“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Comedy versus Tragedy
When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy.
When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called Fawlty Towers.
Discuss.
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Or the Trump administration.
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