Scenes From a Broken Hand: Funny, He Doesn't Look Manchurian

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Funny, He Doesn't Look Manchurian

Fasten your seat belts, children. It's going to be a bumpy ride from now till election day. The craziness begins:

Barack Obama is the new man, of course. His mixed race is a symbol of that....But maybe it's not so simple....I don't know how Barack Obama's parents met. But the Kincaid article referenced above makes a very convincing case that Obama's family, later,(mid 1970s) in Hawaii, had close relations with a known black communist intellectual.

Oh, just go read it. It gets battier and scarier, the deeper into it you read.

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Scenes from a Broken Hand

CHESTER:
This monk I knew in Thailand... amazing man. He was always talking about these veils that stand between us and reality—and how you had to push them back to win the Hide and Seek.

JIM:
Hide and Seek?

MORDECAI:
It's a game, Pogo—the one I'm playing with myself—my real self, deep down.

CHESTER:
No, no. God, or the world, or whatever is out there, is playing it--with all of us. See, God is like this tremendous hand, and we, all of us, everything, are like the fingers. What God does is, he splits himself up into all these different parts, all these fingers: plants, fish, people, rocks—and then—this is the amazing part— he forgets! He forgets what he's done. He plays a game with himself, see? Hide and Seek! That's what the veils are for—so he can forget—so we can forget where it all came from. We see the fingers, but we never see the hand.

from Scenes From a Broken Hand,
a play by Andrew Ordover