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The Modern Development of Ersatz in the Arts - A conversation between Pompous and Facetia

Pompous:

"Oh God, no, not another shallow rhymer,

fitting each word to its neat little place.

Oh God, no, not another painterly composition

with planal directions going round and around or leading that way and this.

They did that in the past; get to the new.

Make sure the reader or viewer knows that the masterful

knows more than than the masterful lets t/h/r/o/u/g/h/ out.

Disdain extenuating weakenings caused by straining for clarity

or unnecessary exertions in expressions of cohesion.

Words, though plain, arouse astonished wonder by nonchalant impenetrable shufflings.

Be clued-in, be bold, be tough and show it when you sculpt the clay.

When shaped, use your trowel to scratch the surface, evoking even more obscurity.

Toss it off in broad strokes of masterful negligence.

Be above the miniscule.

By these means show in shadowy hints the profundity that winks beyond merely ordinary restrictions.

Break the barriers, fly the constructive. Those old shackles lie about the world.

Show you ain't no conforming sissy.

Display in impatient referenceless strokes

Your forceful awareness of the world as known."

 

Facetia:

"Oh?

A world which evidences no form and structure in living creatures;

no eons of effortful evolution;

Forests have no ecology, and laws of nature aren't for binding.

Mind never happened, spirit's a farce,

unions only expedient plottings.

Lessons of history describe the disruptive;

it's what you grab and who you club;

others are only take or be taken.

Show 'em who's boss,

stash it away,

it's dog eat dog until there's nothing.

Shake it all up and break it all up.

It's only entropy."

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roberta-schulberggoro
American
Published
Mar 21, 2010
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By Roberta SchulbergGoro

Written March 6, 2008

Revised 6-7-09

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