you're all so lovely! yes you are!
even the unnamed individual who thought my screen-name was
so inadequate. (ahem, adthrawn; who bateman thought I was...).
well, i smell like bar, and am more than a tad tipsy, so...
off to the shower (and then the bed) with me,
before a morning (and day and a half) of long words and much tea.
but not before i say hello, thank you, and well met to all and sundry.
but especially to:
the birthday girl (before her swift departure);
the birthday boy (to whom i say death in the nile and ritual to romance);
to rainwolfkin, celeste, ttrent and leola (who were all even lovelier than I imagined);
to bateman (who was exactly as I imagined...);
to forkandles, someoneuk and hermes (who were all a surprise: ahoy!).
never before in my life, have so many entertaining pixels on my beloved screen, become as entertaining in the flesh.
but that could be the rum talking...
see you in hell,
mary
x
**** **** **** ****
After bateman gave me some grief about my tedious locquaciousness lastnight, I thought someone might enjoy some freshly baked, hot off the press, Addie-style pomposity... (the subject, as i bored celeste to death with, is the question of relationship between theatre and ritual as performative genres)...
As anthropologists, our interests lie not with performance merely as an artistic fete, but as a social phenomenon complete with causes, influences, and relations of a similarly social nature; we are not concerned merely with artistic taxonomies, but with what those phenomena imply. It follows, then, that there is aid to be found in Hymes recognition that the term performance treats overt behaviour as a realization, quite likely imperfect, of an underlying knowledge on the part of a speaker but [that] the emphasis is upon the constitution of a social event, quite likely with emergent properties (1975:13). This added dimension draws us away from the tautological trappings of excessive taxonomic endeavours, and reminds us to contextualize what Singer termed cultural performance (1955, 1968, cited in Laderman and Roseman 1996:2).
"the tautological trappings of excessive taxonomic endeavours"
oh! I love this shit.
hope you're all enjoying the sunshine, motherfuckers!
even the unnamed individual who thought my screen-name was
so inadequate. (ahem, adthrawn; who bateman thought I was...).
well, i smell like bar, and am more than a tad tipsy, so...
off to the shower (and then the bed) with me,
before a morning (and day and a half) of long words and much tea.
but not before i say hello, thank you, and well met to all and sundry.
but especially to:
the birthday girl (before her swift departure);
the birthday boy (to whom i say death in the nile and ritual to romance);
to rainwolfkin, celeste, ttrent and leola (who were all even lovelier than I imagined);
to bateman (who was exactly as I imagined...);
to forkandles, someoneuk and hermes (who were all a surprise: ahoy!).
never before in my life, have so many entertaining pixels on my beloved screen, become as entertaining in the flesh.
but that could be the rum talking...
see you in hell,
mary
x
**** **** **** ****
After bateman gave me some grief about my tedious locquaciousness lastnight, I thought someone might enjoy some freshly baked, hot off the press, Addie-style pomposity... (the subject, as i bored celeste to death with, is the question of relationship between theatre and ritual as performative genres)...
As anthropologists, our interests lie not with performance merely as an artistic fete, but as a social phenomenon complete with causes, influences, and relations of a similarly social nature; we are not concerned merely with artistic taxonomies, but with what those phenomena imply. It follows, then, that there is aid to be found in Hymes recognition that the term performance treats overt behaviour as a realization, quite likely imperfect, of an underlying knowledge on the part of a speaker but [that] the emphasis is upon the constitution of a social event, quite likely with emergent properties (1975:13). This added dimension draws us away from the tautological trappings of excessive taxonomic endeavours, and reminds us to contextualize what Singer termed cultural performance (1955, 1968, cited in Laderman and Roseman 1996:2).
"the tautological trappings of excessive taxonomic endeavours"
oh! I love this shit.
hope you're all enjoying the sunshine, motherfuckers!
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Oh, the ecstacy, the pain, the wonder. I weep.