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playmobil / brecht

The first in a series of great moments in literature acted out by my daughter's * Playmobil guys.

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Bertolt Brecht, “Changing the Wheel”

I sit by the roadside
The driver changes the wheel.
I do not like the place I have come from.
I do not like the place I am going to.
Why with impatience do I
Watch him changing the wheel.

* I say "my daughter's," but others in my household might well disagree. I am, after all, taking pictures of them acting out moments mentioned in my manuscript in progress. There's more to say - I really do feel like my time playing with this stuff when I was a kid might have had a major effect on my aesthetic and political bearings, the dissertation I wrote, the books that I am trying to write now. But that's for another post.... The next one - spoiler warning - will do the montage sequence ("comices agricoles") from Bovary...

By CR | January 10, 2007 in Boredom | Permalink

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Well we're certainly looking forward to it, with or without the sea of lurkers and mediocre fish.

Posted by: Gilbert Gottfried | Jan 10, 2007 2:05:47 AM

I should have called the post "choking hazard."

Posted by: CR | Jan 10, 2007 2:23:59 AM

Not at all.

Posted by: Gilbert Gottfried | Jan 10, 2007 2:57:50 AM

Gilbert,

I like your blog. Would you like to contribute to LS?

Posted by: CR | Jan 10, 2007 9:59:14 AM

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