Observations upon the mammals of Alsace (7) - Revolution

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Comment by Marie Wintzer on October 5, 2011 at 3:24am

I need more bandages, Dw. I came to ask for permission to take some more from your stash.

Well, never mind, I'll just steal it.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 25, 2011 at 4:52pm

Then CB is putty in our hands. You need not know history. WE will tell you our version of history, which is of course the OFFICIAL version of history. And this is all you shall need to know of 1789 and the aftermath!

Comment by Marie Wintzer on September 24, 2011 at 1:04am

Oh yes I almost forgot Dw's human monkey phase. I think it all started there...

The revolution, yes, we do learn the dates and phrases and how marie Antoinette liked her brioche toasted, but everything is fast forgotten. History has never been my forte. I blame it on the boring teachers. They also vaguely told us about the american revolution but I wasn't listening. I preferred the civil war because I saw Gone With the Wind when I was young and now it will always have that glamorous side. Ridiculous.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 23, 2011 at 10:44am

Right, you recall Dw once supported himself as professional lab rat, a human monkey of sorts. Oh, and I hear the experiments were done in Korea, a place and time when all these nagging rules about lab ethics did not apply. There's no adventure in being a human test subject any more. I wonder in French schools if you learn all the dates and phases of the Revolution. I think your revolution is better-known here than our own.

Comment by Marie Wintzer on September 23, 2011 at 3:03am

I guess CB revealing that she once worked in a monkey lab has locked her forever in that association with the Reign of Terror. But Dw's role in that monkey business is no less of a mystery. And never mentioned!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 23, 2011 at 2:04am

I do hope so, CB. Perhaps this time it will be more difficult. I've already used up the begging and pleading approach.

 

And will you ever clear your name of the old Reign of Terror and The Grigster? No matter how you protest, DW holds fast to his old suspicions. What better way to express it than as Marat? Although I am beginning to think DW's view of himself as martyr has become a compulsion. His CB was once a quest to attain something greater and better and Dante was the model, as you will recall. But now she has become something else for him. Did we talk about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? Maybe it is more along those lines now. And what more of Alsace is there to chronicle in this epic? We have had the Ice Age, the Age of Faith, the invention of surrealism, the French Revolution. It must be leading to something. But what?

 

Yes - always the monkeys. Perhaps DW-Marat had covered his wall with illustrations of monkeys hoping to discover....

Comment by Marie Wintzer on September 23, 2011 at 1:49am

Un traité de Durban, excellente idée mon cher! Le traité d'Alsace fonctionne bien, un traité de Durban devrait fonctionner aussi. Ramenez-la s'il vous plait!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 23, 2011 at 1:38am

Mon cher, nous avons une crise. J'ai besoin d'un traité de Durban. La grande soeur a une SNIT. Elle a marché loinencore. Je dois la ramener.

Comment by Marie Wintzer on September 23, 2011 at 12:54am

I can't get used to that profile picture :-)

Dw martyred again! :-)) I like how he visits the various chapters of History. And yes I recognized the famous manifesto in his hands and on the wall with the monkeys. And MarAT :-)))

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 22, 2011 at 11:42pm

It's a replay of past events set in the era of the French Revolution. Dark wall is saying he started the revolution to free Alsace from Antonism, which is connected to the corrupt aristocracy. His "manifesto" is the old GA-Ray Johnson-Antonism poster. But Dw believes he was betrayed by Marie Antonette who has always had a split allegiance to Antonism and Dw. As in TOXIS Adventure, Fluxus can be a force for good. And thus Dw is martyred in his bath - notice his CB tattoo.

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