A light without shadow, an emotion without reserve
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess. Here we find a grandiloquence which must have been that of ancient theatres. […] Wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. – Roland Barthes, ‘Mythologies’. 1957.
A few days ago I got a Facebook message from Alfonso Annunziata. The message had no subject line, and was only one line long:
Hello Linda, why are you a fan of The Undertaker...
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A few days ago I got a Facebook message from Alfonso Annunziata. The message had no subject line, and was only one line long:
Hello Linda, why are you a fan of The Undertaker...
Read more on Mixtape
posted by Robert Sloon at 11:32 AM
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