Channeling Beckett, Ionesco, Stoppard, Pinter, Camus, Genet, Albee et al

[kid a]

Hillary's conference call and back and forth with her bloggers reminded me of the coin scene in Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

The heroes drift helplessly toward their inevitable demise, and rather than shaping events, they pass the time playing witty word games and pondering their predicament with complete incomprehension of their situation.

It is classic theater of the absurd.

[anigbrowl]

1. Berthold Brecht called. He wants his ambiguity back.

:-)

[K Gardner]

2. Good analogy :-)

[dailykoff]

3. Ha.

Good one. And you know what? You're absolutely right. The Hillary campaign is straight out the Stalinist fifties and just about as absurd.

[kid a]

5. and the absudity continues...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6008259&mesg_id=6008259

[Fovea]

4. I see America as like

Genet's "The Balcony"
So much seeming and fantasy.
So little real power.