Can’t Hardly Wait

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Some random associations from a picture I took this Sunday.

Budding.

Can’t hardly wait.

Spring Awakening.

Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind who in 1906 gave us a play criticizing the sexually repressed society with depictions of group masturbation and other subjects that scandalized theatre goers.

This quote attributed to Wedekind which made me chuckle because now whenever some trivial disaster happens in my otherwise mundane life, I think, “Yeah, a blog post has written itself!”

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

 

The Lulu Plays by Wedekind.

Lulu, the complicated, contradictory femme fatal and victim, in a play that scandalized the audiences in the late 19th / early 20th century with its nudity, implied and not so implicit sex act, rampant confessions of lust and obsession, and an openly lesbian character.

Louise Brooks. Playing the role of Lulu in the movie adaptation of Pandora’s Box.

Louise Brooks. Writing a memoir many decades afterwards, so uncannily described how we feel now when we sit in front of our computers and pour our hearts out…

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it – learning to write – but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are “like” everybody – that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough – beauty…

 

 

 

 

54 thoughts on “Can’t Hardly Wait”

  2. Jen @ NathanRising

    I love spring!! All the newness and beauty and things that smell good… And then summer will come and ruin it all with its thick, suffocating Tennessee humidity. I’ll be enjoying every last minute of spring, that’s for sure. Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
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  5. Ameena

    Frank Wedekind is a brilliant man…I was dealt a bad card with a tech-obsessed husband and a demanding child. At least I’ve learned to exploit them on my blog!

    I a bit crushed at the reality that I am like everybody else…despite thinking that my parents were right – I was better. Simply because my last name began with “A.” Do you see what kind of crazy things my parents taught me? It’s no wonder I am the way that I am.
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  8. Nance

    Louise Brooks is my kinda WO-man!!

    And, didn’t she just nail it? First, you’re better than anyone. Then, you’re worse…etc. And it isn’t until you just give up entirely on both extremes that you become useful. That was entirely my approach to psychotherapy, that everyone who came in the door had been put through one of those wringers or both of them and sorely needed to be accepted by someone else who was neither better nor worse than they.

    ‘Course, people paid me to be that brilliant, so it was easy. This blogging thing, which I do for free, is somehow harder. And how the hell can that be?
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  13. MacDougal Street Baby

    Don’t know ’bout you but this Spring Awakening has been a bit fickle. Two weeks ago it was 70 degrees and a few days later it snowed. I thought, this is what menopause must be like.

    Interesting stuff here. I lived down the street from Providence Playhouse my entire life and never went once. How’s that for pathetic? I wish my gumption had been better directed.

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  24. Dufmanno

    Ahhhhhhhhh! You’re back!!
    And with something fantastic and thought provoking and completely unashamedly true.
    That wasn’t even a sentence but we will just keep going.
    Always when I wrote there was an odd disconnect between me and my subject matter because I wasn’t comfortable exposing anything too personal about myself or those around me.
    And now?
    Still a little nervous but much more comfortable with personal details.
    I know this post was about so much more than that but I felt compelled to blurt that out!
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