"The carnival mentality seriously, solemnly dedicates itself to the concept of waste, ephemera, of built-in obsolescence, but this is not the built-in obsolescence of manufacture but of art, because in Carnival the creative energy is strictly regulated to its own season. Last year’s intricate sculptures are discarded as immediately valueless when it is midnight on Shrove Tuesday …"
pg 55 Critcial Perspectives on Derek Walcott by Robert D. Hameer
"And every year we dance and sing,
And every year we kill the king,
Because the old king must be slain
For the new king to rise again. "
from "Batai" by Derek Walcott (Unpublished manuscript in author's files)
No comments:
Post a Comment