Addendum to pathological projects |
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OPENING SCENEBest operatic practice is of course to compose the overture once you have already written the whole of the opera. Here however we’ll do things in reverse, and so please find below our opening scene …….. THE CURTAIN RISES....Reports are coming in of a recently escaped inmate from a nearby asylum who is directing the traffic on a major road going through the capital city. He is dressed up as Napoleon and is directing the on coming traffic with a feather duster. A urgent meeting was quickly held of world famous experts ; after several discussions they agreed on the following: “It is strongly recommended that this fellow put on a police hat and replace the feather duster with a truncheon.” Faced with this phenomena of “pathological projects”, the observable attitude of specialists and the academic world does not seem to us to differ significantly from that of the experts in our story. |
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Faced with this phenomena of “pathological projects”, the observable attitude of specialists and of the academic world does not seem to us to differ significantly from that of the experts in our story. |
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