Leonardo da Vinci Female Head paintingThomas Kinkade Victorian Christmas paintingThomas Kinkade Sunset at Riverbend Farm painting
, self-made man, returned to Bombay with the Prospero Players, to interpret the role of the Indian doctor in _The Millionairess_ by George Bernard Shaw. On stage, he tailored his voice to the requirements of the part, but those long-suppressed locutions, those discarded vowels and consonants, began to leak out of his mouth out of the theatre as well. His voice was betraying him; and he discovered his component parts to be capable of other treasons, too.
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A man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the Creator's role, according to one way of seeing things; he's unnatural, a blasphemer, an abomination of abominations. From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk: not all mutants survive. Or, consider him sociopolitically: most migrants learn, and can become disguises. Our own false descriptions to counter the falsehoods invented about us, concealing for reasons of security our secret selves.
A man who Invents himself needs someone to believe in him, to prove
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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