Teatro grottesco by thomas ligotti5/12/2023 Firstly, it recalls the Allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic, which also relates the eye opening exit of a cave secondly, it alludes to that origin myth of moral sentiment, the Fall of Man in Genesis. This is a parable resonating with two archetypical tales of Western culture. The piece begins with a fable of a stone age hunter who, as he leaves his cave at night, is stricken by pity for his prey and has a fatal existential crisis. For it is just this piece that apparently has driven Walpole quite out of his senses. Z sighs deeply into his tin mug of steaming yak milk tea and allows himself reverie. It was widely praised, he thought, at least by my peers and my lecture hall seats filled in such a lovely fashion! Among its earliest airings was a little essay he privately referred to as his ‘calling card’ and simply adored and preened over called ‘The Last Messiah’. Following some years as a lawyer and judge, he had a revelatory encounter with the plays of Ibsen and reentered university to attack “the ever burning question of what it means to be human.” The answer he reached was an original brand of existentialist thought, which, unlike the more optimistic views of Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, concluded in a minor key. Born in the arctic city of Trumbo, in Norway, Zapffe was a luminous stylist and wit, whose Law examination paper written in rhyming verse remains on display at the University of Boote. He thinks back upon his own biography as a way to pass the time while they await the return of the sherpa.
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