Profane tmesis
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Troutian idea pulp. All stories my own or found in the back of a cave. Free if you can get them home. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ writing.exchange/@ptmesis, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
![At the age of 20, she made her West End debut in Hair[13] on 27 September 1968, remaining in the cast until March 1970.[14] While also being an understudy for the character of Sheila,[15] she played a member of the tribe in the chorus,[15] for which role she was required to be naked on stage in one scene.[10] In 1971, she appeared in the ill-fated musical about premature ejaculation, Maybe That's Your Problem.[16] She also appeared as an urchin in the film Oliver![17] Over the next decade, she played roles in various musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar; Nuts; Grease, in which she played the lead role of Sandy from 1973 to 1974; Billy, from 1974 to 1975 playing Rita;[13][18] and The Boyfriend, as Maisie (1975–1976).[14] She had a minor role as a barmaid in the 1978 sex comedy film Adventures of a Plumber's Mate.[19]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6wwhjw3foyrcixpxg4kjkg6e/bafkreicd6yev2yr5reoed2qfmp4qdfuerctxdet4tdzv46g7tiwkvpqs5a)
![It is useless to list the examples; one can only denounce the duplicity of the fictions of the former regime, which can't be believed and were believed. It will be said that the public's lack of sophistication is enough to explain the contradiction; I believe that the cause is more profound. Coleridge spoke of the "willing suspension of disbelief," that is, poetic faith; Samuel Johnson said, in defense of Shakespeare, that the spectators at a tragedy do not believe they are in Alexandria in the first act and Rome in the second but submit to the pleasure of a fiction. Similarly, the lies of a dictatorship are neither believed nor disbelieved; they pertain to an intermediate plane, and their purpose is to conceal or justify sordid or atrocious realities. They pertain to the pathetic or the clumsily sentimental. Happily, for the enlightenment and security of the Argentines, the current regime has understood that the function of government is not to inspire pathos.[99]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6wwhjw3foyrcixpxg4kjkg6e/bafkreicbdaf4k3bjuqa4cdgqbyvi4zx4nkjv7rx5lqvtthadrdw6w7dey4)
![Nazism suffers from unreality, like Erigena's hell. It is uninhabitable; men can only die for it, lie for it, wound and kill for it. No one, in the intimate depths of his being, can wish it to triumph. | shall risk this conjecture: Hitler wants to be defeated. Hitler is blindly collaborating with the inevitable armies that will annihilate him, as the metal vultures and the dragon (which must have known that they were monsters) collaborated, mysteriously, with Hercules."[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6wwhjw3foyrcixpxg4kjkg6e/bafkreihjllzxzqqjgtdnnqreb7nhgeq6wjzuyy2usevrv2iggi6cbowqjy)
