01 May 2009

On being : single, double, triple and trouble

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bLOGOS/HA HA loves the wisdom of the The Goons.

A favourite insight, often recalled, is their description of Caesar as projection-space with troubled interior :

Greenslade: Caesar, Caesar.
Caesar:
Oh, it's Stomachus Grossus!
Greenslade:
Caesar, there is an angry rabble outside, we have their leader captive.
Caesar:
Is he bound?
Greenslade:
Of his health I know not, sir.
Caesar:
Bring him hither, sir...
Bloodnok: Ohh! Take your hands off me! You want to catch something? Ahh! So you're Julius Caesar, ehh?

Moriaritus: Caesar is all things to all men.
Bloodnok: Oh, it must be hell in there!

from "The Histories of Pliny the Elder"
by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
sourced from here





The transformation was complete,
the others had taken over :
we the self possessed