He went on to say: The fact that there is a project in Oregon set to translate all of Shakespeare into contemporary English only shows me my laments about the state of literacy have been valid–yet I do not object entirely to modernizations. I do object, though, that we pretend that Shakespeare is unintelligible without […]

Yashujiro Ozu [an extension of my more monologic imaginative interplay with experience]

I despise the notion of authenticity, especially in the ways it has been used, been corrupted, been manipulated, managed, marketed in marketing and not anything like an organic marketplace. The most Japanese director? What kind of question is that? I do not know what that question, or any question similar to it, means. What could it […]

Re-contextualization; or, Clutching at Cliche Constructed Straws [fiction]

X: Stop telling me I’m fighting backwards because I critique the boobery of our contemporaneity . You are contempo-centric to a fault. Y: But you do fight backwards. Every single day you lament the state of things as they are against what they were and should have become but have not, you fight […]

A Fool’s Errand [to be added to the collection of pieces that amount to The Life and Opinions of Thomas Sarebbononnato]

Prologue A man not so much unlike another man I met when I was only a little younger than I am today, as if this day were not so unlike any other day in my life, each day of my life . . . what is it that I think I want to say […]

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE AND DEAR BLACK PEOPLE

Dear White People and Dear Black People please stop trying to drag me into your narrow minded, semi-literate, systematically under educated, neo-liberal and neo-conservative American Protestant River. And I will deal with my own Northern, Urban, Catholic, Euro-ethnic Labor/Civil Servant boobs myself.

Gun Violence Has Victims

From The Amsterdam News: “According to the Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence, in the United States, gun violence is the leading cause of death among Black children. Black children are 10 times more likely to be killed in a gun homicide than white children. And Black men make up 52% of all gun […]

Power is Power is Power Always Acting Powerfully

Originally posted on Now Politics: the Political Opinions of Thomas Sarebbenonnato:
Power is power in America, of Power, by Power, for Power. As Power is everywhere in the world, as it has been everywhere in the world for all time. The costumes change. With regime or with time or with place––which country? We could ask.…

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