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JUST before I went to see Seneca's Oedipus last night, while I was having dinner, I heard about a fire that broke out early yesterday morning in the home of some friends of mine. Everybody made it out safely except for the cat, Porky, who was that rare animal which makes its way through the world with both saintly charity and sparkling good humor. We were very sad, all of us looking down at our plates. It was a small tragedy, perhaps an inversion of the Aristotelian "larger than life" mode, but we were exalted just the same. Until...
Harpo's production of Oedipus makes a similar statement about the bogus exaltation of human tragedy to cathartic spectacle, wherein great men fall from pinnacles in the all-seeing determinist universe of the Fates. Director Laurence Senelick has chosen the Seneca version over the traditional Sophocles "to remove the play from the realms of both Freudian psychology and aloof neo-classicism." This may also mean that he has chosen a play which, because of its gore and violence, leads to a denial that there is anything more in suffering than suffering; a denial that tragedy can be uplifting in transcending...
...novel to turn the dentist's chair into an allegory of life. Absolutist revolutions, religions and moralities have all foundered on the problems of pain and how to cure it. Now Grass's dentist steps forward, an apostle of technology, a priest of the "relative." He reduces philosophy to Seneca plus hygiene. He is the exact fulfillment of Spengler's prophecy that absolute engineering is man's historical destiny...
...Seneca religion is strongly oriented towards nature. "You look up at what grows; you see the trees; you see the leaves, everything that grows. That's our religion-I guess you could call it our pleasure," Hill said...
...emphasized the demise of agriculture as a major source of income for the Seneca in recent years. "When you can make $30 a day in the city, why work yourself to death on a farm?" he said...