To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:50:16 GMT
Subject: [Puptcrit] Are liberal areas really scarier?


I grew up in a very conservtive small town where people worred about dust on their neighbor's coffee table. That copuld get pretty scary.

In Riverside CA, not a liberal outpost (it was rural and a center for citrus groves and conservative once upon a time) there was a huge TO-DO about Punch & Judy and a teacher dragged her whole class out of the auditorium with much ensuing chaos. Needless to say, she had NOT read the historical handout before the show. Self righteousness knows neither left nor right politically---you can find frauds everywhere. Ted Haggard, Oral Roberts, The Idaho Senator, Santorum, Karl Rov's drug problem, and the Governor from Illinois for examples.

ALAN COOK 


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From: puppetmaster-AT-puppetswithpizazz.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:18 AM
To: Puptcrit
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Adapting Grimm's Fairy Tales...

I LOVE that quote! In "The Uses of Enchantment" Bettleheim says that the purpose of the fairy tale is to teach children not that there are boogie men out there (which children know instinctively), but that, even though you are small, weak and disadvantaged, if you are honest, helpful and use the wits God gave you, you can and will overcome and live happily ever after. And I think I will move to Louisiana!  Nancy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Schaefer <anne-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:50:12 
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Adapting Grimm's Fairy Tales...




On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:24 PM, HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com wrote:

> How grateful I am every day to live in backwards Louisiana, where  
> my  puppets
> get killed, kill other puppets, and if called for, dance up and   
> down on
> their bodies or toss them into the air. How lovely to live in a   
> state in which
> monsters can eat peasants and crocodiles can eat sheep. I can put   
> demons or
> angels in my plays, and no one cares.
> Sigh,
> Alice

A bit ago, I came across the following quote from C.S. Lewis:

=EF=BF=BDThose who say that children must not be frightened may mean two  
things. They may mean (1) that we must not do anything likely to give  
the child those haunting, disabling, pathological fears against which  
ordinary courage is helpless: in fact, phobias. His mind must, if  
possible, be kept clear of things he can=EF=BF=BDt bear to think of. Or they  
may mean (2) that we must try to keep out of his mind the knowledge  
that he is born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure,  
heroism and cowardice, good and evil. If they mean the first I agree  
with them: but not if they mean the second. The second would indeed be  
to give children a false impression and feed them on escapism in the  
bad sense. There is something ludicrous in the idea of so educating a  
generation which is born to the =EF=BF=BD atomic bomb. Since it is so likely  
that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of  
brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their  
destiny not brighter but darker=EF=BF=BD. - Clive S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds:  
Essays and Stories (San Diego: Harvest Books, 2002), 31.

I haven't read the book (yet), but I found the above to be a very  
poetic, and it mirrors some of my own thoughts on the subject.

And I'm envious that you enjoy such artistic freedom.  If I have to  
tap dance around "But is it scary?" one more time, I think I might  
snap :-)

- Anne
>
>
> In a message dated 1/27/2009 3:11:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> puppetmaster-AT-puppetswithpizazz.com writes:
>
> Mark my  words: the more liberal the area, the greater your chance  
> of getting
> hammered  if there is anything scary or violent.  Nancy
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