November 17, 2005

• All the King’s Men

  (See also Time and
  All the King’s Horses.)

  LEAR:

  Now you better do some thinkin’
      then you’ll find
  You
  got the only daddy
      that’ll walk the line.

  

  FOOL:

  I’ve always been different
      with one foot over the
  line….
  I’ve always been crazy
      but it’s kept me
  from going insane.

  For related material, see

  The Line: Notes on Iconology,

  and last night’s winner of

  

  the National Book Award
  for nonfiction, i.e.,
  “all hard facts, all reality, with
  no illusions and no fantasy.”  

  A Story That Works “There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe; there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering their tales and always seeking the three miracles — that minds should really touch, or that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story, or (perhaps the same thing) that there should be a story that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with no illusions and no fantasy; and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing, mortal me.” – Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“

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