1/ Holy homage to my hometown: Coney Island, Brooklyn
Just GORGEOUS over-the-top prose, artful alliteration by EE Cummings written in 1926 Vanity Fair
(ht @C4COMPUTATION)
theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/3…
Just GORGEOUS over-the-top prose, artful alliteration by EE Cummings written in 1926 Vanity Fair
(ht @C4COMPUTATION)
theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/3…
2/ The incredible temple of pity +terror, mirth & amazement...fusion of the circus + the theatre....
...It resembles the theatre, in that it fosters every known species of ILLUSION.
...Whereas at the theatre we merely are deceived, at Coney we deceive ourselves.
...It resembles the theatre, in that it fosters every known species of ILLUSION.
...Whereas at the theatre we merely are deceived, at Coney we deceive ourselves.
3/ “miracle mesh, so to speak, with the theatre and with the circus...”
THE AUDIENCE IS THE PERFORMANCE...
THE AUDIENCE IS THE PERFORMANCE...
4/“A trillion smells; the tinkle + snap of shooting galleries; the magically sonorous exhortations of barkers + ballyhoomen;
...the intricate clowning of enormous deceptions
—surrounded by the rhythmic mutations of the ocean...+ oblivion-colored rush of the roller coaster
...the intricate clowning of enormous deceptions
—surrounded by the rhythmic mutations of the ocean...+ oblivion-colored rush of the roller coaster
