Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Bigger than Wrestlemania XXII: Mickey Mouse takes on William Shakespeare
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In a 1963 interview, Charles Bukowski was asked: “What influence do you feel Mickey Mouse has had on the American imagination?
Buk answered: “Tough. Tough, indeed. I would say that Mickey Mouse has had a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says ‘what’ about the American public? Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.”
Buk also sez: “As we go on with our lives, we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.”
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Mikio Naruse sez: “From the earliest age I have thought that the world we live in betrays us—this thought remains with me.”
(Thanks, Greg)
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