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propagate, a wild black snake, try not to hate, the figure eight, etc

So, re: propaganda:

With Requium for a Dream, I'm not so sure that propaganda applies,
because the story isn't forced.  One event follows from the next in a
reasonable way.  I haven't seen Reefer Madness; I only know that it's
shelved in the comedy section of my library, and that it wasn't
originally intended that way.  It was intended to show that pot turns you
crazy, immediately.  That's propaganda.  R for a D has a unity of action
which makes it work.  The word for all that emotional/spiritual leading
Kevin was talking about is psychagogia, the leading of the soul (which
follows to katharsis, which is not a purging--as the marxists would
sometimes have it--so much as a directing of the soul outward etc etc etc
etc etc).  The soul/spirit/mind/whatyouwill is led by the play through
the situation, and so achieves a greater understanding on some level, and
perhaps an enlargement.  (Bill Mallonee: "I always feel bigger inside
after hearing Over the Rhine.")  Romeo and Juliet comes down to a point:
put away your differences and love one another, or else bad things could
happen to those close to you.  But R and J has unity of action, too.  We
start with a situation and believable things follow.  Oedipus is written
in a time when the play really was supposed to have civic virtue, I
think, as a meditation on what happens when the standard of the community
are messed up.  Yet it isn't exactly strained, either.  One event follows
reasonably from the next.  (Okay, maybe not every king would gouge out
his eyes at the end: but here the play moves into a sort of symbolism
that is clear and poignant.)  

If you wanna read a poem that is seriously and divinely musical, look up
The Preludes by T. S. Eliot.  Or a lot of anything by Eliot.  Or Shelley.
 Or Marvell.

Poe is musical like a calliope.  bellsbellsbellsbells.

Justin Timberlake is musical like one of those little monkeys with
cymbals and a battery pack.  Yesterday in my class I compared him to
Buffalo Bill, from the Cummings poem.

Cummings:

Buffalo Bill's
Defunt

Johnson:

Justin Timberlake's
Defunct


Oh, how the innocence passes away yadda yadda clapclapclap.  Hi.

That is all,

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