12/20/2023 0 Comments Hyper bullet blindfoldNovel:UNDERMIND, published by Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink Press "Last Request/One More Time!"(10 minute play, 2004) "A Really Big Shoe", "Cigarette Break", "A Slippery Customer" (ten minute plays, 2007) Before very long somebody's bound to point out-on the bright side-that hurricanes, typhoons and tsunamis are a growth industry.ĮMPTY BOWL, FIREWATCHER'S WAGES, I FORESEE TROUBLE (2008) But what do you finally make of somebody who writes that concern for the rainforests goes back to the seventies and yet the rainforests-where uncontrollable fires range, hectares disappear to clearcutting every day, and erosion and desertification marches on apace-are 'doing ok'. The most apocalyptic projections are written in dry, matter-of-fact language by concerned scientists. Most of the reasons for ignoring climate change have to do with political and media fawning over the wealthy, who stand to gain in the short term and have, as Mailer once noted, a 'psychopathic disregard for the future'. I had a look at one which suggested Greta Thunberg was the victim of child abuse in that she'd been inflected with apocalyptic terrors whose origin was politcal and ideological rather than scientific-which is more nearly the reverse of the truth. If there's anything encouraging about the current protests, it's that they're more widespread and harder to ignore, a fact underlined by the dismissive and patronizing 'reviews' of Greta Thunberg's activism (which is since Climate Strike Day the activism of a multitude). My neice Ula posted this on Facebook, a reminder that young activists like Greta Thunberg have been around quite a while as the ecological crisis deepens. So I naturally wondered-apart from the obvious fact that 'empyrean air' is considerably richer than mere 'air'-whether I was remembering this from somewhere else entirely, so I Googled Shakespeare empyrean and made a discovery I wouldn't have stumbled on in a million years by mere chance: Not sure how the tongue of a chameleon would handle mouthfuls and mouthfuls of fire and light, maybe they're insulated I don't think Y-hw-h would tolerate 'em chomping up acres and acres of the true and ultimate heavenly paradise (unless in sections where it's overgrown and could use a little culling). b : the true and ultimate heavenly paradise. Definition of empyrean (Entry 2 of 2) 1a : the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light. You cannot feed capons so.”īut just now I've consulted two texts of Hamlet (a director who does one or two productions a year and was considering a script of mine is doing a Variorum Hamlet, thought I'd have another look) and in both versions there is not a trace of 'empyrean' (which would be rare air indeed for a chameleon, even up a high tree:Įmpyrean. So I've often quoted a line from Shakespeare thus (even once in a play of mine, as an actor's allusion: “Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish.
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