Re: Should Dr who come with a health warning?

Charles E. Hardwidge wrote:
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As for my < SNIP GIBBERISH > i thought the folks here might have
some appreciation for the less than obvious, but there again,
maybe not. Who are we to attempt an understanding of the program.

Sometimes one must grasp the obvious, grasshopper. Indeed, the "obvious" is
gurning at the piano and doing the can-can to the applause of a rapturous
boozed up crowd in a smoke filled room with gaudy wallpaper and you're
missing it by about 400 years and 12,000 miles.

You speak of atmosphere, a mood in which to escape our cares.

Yes we could remain on the surface, in step with our fellows, doing
what seems too obvious to question. Idle as the obvious became the mundane, a life robbed of its meaning, routine before thought. Just
doing what we were made to do, never questioning - why?

The less obvious would have us question the latest fashions set
before our doting kings. You remember him, with his new cloths?
Our news cloths, a science where knowledge is made to confound
our understanding, taking as read, books whose authors we are in
no position to question.

The less obvious would have us peeping behind the curtains, like
they did in Oz. See him with his trumpet, as just another one of
us. But no, its back to the obvious, boozy smoky oblivious.
wallowing in atmosphere, drowning in a mood of quiet disaffection.

If we fill the quiet with illusions, champion our wayward distractions,
stay on the surface with our rip-roaring attractions, we may win
the mood and save the day.


If John Smith can lay waste to your entire discourse with a single pen
stroke you're not up to much are you? This apparently unremarkable dolt with no social skills has shown himself to be a master of the very highest
philosophy with a sense of timing only matched but never exceeded by life
long practitioners of the theatrical arts. Such a find - such a rare genius
discovered in our midst and you carry serenely on like an over-fussy French
clock incapable of telling the correct time? Shame. Shame on you.

H'and now. Leydeez an' gen'lemen. Hi present to you. The master of action. A moon that shifts the tides of ze 'uman heart. Zis star wich outshines the limelight. The ONE... The ONLY. JOHN SMITH.

[applause]


Me thinks you flatter to ....

Serious question time: Are there any works you know of which
deliberately used the ideas of 'Dissonance'? Either to explain theory
and phenomena to an appreciative audience, or the as a mechanism in
a story to manipulate an unappreciative audience. 'Gaslight' comes
closed, but im not sure you would call that out and out Dissonance,
not in any scientific sense.
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