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Finale: An Essay in Fifty Centuries of Synthesis

Finale: An Essay in Fifty Centuries of Synthesis FINALE An Essay in Fifty Centuries of Synthesis Miroslav Krlez=a Translated by Tomislav Brlek The position of mankind in the Universe, elevation 313. A normal scenic section of a bulwark with trenches, stockades, and cannons. On the one hand, as if Wallenstein were laying siege to a fort in the Thirty Years War, and on the other, a post at any Russo-Japanese front around Liaoyang or Port Arthur in 1904–05 or during the First Imperialist War 1914–1918. Above elevation 313, the open celestial callote with zodiacs and a starry sky spreading in a nocturnal July horizon with glistening aestival planets in a wide range between Orion and Sirius. This play of light is being interrupted by short-lasting blinks of sunny daylight and a dark stormy nocturnal darkness with a baleful wind whistling. The daily and nocturnal lightings alternate at high pace, as if the whole post at elevation 313 rotated in a crystal ball, illuminated for a moment by a solar searchlight or wrapped in the veils of night. A trench on the front-line. Soldiers in every costume of centuries past. From a Roman cavalry legionnaire with a red horse tail on his helmet, to a Hungarian hussar http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2003 Tomislav Brlek
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/152028103322491809
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Abstract

FINALE An Essay in Fifty Centuries of Synthesis Miroslav Krlez=a Translated by Tomislav Brlek The position of mankind in the Universe, elevation 313. A normal scenic section of a bulwark with trenches, stockades, and cannons. On the one hand, as if Wallenstein were laying siege to a fort in the Thirty Years War, and on the other, a post at any Russo-Japanese front around Liaoyang or Port Arthur in 1904–05 or during the First Imperialist War 1914–1918. Above elevation 313, the open celestial callote with zodiacs and a starry sky spreading in a nocturnal July horizon with glistening aestival planets in a wide range between Orion and Sirius. This play of light is being interrupted by short-lasting blinks of sunny daylight and a dark stormy nocturnal darkness with a baleful wind whistling. The daily and nocturnal lightings alternate at high pace, as if the whole post at elevation 313 rotated in a crystal ball, illuminated for a moment by a solar searchlight or wrapped in the veils of night. A trench on the front-line. Soldiers in every costume of centuries past. From a Roman cavalry legionnaire with a red horse tail on his helmet, to a Hungarian hussar

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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ArtMIT Press

Published: Sep 1, 2003

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