Death Rehearsal
Living is dying, an unscripted, unconscious rehearsal for the premiere of death—one show only for each individual serving the life sentence, cyclical reruns for collective humanity. A long, long time ago, on the Fourth of July in the year Two Thousand, the ceremony of (Un)Naturalization has render...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Conserveries mémorielles
2010
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Living is dying, an unscripted, unconscious rehearsal for the premiere of death—one show only for each individual serving the life sentence, cyclical reruns for collective humanity. A long, long time ago, on the Fourth of July in the year Two Thousand, the ceremony of (Un)Naturalization has rendered me an American citizen and, simultaneously, a ghost whose previous incarnation of the past century hails from Asia, specifically Taipei. And it is to Taipei that my ghost returns nightly to the... |
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