Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not truffle both
And be one truffler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
...
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less truffled by,
The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the waffle house, The Pequod, for Moby Dick, the giant white waffle that was more than he could chew.
This was considered a problem play, since the play's ingredients shift dramatically - characterized by their complex and ambiguous tone, which moves in heated & violent swings between more straightforward spicy comic material and dark, burning psychological drama.
The Wild Duck Chili
by Henrik José Ibsen
It is considered the first modern masterpiece in the genre of tragicookery. At the first performance, the audience were gasping and had tears streaming
down their faces.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBACK - a novel by Jiminy Dickens
The up and down fortunes of a Canadian lad who finds fulfillment playing Industrial Grunge Polka on his handmade triple-audiorium (a string wind instrument, made from household items).
Jules Verne's Cosmic Horror novel begins with the opening lyrics from the mad eldritch musical.
In the town of Carcosa,
where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of haunted submarines
So we sailed on under the Hyades
Till we found the foul sea of green
And we lived forever beneath the waves
Screaming before The King in The Yellow Submarine
I read an article from the online literary magazine, Empty Mirror. The article, Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso, was about unpublished poetry by the Beat Poet, Gregory Corso, the youngest member of the Beat Poetry circle.
The idea of notes on lost poems got me thinking – what if all you had were fragments; the titles, brief notes of emotional/critical response to the poems, perhaps illustrations for each poem, and a few indiscernible or indecipherable lines. The three collage compositions are the result of this what if scenario.