Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 05:02:33 EDT
Subject: PUPT: Re: Secret Lives, revealed!! but not enough, perhaps National Enquirer


could do justice to the topic.

Now that it's been established that the belowmentioned book doesn't fill the 
need, someone else should take up the task of revealing the secret lives.  
And not only of puppets but also of the puppeteers.  Have you noticed most of 
them are really weird?  I mean, the fairly accurate portrait in "Being John 
Malkovitch" was still much too gentle.  There are a few crime and horror 
books and films that properly describe homicidal urges lurking within 
puppeteers (in particular ventriloquists) AND their wards and their nefarious 
connections with aliens, alienists and asylums, but someone should already 
unmask the whole bunch of them with their dirty little secrets.  Sometime 
their are little, but for some of the Vermont persuasion, humongous.

Vit Horejs
from Prague until May 15.

P.S.: The local breed of the weird one are having a nifty 3-day festival here 
(Cultural center U Kastanu) next weekend.


In a message dated 4/19/2002 5:53:22 AM Central Europe Daylight Time, 
skactw-AT-pop.tiac.net writes:

> Hey folks,

>   Just after I posted my reply to Preston concerning "The Secret
>  Lives of Puppets," I opened up this week's edition of the Village Voice
>  and, lo and behold, there in the Education Supplement was an interview with
>  the book's author, Victoria Nelson. Turns out her grad school studies were
>  in Lit Crit and Polynesian Archaology, and her previous book was on Hawaii.
>  Ms. Nelson is interviewed by Toni Schlesinger (whose regular Voice collumn
>  deals with people's apartments.) At the end of the interview, Toni cuts to
>  the chase and asks the question,"So, what is the secret life of puppets?"
>  Ms. Nelson's reply is as follows:
>  
>   They are our own secret life that we know so little about, our own
>  human secret life that we displaced in our machines. It is our own magic
>  coming back at us that we don't recognize and it's our own souls and..."
>  
>  
>   So, there you have it. I saved everyone $29 plus shipping (Sorry Ray.)
>  
>   Stephen
>  


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