6.5.04
Nothing exists in a vacuum. You remake a television show, you change a man into a woman, re-invent the character entirely but keep the name. The change becomes overpowering. Everything is seen in relation to this feminisation. Negative traits that the original man did not posses are interpreted as anti-feminist. Positive traits the original man did not posses become slurs on the original man.
It becomes impossible to judge the character on her own merits because she is inextricably bound up with her namesake.
So, nothing exists in a vacuum.
Quentin Tarantino makes films that borrow stylistically, verbally, thematically from spaghetti westerns and bad kung fu films. He lifts scenes and speeches from obscure movies.
But we don't complain about the end result, and anyway, what's so bad about collage?
Perhaps total originality is over-rated. Impossible, even. Everything is inspired by something. Everything you read or watch or hear will make you think of something else and colour your views. Why not acknowledge it?
So here. Some found poetry. I found it in the opening paragraph and a half of an atrocious freebie booklet on alien abductions, written by a man of dubious sanity, and given away with a magazine I found in my living room. (Possibly left there by the aliens. Remains to be seen.)
Recut, but not rewritten, interesting, but not, perhaps, good:
Testament to the Truth
The western word
'God'
is actually a translation
of the Hebrew
'Elohim'
as written in the Old Testament.
However,
the real translation of the word
Elohim
may well shed some light
on the true nature
and meaning
of what we perceive
as God
his motives
and future plans for humanity
as indeed his real identity.
the etymology
or root
of the word
Elohim
as written in the original Bible
is
literally
'those who came from the sky'.
It becomes impossible to judge the character on her own merits because she is inextricably bound up with her namesake.
So, nothing exists in a vacuum.
Quentin Tarantino makes films that borrow stylistically, verbally, thematically from spaghetti westerns and bad kung fu films. He lifts scenes and speeches from obscure movies.
But we don't complain about the end result, and anyway, what's so bad about collage?
Perhaps total originality is over-rated. Impossible, even. Everything is inspired by something. Everything you read or watch or hear will make you think of something else and colour your views. Why not acknowledge it?
So here. Some found poetry. I found it in the opening paragraph and a half of an atrocious freebie booklet on alien abductions, written by a man of dubious sanity, and given away with a magazine I found in my living room. (Possibly left there by the aliens. Remains to be seen.)
Recut, but not rewritten, interesting, but not, perhaps, good:
Testament to the Truth
The western word
'God'
is actually a translation
of the Hebrew
'Elohim'
as written in the Old Testament.
However,
the real translation of the word
Elohim
may well shed some light
on the true nature
and meaning
of what we perceive
as God
his motives
and future plans for humanity
as indeed his real identity.
the etymology
or root
of the word
Elohim
as written in the original Bible
is
literally
'those who came from the sky'.
