From: BFall <bfall-AT-toledolibrary.org>
Subject: RE: PUPT: Re: Secret Lives, revealed!! but not enough, perhaps Na
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:21:01 -0400


Vit & All:

I, personally, would be very interested in learning about the secret lives
of puppeteers.  Whenever I go to a conference I make a fashion report.
Teachers wear a lot of comfortable, "cute" outfits.  Librarians tend to
choose suits, especially navy blue.  Storytellers wear really "interesting"
things -- mismatched peasant clothes and unusual jewelry and hats.  At my
first P of A conference, I was surprised to see that, by and large,
puppeteers look like regular people. A friend of mine (not a puppeteer) said
it's because they're trying to blend into the background.  Hmmm . . .

Note to anyone offended by any of the above:  It's just my observation.

Brid
Librarian, Storyteller, Puppeteer
Toledo, OH


-----Original Message-----
From: VITPUPPET-AT-aol.com
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: 4/19/02 5:02 AM
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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