself Vonnegut. Just last night, someone at the aforementioned play-reading night noticed the quote from The 100th Monkey that I have taped to my wall, asked what the 100th Monkey was about, and when I tried to explain someone said, "Hey, that's like Ice 9. From Vonnegut's Catch 22." She was immediately corrected by two people, of course Vonnegut didn't write Catch 22, but she had the Ice 9 bit right from Cat's Cradle. At some point, I asked her to pick out some music to play from my computer (or my records, but she's a few years younger and might not have known what those were) and she put on The Love Below, you know, by Big Boi's other half (not Vonnegut). I did an I Ching reading for this guy and that put him in a very thoughtful state of mind and during "Prototype" it seemed appropriate to tell him to go into the closet until the end of
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