Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

toassociate large noses and sexual potency or find detchbacks.
mirthprovoking. But it is possible that Punch has lasted so long because
heso. blatantly cocks a snook at the restrictions of civilised societyand
perhaps. every man at some time or other would like to flaunt thelaws
of society with. a comparable nonchalance removing those who gotin
his way pursuing his. amorous inclinations willy nilly anddefeating in
the end the devil. himself How often we say of alikeable rogue He
could get away with. murder. And Punchdoes or almost always does
and he is such a likeable. rogue and ofcourse he's only a puppet and
puppets can get away with. anything.HANGMAN Now prepare
yourself for execution.PUNCH What forMr. Punch.. A Roman mime
called Maccus was the original of Punch. Astatuette of this. buffon was
discovered in containing all thewellknown features of our. friend the
long nose and goggle eyes thedetch back and protruding breast.. The
most popular derivation of Punchand Judy is Pontius cum Judis (Matt..
xxvii. ) an old mystery playof Pontius Pilate and the Jews but the.
Italian policinello seems tobe from pollice a thumb (Tomthumb
figures). and our Punch is frompaunch. The drama or story of our
Punch and Judy is. attributed toSilvio Fiorillo an Italian comedian of
the seventeenth century.. Punchtriumphs over all the ills that flesh is
heir to. () Ennui in. theshape of a dog is overcome () Disease in the
disguise of a doctoris. kicked out () Death is beaten to death and () the
Devil himselfis. outwitted. Brewer's Phrase and FableThis compulsive
desire for immortality. for a definitive immortalityrevolves around a
strange madness the mania. for what has achievedits goal. The mania
for identity for. saturation completionrepletion. For perfection too the
lethal illusion of. the perfection.'Every ecstasy ultimately prefers to
take the path of. renunciationrather than sin against its own concept by
realizing it' (Adorno)To. the identitary individual the virtual clone there
corresponds ahorizontal. madness... a delirium of selfappropriation all
themonstrous variants of. identity not of the schizophrenic but of
theisophrenic without shadow. other transcendence or image that ofthe
mental isomorph the autist who. has as it were devoured hisdouble and
absorbed his twin brother (being a. twin is conversely aform of autism
deux). Identitary ipsomaniacal. isophrenic madness.Our monsters are
all manic autists. As products of. chimericalcombination... deprived of
hereditary otherness... they have no. otherdestiny than desperately to
seek out an otherness by eliating allthe. Others one by
one.PunchandJudy show a traditional puppetshow in which. Punch
isshown nagging beating and finally killing a succession. ofcharacters
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